Washington, DC — The Associated Press reports that DHS is lowering the age requirement for becoming an ICE agent and the agency will now recruit teenagers to fill the expanded ICE workforce. As DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told “Fox & Friends” about the news, “We no longer have a...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday, during a CNBC interview, President Trump offered his latest musings on the agricultural sector and the importance of farmworkers, again riffing on a supposed set of new administration policy approaches that would recognize the importance of immigrant farmworkers while adding his own openly stereotypical and...
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Washington, DC — Separating families. Detaining long-settled green card holders. Thousands of detention camps planned across the country. This is the face of Trump and Miller’s mass deportation crusade. Polling shows that Americans are rejecting the violent overreach of the Trump administration – and Republicans are feeling the heat...
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Washington, DC — As lawmakers head home for the August congressional recess, Republicans are feeling the heat over mass deportations and the political and economic costs on display. These existing human and economic costs are set to worsen, due to the massive increase in ICE funding in the reconciliation...
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Washington, DC — Sunday, August 3rd, marks the sixth anniversary of the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart, when a white nationalist motivated by fear of a Hispanic “invasion” of Texas killed 23 people and wounded dozens more. Ahead of the anniversary, Mario Carrillo, El Paso native, current...
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Washington, DC — At an America’s Voice virtual press conference held today, pollsters and experts from Global Strategy Group, Third Way and UnidosUS discussed the latest on American public opinion on immigration, including among Latino voters. Immigration public opinion has changed dramatically in recent months, with President Trump’s approval...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will distribute $608 million for states to build immigration detention centers, at a...
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Washington, DC — Fresh polling and analysis adds to the clear set of takeaways regarding immigration public opinion, including among Latino voters: Americans are opposed to the cruelty, chaos and overreach of the Trump mass deportation agenda; They want a balanced approach – pairing order at the border and...
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