Washington, DC — Just weeks ago, the Biden campaign pledged to go “on the offensive on immigration, decrying ‘scary’ Trump plans.” Today, the Biden administration is reportedly open to including Trump immigration policies in a supplemental funding bill, such as nationwide “expedited removal”—in essence rounding up undocumented immigrants for...
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UNDER THE UKRAINE BUS <align=”center;font-size: large”=””></align=”center;font-size:>All week, Senators continued negotiating how badly and fully they were willing to throw asylum seekers and immigrants under the bus in order to get Republicans to accept aiding Ukraine and other allies. The consistent message from pro-immigrant advocates has been that immigrants are...
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Groups Called on Members of Congress to Stand Strong Against Extreme Immigration Policies Washington, DC — Today, leading immigration policy experts and advocates from New York City, Boston, and Los Angeles called on Congress to pass much-needed funding for cities to improve the asylum process and support asylum seekers...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: The Republican theater of treating Immigration as an electoral weapon continues to hold military aid to...
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Washington, DC — There’s renewed attention to the Senate supplemental funding negotiations following a failed procedural vote yesterday and given the stakes and urgency of aid to Ukraine and other allies. As Politico detailed, “Democrats believe it’s misleading to argue that Democrats are getting Ukraine funding in exchange for...
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Washington, DC – Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, explicitly endorsed the great replacement theory – a white nationalist and antisemitic conspiracy theory that has inspired multiple deadly terrorist attacks over the last several years. Later in the day, Donald Trump participated in a live interview with Fox News’s...
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Link to Audio Recording of Today’s Call HERE Washington, DC — On a press call held this afternoon, national security experts joined border and immigration policy advocates and experts to assess the ongoing Capitol Hill supplemental funding negotiations and what’s at stake. Speakers on today’s call highlighted why aid...
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Washington, DC – A revealing set of comments from Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and new reporting on Senate Republicans’ demands underscore the bad faith and extreme policy Republicans are insisting on in exchange for funding our allies in Ukraine. Among his comments yesterday, Senator Cornyn noted: “It’s a point...
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