Countdown to TPS Decision Deadline for Yemen and Somalia: 5 Weeks In an article for the Washington Post, Paul Waldman dissects Trump’s endlessly cruel immigration policies, including his termination of Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 legal immigrants from six countries still facing significant hardship at home. Yemen...
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A new analysis of House Republican candidates’ midterm TV ads, conducted by Kantar Media and published by USA Today, confirms that ugly anti-immigrant fear mongering and divisiveness is the central thrust of the White House and Republicans’ 2018 political strategy. The USA Today article, “Immigration dominating GOP candidates’ TV...
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It is Trump’s Deliberate Policy and a Deliberate Choice that Harms Children in Order to Deter Asylum-Seekers and Unauthorized Immigrants Amy Harmon of the New York Times reported: President Trump over the weekend falsely blamed Democrats for a ‘horrible law’ separating immigrant children from their parents. In fact, his...
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Nationwide, observers are castigating the Trump administration’s inhumane policy of separating children from their parents. As David Leopold, Partner and Chair of Immigration for Ulmer & Berne and former President of American Immigration Lawyers Association, explained in an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur, “What we have going on at...
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Cleveland, OH – This week, a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas shot and killed an unarmed woman who had allegedly crossed the border without authorization. Let that sink in. An American law enforcement agent shot an unarmed woman in the head and killed her, simply because he...
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The latest episode of the America’s Voice podcast, “A is for America”, features an interview with our own Executive Director, Frank Sharry, who spoke with us about immigration politics in the 2017 Virginia election and the GOP’s hate-filled agenda in 2018. Frank Sharry spoke about the last year in...
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Every day brings more reminders about the centrality and disturbing nature of President Trump’s anti-immigrant worldview. As the Washington Post reports: The night before Trump delivered his first speech to Congress in February 2017, he huddled with Jared Kushner and Miller in the Oval Office to talk immigration …...
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In an El Paso Times op-ed, Mario Carrillo, America’s Voice Texas Director, reveals the source of inspiration for the recent cases of racism and harassment against Spanish-speaking immigrants: President Donald J. Trump. Read excerpts from Mario Carrillo’s op-ed below and find the entire piece here: …Imagine life for immigrants,...
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