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Donald Trump nominated former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott for the new commissioner of the parent agency Customs and Border Protection (CBP), seeking the return of one of the most ardent defenders of the border policies from his first administration. Scott, a career official who was promoted by the... Continue »
Donald Trump and his incoming team have confirmed they’re moving forward with costly and “bloody” mass deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants as their signature policy of the second term. They are also getting the green light from the Republican-controlled Congress, as Sen. Lindsey Graham put it in a... Continue »
Donald Trump’s mass deportation team has been taking shape, and it is alarming, as expected. Trump has announced that he has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his nominee for secretary of Homeland Security, joining noted white nationalist Stephen Miller and former acting ICE director Thomas Homan to... Continue »
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: President-elect Donald Trump began to build the machine to implement his promise of mass deportations. Stephen Miller, intellectual author... Continue »
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: Republican Donald Trump’s win over the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, makes me question what can lead a country to... Continue »
Washington, DC — In a new America’s Voice en Español column, “Wake up, Boricuas, wake up Latinos — Trump’s prejudice makes no distinctions,” Maribel Hastings examines the vile rhetoric spewed throughout the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden and the implications for Puerto Rican voters in key states, Latinos... Continue »
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: If any doubt remains about what motivates the Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, witness the... Continue »
At the Trump campaign’s racist and authoritarian rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, speakers vetted by the campaign unleashed a torrent of rabidly xenophobic remarks, including an unhinged statement calling Puerto Rico, home to more than three million of our fellow Americans and an ancestral home to millions... Continue »
Washington, DC — Donald Trump is running the most vicious anti-immigrant presidential campaign of any major party nominee in modern U.S. history, making his closing argument all about the ugliest of lies about immigrants. Yet despite the relentless focus on anti-immigration themes, including Trump’s promise for the “largest” deportation... Continue »
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: A New York Times survey of Latino voters this past weekend, just a few weeks from the November 5... Continue »