FOUR YEARS AFTER DEADLY ATTACK IN EL PASO, EXTREMIST RHETORIC CONTINUES This week marked four years since the horrific white nationalist-inspired attack in El Paso, which killed 23 people, injured 22 others, and left countless scarred. To remember those affected by this tragedy, as well as call out elected...
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Vanessa Cárdenas Reacts to Deaths in Rio Grande Near Gov. Greg Abbott’s Deployed Buoys Washington, DC – The ongoing anti-immigrant focus of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his Operation Lone Star have been recently condemned for reinstituting family separations, one of the darkest chapters in recent American history; for...
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Washington, DC – The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday that Texas has started to separate families at the border over the past month: “Since the early days of Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative, state troopers arresting migrants along the Rio Grande have been told to keep families together and...
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New sign-on letter from more than 160 organizations calls on congressional leadership “to unequivocally denounce white supremacist, anti-immigrant rhetoric and its use by Members of Congress” — Read the new letter HERE Access an audio recording of today’s press call HERE Washington, DC — On a press call held...
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Washington, DC – Following the sentencing of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooter and ahead of tomorrow’s fourth anniversary of the anti-immigrant terrorist attack in El Paso, TX that killed 23 people on August 3, 2019, America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas issued the following statement: “Instead of generating...
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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 lack of immigration reform at the legislative level limits the mechanisms through which people can...
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Washington, DC – Los Angeles Times columnist Jean Guerrero’s latest column, “Jose Cervantes left Delaware to see his dying father in Mexico. What happened changed his family’s fate,” is a powerful indictment of our broken immigration system, highlighting the tragedy of one family with ties to President Biden’s home...
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BORDER CRUELTY AND GOP, COURT RULES AGAINST ASYLUM BAN This week, America’s Voice worked to link together the extremism of the anti-immigrant side, connecting the dots between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s cruelty to immigrants, ongoing efforts to impeach Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the continued politicization of immigrants. Executive Director...
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