Listen to a complete recording of the call HERE Washington, D.C. — Saturday, August 3, will be the fifth anniversary of the shooting at an El Paso, Texas Walmart, when a white nationalist motivated by anti-immigrant fears and conspiracies killed 23 people. Local and national leaders who track white...
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Washington, DC —Donald Trump’s offensive appearance at a conference of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) dominated follow-up news coverage (see here for the immediate reaction of Vanessa Cárdenas, as quoted by the New York Times). Of note and worth specific mention was the way the attendees rejected...
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Listen to relevant Greg Sargent and AV’s Douglas Rivlin podcast discussion HERE Washington, DC —Yesterday was a pivotal day for the politics of immigration and the trajectory of the 2024 presidential campaign. Amidst a Trump campaign attack ad and ongoing right wing disinformation about her immigration and border responsibilities...
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Washington, DC —The stakes, contrasts, and strategies of the presidential campaign are in sharp relief as we hit 100 days out. On immigration, xenophobic lies, disinformation, and related ugliness is central to the right wing and Republican political strategy and they are openly asserting and promising unsparing mass roundups,...
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AMERICA’S VOICE REACTS TO BIDEN-HARRIS ANNOUNCEMENT On Sunday, July 21, President Biden announced that he was withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for President. In bilingual statements, America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas thanked the president for his years...
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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: With his difficult decision to end his re-election bid, President Joe Biden demonstrated patriotism and humility, something few politicians...
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Last week, Americans watched as former President Trump took the stage at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in what his aides promised would be a unifying speech. However, what the American people saw was the same old Donald Trump spewing the same old hateful, divisive anti-immigrant rhetoric. And...
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Washington, DC —During a joint Fox News interview with J.D. Vance, Donald Trump again made clear that his proposed “largest deportation operation in the history of our country” would be unsparing and indiscriminate in targeting immigrants, noting: “As soon as we grab, perhaps, we take a woman with two...
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Washington, DC — Attacks against the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris include the false assertion she was in charge of border policy in recent years. This message is flat-out wrong (as multiple fact checks such as this good article from Isabela Dias in Mother Jones make clear). Yet...
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Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting: “We thank President Biden for his service. Throughout his career, he has shown his belief that America is strongest and at its best when our politics and policy are informed by our...
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