Washington, DC – More key voices – including from red states like Texas – are calling on Congress to deliver on legislation that provides permanent solutions for long-settled immigrants, including DACA recipients who are vulnerable to deportation and others like Dreamers, TPS holders and farm workers. 71 mayors advocating...
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Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case brought by the Republican-controlled states of Texas and Louisiana challenging the Biden administration’s ability to set common sense immigration enforcement priorities. Deporting all 11 million undocumented immigrants living and working in the U.S. is logistically...
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Washington, DC – Key voices are calling on Congress to deliver on legislation that provides permanent solutions for long-settled immigrants, including Dreamers and farm workers, before the end of the year. This growing chorus of voices calling for a legislative fix comes after an election cycle in which Republicans’...
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Washington, DC – The following is a statement from America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas, reacting to news of Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s threat to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: “At a time when the greatest domestic threat to national security in America is the rise of white nationalist extremism,...
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An editorial this week in the Dallas Morning News, “GOP misread the Latino vote in South Texas” highlights some of the Republican Party’s missteps and miscalculations when it came to messaging geared towards Latinos in Texas during this midterm election: “The Texas GOP expected big wins with Latino voters...
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Washington, DC – Today, Republican House Minority Leader and potential Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy will head to El Paso and the U.S./Mexico border to deliver a supposedly “major” announcement about DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Undoubtedly, he will engage in another set of border-related photo ops that are...
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Washington, DC – The horrific shooting at Colorado Springs’ LGBTQ+ Club Q this past weekend follows a sustained and growing pattern of vile right wing rhetoric that dehumanizes community members and courts political violence: the same dangerous pattern we’ve seen in attacks against the immigrant community and other violence...
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In the days since the 2022 midterm election, it has become increasingly clear that the GOP’s strategy of sowing fear and hate with regards to immigration has failed to deliver on their goals of both winning elections and shoring up support from Latino voters. From the Rio Grande Valley...
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