Washington, DC – The arrest and detention of Columbia University Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil raises several troubling, larger implications. As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the Trump administration’s effort to deport Khalil rests solely on a determination by Secretary of State Marco Rubio – “immigration...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday, leading Senate and House Democrats joined with the ACLU and the Brennan Center for Justice to issue a letter to President Trump, condemning the administration’s reliance on the “legally and factually unfounded” and dangerous “invasion” conspiracy theory as the justification to trample on “civil liberties...
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Washington, DC – The Trump administration continues to intensify its attacks on immigrants and refugees, aiming to stoke fears and make the lives of immigrant families so unbearable that they “self deport;” purging long-settled immigrants through unsparing detentions and deportations and laying groundwork for broader random mass deportations; and...
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Washington, DC — As America’s Voice has been highlighting in our new “At What Cost?” campaign, all Americans will pay a high price because of Trump and Republicans’ chaotic and cruel immigration agenda and mass deportation obsessions. As their early enforcement actions underscore, and plans to turbocharge their current...
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Washington, DC – The Trump administration recently restarted family immigration detention, holding migrant parents and children at ICE detention centers in Karnes County and Dilley Texas. This dangerous decision marks a troubling return to the detention of families seeking asylum and safety in the United States. In response, Vanessa...
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ANOTHER NIGHT OF LIES AND HATE As we predicted at the beginning of the week, every sentence Donald Trump said about immigrants during his joint address to Congress on Tuesday night included a noun, a verb, and an ugly lie on immigration. His anti-immigrant obsessions, fully embraced by Congressional...
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Washington, DC – Yesterday, following Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s (D-NY) powerful Spanish language response to President Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday evening, the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) stated in a social media post, “Democrats literally chose an illegal immigrant to give their response to President Trump’s address.” As...
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Washington, DC – In response to Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last night, America’s Voice issued the following statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “As we predicted, every sentence Donald Trump said about immigrants last night included a noun, a verb, and...
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