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America’s Voice ICYMI: New York Times: “7 Sailors Emerged From Diverse Backgrounds to Pursue a Common Cause” LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and Ex-AG Eric Holder Support California’s Pro-Immigrant and Pro-Public Safety SB54 Bill Trump and Sessions’ Justice Department Considers Supporting Texas SB4,  “Show Me Your Papers” Bill It’s World... Continue »

America’s Voice On Father’s Day, New York Times Chronicles Plight of Father Fighting Deportation John Kelly Thinks Immigration Judges’ Orders Should Be Final, Thomas Homan Thinks Immigrants Get Due Process; Here’s Why Neither is True As ICE Continues Indiscriminate Deportations, More Reminders of Toll on American Families, Communities, and... Continue »

Digby: “Kelly is a genuine Trump guy” In her latest piece for Salon, Heather Digby Parton dives into Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly’s all-too-eager implementation of President Donald Trump’s radical immigration policies. It’s a must read. The article is excerpted below and available online here. Over the weekend,... Continue »

America’s Voice ICYMI: Must Read WSJ Op-Ed on Consequences of Trump Immigration Enforcement on One Small Pennsylvania Town San Antonio Voters Elect City Councilman Ron Nirenberg as Mayor ICYMI: “John Kelly the “grownup”? Forget it — Homeland Security chief turns out to be another Trump zealot” Trump y su... Continue »

America’s Voice ICYMI: David Leopold: “No Secretary Kelly, The Immigration Law Does Not Deport People, You Do” ICYMI: Houston Chronicle: “Out of Time: For a Houston Family, ICE crackdown shatters the good life they knew” ICYMI: The New Yorker: “Why Police Chiefs Oppose Texas’s New Anti-Immigrant Law” 273 Organizations... Continue »

San Antonio and Austin sue Texas over SB 4 This week in Texas, San Antonio and Austin sued the state over the anti-immigrant and discriminatory​ “show me your papers” law, ​SB 4 . The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) formally filed the lawsuit on behalf of San... Continue »

In a new, must read piece, Jamelle Bouie of Slate documents the steady, Trump-inspired rise in hate crimes and violence nationally. His piece on this year’s hate crimes concludes: We are living in an age of political racism and mainstreamed hate, where white supremacists act and organize in the... Continue »

Advocates have not been happy with DHS Secretary John Kelly and his blind implementation of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Neither are Senate Democrats, according to a new Huffington Post piece by Elise Foley. In January, 37 Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kelly. But what they thought they would get... Continue »

Taking Stock of Hate Fueled Events in Oregon, Texas, and Across the Land During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump inspired acts of bigotry, intolerance, violence, and harassment with such disturbing frequency that we started tracking them on a Trump Hate Map.  While nativism, racism, and accompanying harassment and bloodshed... Continue »

America’s Voice DHS Secretary Kelly On Kids Who Flee Violence of Central America and Seek Safety and Family in America: “This is a Huge Scam” The New DHS M.O.: Dine, Discriminate and Detain GOP-Led House Judiciary Committee Has Passed “Mass Deportation and Child Incarceration Act of 2017” This Week... Continue »