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: June 15, 2026, marks 14 years since Democratic President Barack Obama signed the executive order granting Deferred Action for...
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Washington, DC – As the World Cup gets underway today and millions of fans turning their attention to soccer’s biggest stage, the lead-up to the tournament has been overshadowed by a series of incidents that highlight the real-world consequences of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda. Alongside ICE presence at...
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Washington, DC – Yesterday evening, the Republican-controlled House voted to provide an additional $70 billion on top of $170.7 billion in funding for federal immigration enforcement agencies. The vote comes as The Marshall Project and MS Now reported that “ICE has dramatically increased detentions of children aged 3 and...
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Washington, DC – Earlier today, House Republicans passed the reconciliation bill providing approximately $70 billion in additional funding for federal immigration enforcement agencies. This massive infusion of taxpayer dollars at the expense of struggling American families comes with virtually no guardrails or accountability measures, and will exponentially increase the...
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Washington, DC – As the Associated Press detailed last week, House Republicans look set to pass legislation that would provide nearly $70 billion in additional funding for immigration enforcement agencies, dramatically expanding the Trump administration’s cruel deportation machine with few of the guardrails, transparency requirements, or accountability measures that...
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Washington, DC – After a recess delay, Senate Republicans early Friday morning passed a reconciliation package that would provide roughly $72 billion in new funding for ICE and CBP through fiscal year 2029. The bill also includes language that will remove the necessary oversight and restrictions on immigration enforcement...
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Washington, DC — In a new guest post for America’s Voice Substack, Charting a New Narrative on Immigration, immigrant rights advocate and Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHRILA) Director of Communications Jorge-Mario Cabrera reflects on the one-year anniversary of the LA ICE raids and the impact Trump’s mass deportation...
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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: It is unsurprising that as the first anniversary of ICE’s violent Los Angeles crackdown on June 6, 2025—which sparked...
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Washington, DC — One year ago, federal immigration raids in Los Angeles triggered days of protests and the deployment of the National Guard, marking a significant escalation in the militarization of immigration enforcement. Over the following twelve months, that approach expanded nationwide. Daily immigration arrests more than tripled, ICE...
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Washington, DC — This week, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin is set to appear before both the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Appropriations Committee to discuss the FY2027 DHS budget request. But these hearings are about far more than line items. They come as Congress...
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