Washington, DC – Tomorrow, Donald Trump will hold a rally in Waco, Texas, amidst the 30-year anniversary of the siege of the Branch Davidian compound. The incident has long been an important symbol of the militia movement and other hard-right extremists. Timothy McVeigh drove to Waco to distribute far-right...
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Read the blog in full HERE Washington, DC – A new blog post from America’s Voice, “Bigotry Towards Chinese Immigrants, Republicans’ Latest Racist Political Attack on the Border,” highlights how Republicans and right wing media are stoking fears over an increase in Chinese nationals who are traveling to the...
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Washington, DC – Republicans are seeking to roll back child labor laws in numerous states despite the high-profile revelations of migrant children’s exploitation, yet they refuse to work on real solutions to modernize our immigration system and make it possible for immigrants to come with visas or to get...
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Washington, DC – Fresh reminders are in the news why fentanyl is not an immigration issue and that serious policies to address the crisis involve international trade, cooperation with Mexico, public health and treatment measures, as well as interdiction and screening at the ports of entry. This is...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: The countdown has begun to the end of Title 42 this coming May 11. The occasion...
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Read the new AV political report HERE Washington, DC – A new report from America’s Voice analyzes the GOP’s messaging strategy of demonizing immigrants during the 2022 midterms failed to deliver at the ballot box in November. “The GOP Investment in Nativism Failed to Deliver, Again: America’s Voice Report...
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More Reminders About the Costs and Consequences of GOP Nativism and Legislative Obstruction Washington, DC – In the newly released annual Economic Report of the President, the White House Council of Economic Advisors includes an unequivocal set of facts that immigrants and immigration reform are key to growing and...
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Washington, DC – Republicans are again whipping up manufactured anti-immigrant outrage to fuel their sham effort to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and lie about the Biden administration’s border record and vision. In this case, see GOP and right wing media’s burgeoning effort to highlight a disconnect between recent...
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Washington, DC – As he positions himself for a 2024 Republican primary run, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is defining himself by extremist stances and divisive grievance politics, including on immigration. Yet, as seen in the new collection of anti-immigrant state policies he is backing, the DeSantis desire to “own...
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Washington, DC – Today, House Republicans are holding another in their weekly drumbeat of congressional hearings about immigration and the border – their seventh official Republican Committee hearing on the subject in the first seven weeks of the GOP’s majority. Like the first six, today’s field hearing in McAllen,...
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