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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Washington, DC — At the end of a busy week of negotiations on the President’s emergency supplemental budget request to fund aid to Ukraine and other allies and to fund border and asylum measures, we are struck by how many reporters and commentators are adopting the Republican frame to...
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Nov 30, 2023
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: Now that a group of Republican and Democratic senators are considering undermining asylum laws, exactly as...
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Washington, DC — Republicans continue to characterize that they are pushing for “border security” measures in the supplemental funding negotiations. For example, as Senator John Thune (R-SD) stated in a Senate floor speech this week: “Senators Graham, Lankford, and Cotton have been working to craft a set of border...
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11 Senators Sign onto New Joint Statement Highlighting Concerns with Senate Negotiations Involving Senator Bennet, While Must-Read Greg Sargent Column Captures Damaging Political and Policy Implications of Debate Washington, DC — Key Senators, outside observers, and policy experts are speaking out forcefully against the trajectory and implications of permanent...
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Washington, DC — Key Senators, outside observers, and policy experts are speaking out forcefully against the trajectory and implications of permanent asylum and immigration policy provisions being negotiated in the Senate during the supplemental funding negotiations. A new joint statement from 11 Democratic Senators, excerpted below, highlights concerns about...
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11 Senators Sign onto New Joint Statement Highlighting Concerns with Senate Negotiations Involving Senator Murphy, While Must-Read Greg Sargent Column Captures Damaging Political and Policy Implications of Debate Washington, DC — Key Senators, outside observers, and policy experts are speaking out forcefully against the trajectory and implications of permanent...
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