Washington, DC – Pope Francis was a tireless advocate for refugees and immigrants throughout his papacy. His unwavering commitment to the rights and dignity of migrants stood in stark contrast to the growing hostility and barriers facing displaced people globally. From his historic visits to refugee settings and border...
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Washington, DC – The Trump administration’s indiscriminate mass deportation measures are rapidly broadening, extending far beyond their original targets to now include U.S. citizens and legal residents. A Georgia-born citizen, Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, was detained in Florida despite presenting his birth certificate; a New Mexico teen, Jose Hermosillo, visiting...
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TRUMP-BUKELE MEETING: SENDING U.S. CITIZENS TO FOREIGN PRISON Monday’s meeting between Donald Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele should shock every American who cares about our system of checks and balances. Not only did Trump make clear he does not intend to abide by the Supreme Court ruling...
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Washington, DC — As America’s Voice has been noting, the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda can be thought of as the “tip of the spear” of their broader assault on core democratic pillars and American citizens’ rights. The past few days have detailed and underscored some of these worries –...
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Washington, DC — In a new op-ed for El Paso Matters, Mario Carrillo, Campaigns Director for America’s Voice and El Paso resident, reflects on the 2019 El Paso shooting and the dangerous impact of dehumanizing immigration rhetoric. In a series of recent interviews, the defense attorney for the El...
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Washington, DC — America’s Voice has been asking the question: “At what cost” to the American people does the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant and mass deportation agenda come? In “We’re About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like,” Nick Miroff of The Atlantic highlights that the Republican budget...
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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: This Tax Week, the negative consequences of the agreement between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and ICE, to share...
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Washington, DC – This week, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, in an Oval Office meeting, agreed with President Trump that Kilmar Abrego García would not be returned to his home in Maryland, despite being wrongfully deported, and now in a maximum security prison in El Salvador. The meeting came...
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