Sen. Cruz and Sen. Cornyn response to land grab? Silence In a piece published by NBC News this week, Courtney Kube and Julia Ainsley highlight that the Trump administration is preparing court filings to begin forcefully taking private land from hundreds of Texans in order to build his racist... Continue »
Republicans Ignore Constitution and Big Government Concerns to Stand with Trump A Washington Post story by Nick Miroff and Arelis Hernandez, “Trump administration has acquired little of the private land in Texas it needs for border barrier,” reminds us that despite Trump’s border wall obsessions and the related enabling... Continue »
America’s Voice Urges Senators Ernst, Perdue, McConnell, Tillis, Cornyn and others to Stand Up for Constitution and Constituents on #FakeTrumpEmergency The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: Today, the Senate will have a vote on whether or not to override Trump’s veto of... Continue »
“When we got DACA, we got wings.” Across sectors and the ideological spectrum, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, business owners, national security experts, educators, members of Congress, and civil rights leaders filed amici briefs in support of Dreamers nationwide, ahead of next month’s Supreme Court’s oral arguments... Continue »
America’s Voice ICYMI: Two Months After Attack on Latinos in El Paso, Story Highlights How the City Has Been Ground Zero for Anti-Immigrant Policies Crisis Grows Over “Remain in Mexico” Policy at Border Crossings New AP/NORC Polling the Latest Reminder that Trump’s Race-Baiting and Xenophobia is Broadly Unpopular English... Continue »
Republicans Senators will be targeted from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on Wednesday on a measure to revoke President Trump’s national emergency declaration, America’s Voice today launched a... Continue »
Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Senators McSally, Gardner, Tillis, Graham, and Cornyn Take Well-deserved Heat   The Trump administration may be taking heat for their decision to raid $3.6 billion from 127 approved and appropriated military construction projects in favor of Trump’s border wall obsession, but the people getting... Continue »
America’s Voice Local and National Editorial Boards and Observers Call Out Trump’s History of Hate as He Incites Violence, Not Unity ICYMI: WaPo’s Jennifer Rubin: “John Cornyn is Choosing Trump Over Texas” New Trump Administration Policy Makes it Easier to Deport Victims of, and Witnesses to, Crimes English Las... Continue »
After being detained at a Border Patrol checkpoint in South Texas, Francisco Galicia is the latest U.S. citizen under threat of deportation Austin, TX – An 18-year-old U.S. citizen has been in immigration custody for more than three weeks, and is now under imminent threat of deportation, the Dallas... Continue »
On Sunday, President Donald J. Trump declared that progressive Democratic congresswomen should return to “the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Although Trump did not name them, he was referring to four congresswomen elected in the 2018 midterms: Alexandria Ocasio Cortés, born in New York and... Continue »