Congress needs to investigate why taxpayers paid for what amounts to a campaign ad for Donald Trump A lurid, inaccurate and racist propaganda video produced and disseminated by the U.S. Border Patrol epitomizes the fact that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has become an arm of the...
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Sep 4, 2020
Each Friday through Election Day, we disseminate this memo highlighting the key 2020 developments at the intersection of electoral politics and immigration Key Immigration Politics Stories Trump’s strategic racism is not just falling flat, it’s backfiring The border wall, like Trump’s presidency, is failing before our eyes Citizenship delayed...
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Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its decision to extend but not redesignate South Sudan for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for another 18 months. Extending without redesignating South Sudan for TPS fails to take into consideration the country’s deteriorating conditions as well as the thousands of South...
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Tired of his divisiveness, Americans want to come together to solve big challenges In the face of Trump’s focus on urban unrest in hopes of deflecting from his epic failures on the pandemic, the economy and racial injustice, new polls show that the lead Biden and Democrats have built...
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New engineering report finds border wall will fail, a reminder that it epitomizes Trump’s presidency We have long characterized President Trump’s border wall obsession as the perfect encapsulation of his presidency – failing, corrupt, narcissistic, offensive, and unpopular. The recent charges against Steve Bannon and other leaders of the...
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Upon entering the last trimester of 2020 it is impossible not to conclude that this has been a terrible year at the personal, collective, and global level, and we still cannot predict what will happen in the presidential election on November 3, or how this fateful year that has...
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Sep 1, 2020
Leading voices condemn Trump’s effort to encourage violence in desperate attempt to hold onto power A weak, failing, threatened and scared President Trump is openly encouraging violence in a desperate attempt to scare voters and hold onto power. Leading observers are capturing the dangerous moment facing our democracy: Dana...
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Strategic racism didn’t work in 2018. Let’s make sure it doesn’t work in 2020. The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director at America’s Voice, taking stock of the latest political state of play: Much to the distress of Trump and the GOP, a powerful multiracial...
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