Washington, D.C. — On Thursday, America’s Voice convened lawmakers, law enforcement leaders, and advocates to sound the alarm on the Trump-Miller administration’s deadly deportation machine, following the recent ICE killings in Houston and Biddeford, Maine. Speakers warned that federal agents, armed with billions in congressional funding and emboldened by...
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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: The photo of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo standing in front of his 52nd birthday cake evokes not only sadness over...
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Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are running a mass deportation machine defined by cruelty, lawlessness, and deaths. Flush with billions in congressional funding, ICE is accelerating their indiscriminate surge into cities and towns nationwide, prioritizing random arrests over human life, tearing families and communities apart, and pushing workers out...
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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the first of two days of hearings on his confirmation to lead the Justice Department permanently. The hearing comes eight days after ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston...
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Washington, DC – Following Monday’s deadly shooting in Maine, the latest reporting confirms that Johan Sebastián, a 25-years-old husband and father who was authorized to work in the United States, was killed by an ICE agent. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin first told Senator Angus King that...
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Washington, DC – Today, an ICE agent shot and killed a person in Biddeford, Maine. ICE and DHS have offered no explanation for why the agent opened fire. This marks the second time in six days that an ICE agent has killed someone in the United States. On July...
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Washington, DC – Earlier this week, an ICE agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as he drove to pick up his construction crew in Houston’s Magnolia Park. ICE claimed he rammed an agency vehicle and admitted he wasn’t even the man agents were looking for. In reporting out...
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Washington, DC – On Tuesday morning, masked ICE agents in unmarked vehicles stopped Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as he drove to pick up his construction crew in Houston’s Magnolia Park. Minutes later, an agent shot and killed him. Salgado Araujo had lived in the U.S. for 35 years and, according...
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