Mar 6, 2023
CPAC Anti-Immigrant Ugliness Runs Through FL and TX Washington, DC – Last week, we highlighted how the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement were busy defining themselves by immigration extremism. This weekend proved the point, at CPAC and in the prominent GOP-led states of Texas and Florida, they...
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At CPAC, in Congress and in Florida, “GOP is ever-more comfortable with a brand of anti-immigrant politics that is extreme, dangerous, and out of step with the American public” – Zachary Mueller Washington, DC – As a series of events and remarks this week underscore, today’s Republican Party and...
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Washington, DC – During testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland noted: “Racially-motivated violent extremists as a group are the most dangerous of the domestic violent extremist groups … and within that the white supremacists are the most dangerous and most lethal” (see a...
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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: In another week of contrasts, two issues—the New York Times story about child labor exploitation, and...
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Instead of band-aid approach and chaos of asylum ban, “Biden has real and better options both substantively and politically” – Vanessa Cárdenas Washington, DC – More voices are weighing in to condemn the Biden administration’s asylum ban, highlighting its echoes of the Trump administration, the chaos and cruelty of...
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America’s Voice backgrounder: “Despite Lamb’s dangerous extremism, or maybe because of it, Republicans have continued to elevate him” Washington, DC – Sheriff Mark Lamb of Pinal County, AZ is one of the Republican witnesses at this morning’s House Homeland Security committee hearing – once again signaling Republicans’ comfort with...
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Dana Milbank: “It’s time for House Republicans to stop smuggling backpacks full of white-nationalist propaganda into their hearings.” Washington, DC – Tomorrow’s scheduled House Homeland Security Committee hearing will mark the fifth House GOP committee border-related hearing in five weeks, not even including Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s photo op presser...
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Washington, DC – Over the weekend, Hannah Dreier of the New York Times published a devastating piece of investigative journalism, detailing how many unaccompanied immigrant minors have been funneled into exploitative and illegal child labor, including on behalf of major U.S. corporations. The following is a statement from Vanessa...
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