Washington – As Donald Trump makes vile, anti-immigrant lies the centerpiece of his closing argument and proposes a dangerous vision for the nation centered on violence and retribution against citizens and non-citizens alike, some of the most powerful questions that have held him to account and captured this dynamic...
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WASHINGTON — En una llamada de prensa realizada esta tarde (grabación disponible aquí), el excongresista Luis Gutiérrez, la comentarista y estratega Maria Cardona, la directora ejecutiva de America’s Voice Vanessa Cárdenas y el director de la Iniciativa de Investigación sobre Inmigración David Dyssegaard Kallick se reunieron para reaccionar y...
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WASHINGTON — On a press call held this afternoon (recording here), former Congressman Luis Gutiérrez, commentator and strategist Maria Cardona, America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas, and Immigration Research Initiative Director David Dyssegaard Kallick gathered to react and assess to the Trump Univision town hall last night and Trump’s...
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Washington, DC — Last week, VP Kamala Harris joined a Univision town hall in Las Vegas, where she fielded questions from undecided Latino voters, highlighted her support for a popular, balanced immigration approach and engaged in a powerful and empathetic exchange over legalization with a questioner (read AV’s recap...
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Washington, DC — In the final sprint to Election Day, Donald Trump observers across the board are raising the alarm that he has become increasingly unstable and weird while more fully embracing fascistic rhetoric and policies and is leaning even more heavily into a vile and anti-immigrant closing argument....
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Washington, DC — The contrasts between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on immigration – and what it says about their visions for the country – are particularly sharp and consequential this week following the VP Harris Univision town hall held last night in Las Vegas (see below for key...
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Read Ron Brownstein’s new column in full HERE featuring Vanessa Cárdenas quote: “It is a missed opportunity for not to lean more into the consequences of this mass-deportation slogan.” Washington, DC — In a new column for The Atlantic, “Kamala Harris’s Muted Message on Mass Deportation,” leading political...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: As the November 5th election approaches, Donald Trump’s attacks against immigrants and the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, are...
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Watch recording of yesterday’s press briefing ahead of DACA hearing in Fifth Circuit HERE Washington, DC — On Thursday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is scheduled to hold a hearing on the case targeting DACA (Texas v. United States). This is the latest step in...
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A recording of the press call can be found here WASHINGTON — Ahead of the New Orleans 5th Circuit of Appeals’ hearing on DACA, litigators, advocates, and impacted individuals convened a press call to discuss important developments in the lawsuits against the program (Texas v. United States) and the...
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