A recording of the call is available here. Earlier today, immigration experts and advocates gathered on a press call to discuss solutions that would provide a much needed reprieve on our border. As the Trump administration continues to fail to provide adequate solutions, and can only exacerbate the problem...
Continue
»
Apr 1, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC– Si todavía pone en duda cuán envalentonado está Donald Trump tras presuntamente ser “exonerado” de colusión en la trama rusa, para muestras varios botones de los pasados días y horas: amenazó con “cerrar” la frontera con México por la crisis humanitaria que él mismo ha creado y...
Continue
»
What a Real Alternative Looks Like The Trump strategy for our southern border is an epic failure. The deterrence-only, build-a-wall, send-the-troops, separate-the-families, lock-em-up, border-centric response to a regional refugee and migration challenge is blowing up in their faces. Now they are trying to blame Congress and get rewarded for...
Continue
»
Tuesday House Override Vote on Emergency Declaration Another Chance for GOP Lawmakers to get on the Right Side of History and the Constitution Tomorrow, the House of Representatives is again scheduled to vote on the resolution to block President Trump’s emergency declaration, this time giving lawmakers the chance to...
Continue
»
Friday, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC reported that the Trump administration meticulously tracked pregnancies, reproductive cycles, and details of how immigrant girls became pregnant, among other personal information. Maddow noted that some entries were made in June of 2018, during the height of the Trump family separation crisis in which...
Continue
»
Mar 15, 2019
In a 59-41 vote, the Senate joined the House in voting on a resolution to reject Trump’s fake national emergency. Donald Trump has said that he will veto this resolution, and it unclear whether the House and Senate have the two-thirds majority to overrule him. But, this is a...
Continue
»
Trump Organization Must Be Investigated and Workers Must be Protected; Trump Supporters “Feel Betrayed” by the Depths of Trump’s Hypocrisy Yesterday, Joshua Partlow of the Washington Post reported that Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Joaquin Castro, alongside Ruben Gallego, Nanette Diaz Barragan, Adriano Espaillat, and Veronica Escobar, sent...
Continue
»
Over the past week, we’ve seen new levels of hypocrisy from the Trump administration and congressional Republicans, as they bend over backwards to embrace Trump’s draconian immigration vision and the unpopular and unconstitutional power grab emergency declaration. According to Douglas Rivlin, Communications Director of America’s Voice, “The President’s brand...
Continue
»
How the Trump Admin has Abandoned Policies and Ignored Deterioration of Central American Governments at the Root of Problem Reports in today’s Washington Post and on NPR use preliminary, unreleased numbers from the Trump Administration to claim that there is an unprecedented increase in unauthorized or illegal entry into...
Continue
»
Yesterday’s House vote in favor of a resolution blocking President Trump’s unconstitutional, unpopular, and entirely fake national emergency was a sharp rebuke to Trump that sets up the resolution for Senate passage and amps up pressure on Senate Republicans to do the right thing. As America’s Voice Deputy Director...
Continue
»
