Washington, DC – Republicans continue to tell one of their favorite nativist lies, falsely blaming immigrants and asylum seekers for the very real scourge of fentanyl. There is an urgent need to address the nation’s fentanyl crisis, but falsely conflating the issue as an immigration one distracts from solutions...
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Escalating Rhetoric will lead to Escalating Violence Washington, DC – In his relentless effort to define himself as an anti-immigrant hardliner for GOP primary audiences, Ron DeSantis hasn’t concerned himself with the consequences of his nativist words and policies. This includes the ongoing costs and harms from his signature...
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Washington, DC – The relentless anti-immigrant focus of both Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida and Governor Greg Abbott in Texas has led to both states enacting harmful anti-immigrant laws and policies that are both scapegoating and harming immigrants, both those arriving and those settled in the states. But what...
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Washington, DC – America’s Voice (AV) and America’s Voice Education Fund (AVEF) announced two new hires coming on in senior positions. Joseph Tiang-Lau Liu started in late July as the Managing Director of the two sister organizations and Kenneth A. Sandoval joined Aug. 7 as Senior Advisor to the...
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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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