divide and distract

Blaming Immigrants and Foreigners Central to His Re-Election Narrative President Trump is setting up a re-election narrative that will emphasize how his decisive actions against foreigners prevented Covid-19 from being even worse for Americans. He’ll tout that barring entry to travelers from China and his hardline policies at the... Continue »

A recording of the call is available here As the Trump administration continues to mishandle the outbreak of COVID-19 and use nativism to distract from its failures, a panel of experts and advocates gathered earlier today on a press call to talk about how the struggle to protect public... Continue »

“Divide-and-Distract” Strategy of Xenophobia Will Not Draw Attention Away from His Deadly Mismanagement of Our Public Health Crisis Spreading xenophobia will not contain the spread of the coronavirus. Nevertheless, President Trump and allies are ramping up their efforts to distract attention from their own mismanagement of the ongoing public... Continue »

With Trump More Interested in Xenophobic Optics than in Urgently-Needed Measures to Address Public Health Crisis, Congress Should Reject this Divide-and-Distract Maneuver CNN is reporting  that the Trump Administration is requesting $567 million to fund, in part, up to nine “migrant quarantine facilities along the Southwest border, including repurposed... Continue »

“We need a national mobilization to ramp up on testing, hospital beds, ventilators, masks and protective equipment. Instead, Trump ramps up xenophobia.” Recapping President Trump’s decision to shut down the southern border to all asylum seekers, CNN’s Evan Perez, Geneva Sands, and Priscilla Alvarez report: The administration is pushing... Continue »

The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: Just hours after some in the mainstream media heralded his new tone at an afternoon press conference, President Trump tweeted about the ‘Chinese virus.’ Puleeze. Before we ooh and ah about the changed tone of a... Continue »

In a new piece – a translation of his column running in several prominent US Spanish-language outlets , columnist David Torres, an Advisor at America’s Voice, delves into Trump’s relentless nativist campaign to divide and distract the American people in the midst of a national health pandemic. Torres refutes... Continue »

This week, voters in Alabama, California, North Carolina, and Texas — among ten other Super Tuesday states — are selecting primary nominees for local, state, and national races. Republican candidates, as well as GOP organizations and PACs, have been blanketing social media channels and airwaves with racist and xenophobic... Continue »

This week, voters in Alabama, California, North Carolina, and Texas — among ten other Super Tuesday states — are selecting primary nominees for local, state, and national races. Candidates (as well as organizations and PACs) have been blanketing social media channels and airwaves with racist and xenophobic ads. The... Continue »

The American Public Supports Immigrants and Reform Tonight, Democratic presidential candidates will again gather on a debate stage to highlight their vision for America and make the case for why they are best equipped to defeat Donald Trump. Here are reminders why immigration needs to be an essential part... Continue »