Groups Called on Members of Congress to Stand Strong Against Extreme Immigration Policies Washington, DC — Today, leading immigration policy experts and advocates from New York City, Boston, and Los Angeles called on Congress to pass much-needed funding for cities to improve the asylum process and support asylum seekers...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: The Republican theater of treating Immigration as an electoral weapon continues to hold military aid to...
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Washington, DC — There’s renewed attention to the Senate supplemental funding negotiations following a failed procedural vote yesterday and given the stakes and urgency of aid to Ukraine and other allies. As Politico detailed, “Democrats believe it’s misleading to argue that Democrats are getting Ukraine funding in exchange for...
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Washington, DC – Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, explicitly endorsed the great replacement theory – a white nationalist and antisemitic conspiracy theory that has inspired multiple deadly terrorist attacks over the last several years. Later in the day, Donald Trump participated in a live interview with Fox News’s...
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Link to Audio Recording of Today’s Call HERE Washington, DC — On a press call held this afternoon, national security experts joined border and immigration policy advocates and experts to assess the ongoing Capitol Hill supplemental funding negotiations and what’s at stake. Speakers on today’s call highlighted why aid...
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Washington, DC – A revealing set of comments from Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and new reporting on Senate Republicans’ demands underscore the bad faith and extreme policy Republicans are insisting on in exchange for funding our allies in Ukraine. Among his comments yesterday, Senator Cornyn noted: “It’s a point...
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Washington, DC – Reports this morning indicate that negotiations to include permanent and damaging asylum and immigration policy changes in the Senate supplemental funding package have broken down. The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “Once again, Republicans are demonstrating they would rather...
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CHAOS VS. ORDERLINESS: THE SENATE CONTEMPLATES GUTTING ASYLUM All week, the focus was on the U.S. Senate where a group of Senators, including Democrats Chris Murphy (CT) and Michael Bennet (CO), were negotiating with Republicans and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) about how – and if – to add measures to...
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