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The New York Times’ editorial board is out with a new piece slamming Trump’s asylum ban and self-made immigration crisis. In it, the board points out that Trump “creates nonexistent threats, generates manufactured fears and prepares exaggerated responses, all leading to a erosion of the rule of law, to... Continue »

Xenophobia Mostly Backfires, People of Color Show Up, and, Despite Trump’s Racist Attacks, Immigration and Pro-Immigrant Candidates Fare Well The 2018 results are mostly in, and the debate over what it all means has begun in earnest. Here are our initial takeaways: Trump and Trumpism suffered a significant setback:... Continue »

The 2018 midterms were awash in anti-immigrant ads because Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s divide and distract strategy was widely adopted by the GOP. But — contrary to some commentators who say that Democrats didn’t run on the issues — a number of Democrats flipped House seats with immigration reform... Continue »

America’s Voice Allied Organizations Discuss Latino Voting Behavior for 2018 Midterms Our Take on the 2018 Elections Pollsters, Civil Rights and Civic Engagement Organizations Analyze The American Election Eve Poll Resultados mixtos sobre Trump tras comicios de mitad de periodo Beto O’Rourke y la esperanza política Democrats DID Run... Continue »

America’s Voice There He Goes Again: Instead of Bringing Us Together to Solve  Problems, He’s Ripping Us Apart Steve King, the White Nationalist Ted Cruz Can’t Let Go Listen to the “A is for America” Podcast with Maribel Hastings and David Torres ICYMI: As Many Supporters Abandon White Nationalist... Continue »

Voters Must Reject These Incendiary Stunts by Trump and the GOP Greg Sargent at the Washington Post writes a must-read piece that captures the political and policy dimensions of Trump’s demagoguery on the caravan. Sargent’s piece is excerpted below and available in full here. President Trump is now in... Continue »

At a moment that calls for presidential leadership and serious policymaking, Trump’s response to the caravan and the challenge of Central American migration has been irresponsible, cynical and ineffective. As thousands of Hondurans head north in search of security and hope, Trump has reacted with politically motivated tweets, ugly... Continue »

In a new editorial, the Washington Post responds to Trump’s frenzied and cynical exploitation of the caravan. The Post’s editorial is below and available online here. With each passing day, President Trump makes clearer his delight in the political advantage he may extract from the migrant caravan heading north... Continue »

Some influential media observers, such as the Washington Post’s media columnist Margaret Sullivan, have criticized the media for repeating Trump’s lies about immigration and the caravan. As Sullivan wrote in a tweet accompanying her column, “By picking up the language of “caravan crisis” and “onslaught” — and by allowing... Continue »

“It’s a searing indictment of his presidency that he’s tougher on vulnerable brown people that seek safety than autocratic regimes that kill their opponents” With President Trump’s Twitter feed once more consumed with anti-immigrant fear-mongering, the following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: Just... Continue »