For some reason, Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan is viewed in some quarters as a more trusted voice of reason than other Trump Administration DHS and immigration officials. Yet two new reports detail that McAleenan has been lying through his teeth to justify the Trump Administration’s extremism. A new...
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This is What House Democrats Were Fighting to End in the Border Supplemental Funding Bill This Week At the same time that House Democrats were fighting to keep key provisions in a border funding bill to protect kids from deteriorating detention conditions, detained children, parents, doctors, and lawyers submitted...
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“Ending DACA is another in a string of epic immigration failures by Trump and the Republican Party.” The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America’s Voice, in response to the news that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a DACA case next term: Donald Trump...
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“The onus is now on the President and his party. It’s their strategy and it’s their responsibility.” “Democrats, when the next spending bill comes forward, fight them and not each other; ensure that accountability, guardrails and requirements are written into the law.” Yesterday, the House passed the Senate version...
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Jun 27, 2019
Washington, DC – The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America’s Voice, regarding today’s Supreme Court Ruling in Department of Commerce v. New York on the inclusion of a citizenship question in the decennial census: Today, democracy prevailed as the Supreme Court ruled to block...
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Republicans Should be Ashamed of Holding Kids Hostage The House of Representatives must pass an emergency spending supplemental border bill before the July 4 recess – again – and get it to the Senate – again – because the Senate is more interested in placating Trump than in moving...
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With almost every single Democrat supporting and almost every single Republican opposing, the House of Representatives passed a funding bill to address the refugee and humanitarian crisis at the border last night on a vote of 230-195. [The Republican- controlled Senate seems poised to reject this bill in a...
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Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice issued the following statement: We are in the midst of a human rights crisis that should shake us to our core. We are pursuing cruelty as a matter of policy. This administration, in our name and with our tax dollars, is careening...
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