Washington, DC – Important pushback and denunciation continues after last week’s revelations of horrific and dehumanizing cruelty by Texas troopers against vulnerable migrants and asylum seekers. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director at America’s Voice: “The dehumanizing and wasteful immigration efforts of Gov. Greg Abbott and too many of...
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TEXAS GOV. GREG ABBOTT’S BORDER CRUELTY HITS NEW LOW The extreme cruelty by Texas authorities at the border came to light this week in a Houston Chronicle story detailing a horrendous whistleblower account of moms and children caught in barbed wire, kids being pushed back into the Rio Grande, and migrants...
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Washington, DC – A new column by Ron Brownstein in The Atlantic focuses on the horrific details regarding Texas state troopers’ treatment of vulnerable children and pregnant women and the larger significance and pattern of Republican controlled states like Texas trying to seize immigration policymaking from the federal government....
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Washington, DC – The revelations out of Texas this week are horrific and sadly predictable. The radicalization of the Republican Party is essential context as this story develops. There is a throughline between Republicans mainstreaming white nationalism and a dehumanizing portrayal of immigrants and asylum seekers merely as threats...
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Washington, DC – Following the horrific revelations that Texas troopers were told to push children into the Rio Grande, state voices have been among the loudest critics to denounce the actions and put it into the larger important context: in a dehumanized immigration debate, the real lives and real...
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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 Houston Chronicle reported, in an exclusive, that as part of an initiative by the Governor...
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Washington, DC – The horrific details in a story published last night by Ben Wermund of the Houston Chronicle, “Exclusive: Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say,” demand accountability and are the result of the continued dangerous dehumanization of immigrants, America’s...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “Is expanding healthcare for Dreamers supposed to entice more future immigrants to have been in the U.S. since 2007?” Washington, DC – This week, House Republicans are again holding multiple committee and subcommittee hearings on immigration and the border – part of their relentless barrage of anti-immigrant...
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