Washington, DC – Tomorrow – August 15, 2023 – marks the 11th anniversary of the first day certain Dreamers could sign up for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Created under President Obama, DACA has been one of the few safeguards for undocumented migrants who face increasing threats from...
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Washington, DC – The anti-immigrant zealotry displayed by GOP politicians continues to harm immigrants. Over the weekend, a three-year-old child aboard a bus of migrants sent by Gov. Greg Abbott died heading from Texas to Chicago. This tragedy follows weeks of headlines about the relentless dehumanization and dangerous ill...
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NEW YORKER HIGHLIGHTS AV’S EXTREMISM RESEARCH The New Yorker magazine published a must-read piece this week by Stephania Taladrid on the anti-immigrant movement’s descent down the white nationalist rabbit hole. “The Legacy of the El Paso Shooting” highlights tracking research by America’s Voice on elected leaders’ use of white nationalist lies, including the “great replacement” conspiracy theory...
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Mario Carrillo: Texas GOP is the “tip of the spear” of broader Republican descent on immigration and “a danger to public safety for all Texans, a threat to core values we cherish, and a growing laughingstock outside their right wing bubble.” Washington, DC – The relentless anti-immigrant zealotry of...
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Opinion Pieces by Andrea Flores and Andrew Selee Underscore Success and Importance of Safe, Fair, Orderly Migration Pathways Washington, DC – Two leading experts have new and prominent opinion essays that highlight the importance of the Biden Administration’s safe, fair and orderly migration pathways, especially the parole programs and...
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The New Yorker Magazine and Congressional Delegation Document the Descent of the GOP Washington, DC – Yesterday, several Members of Congress traveled to Eagle Pass, Texas as part of a congressional delegation to explore the dehumanizing dangers inflicted by Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. The images and videos...
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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 death of the young Honduran man, Norlan Bayardo Herrera, just twenty years old, in the...
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Washington, DC – Republicans continue to tell one of their favorite nativist lies, falsely blaming immigrants and asylum seekers for the very real scourge of fentanyl. There is an urgent need to address the nation’s fentanyl crisis, but falsely conflating the issue as an immigration one distracts from solutions...
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Escalating Rhetoric will lead to Escalating Violence Washington, DC – In his relentless effort to define himself as an anti-immigrant hardliner for GOP primary audiences, Ron DeSantis hasn’t concerned himself with the consequences of his nativist words and policies. This includes the ongoing costs and harms from his signature...
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Washington, DC – The relentless anti-immigrant focus of both Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida and Governor Greg Abbott in Texas has led to both states enacting harmful anti-immigrant laws and policies that are both scapegoating and harming immigrants, both those arriving and those settled in the states. But what...
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