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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 — During President Trump’s speech at CPAC this weekend, viewable here and excerpted below, he again relied on the false and dangerous “invasion” conspiracy theory that immigrants and immigration represent an existential danger and threat to the United States and one that must be repelled by force....
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Washington, DC — As HuffPost reported this morning, Donald Trump “has confirmed reports that he plans to declare a national emergency to enact a mass deportation program. The president-elect, who repeatedly vowed to deport undocumented immigrants during his campaign, said the reports are ‘true’ in a post on his...
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Several members of the 118th Congress have used their platforms and power to amplify a white nationalist conspiracy about a so-called migrant “invasion.” This dehumanizing rhetoric claims that migrants and asylum seekers at the border constitute a literal military-style invasion of the United States. Often this rhetoric cites a...
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Read Jazmine Ulloa’s “Talk of an Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Grows in Republican Ads and Speech” and see accompanying NYTimes video HERE Washington, DC — A New York Times story this weekend, “Talk of an Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Grows in Republican Ads and Speech,” spotlights America’s Voice research documenting the rising use...
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Washington, DC — While Republican Party elected officials and candidates are increasingly embracing and mainstreaming the use of dangerous “invasion” and “replacement” immigration conspiracies, even long established anti-immigrant organizations and leaders are trying to do damage control and spin away their past and ongoing usage of such rhetoric, as...
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Washington, DC — As right-wing politicians and talking heads continue utilizing dangerous “invasion” rhetoric to describe immigration, Democrats are being pressured to employ this bigoted conspiratorial language surrounding the southern border. Margaret Brennan, host of Face the Nation on CBS, pressed House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to use this...
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The Republican Party has fully embraced the white nationalist and antisemitic invasion and replacement conspiracy to describe immigration and the border – a racist fiction that has inspired multiple terrorist attacks and actively threatens our democracy. Over the last several years, this deadly racist conspiracy that non-whites are plotting to...
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Another House GOP Leader, NRCC Chair Richard Hudson, is Latest to Amplify Deadly White Nationalist and Antisemitic Conspiracy Promoted by Elon Musk, Exemplifying Threat to Our Safety and Democracy The owner of the social media site formerly known as Twitter – and the most-followed account on the platform –...
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Washington, DC — While much of the coverage of immigration and border is focused on Capitol Hill and Republicans’ dysfunction, we remain concerned about the real world dangers being mainstreamed by politicians stoking fear and conspiracies to mobilize their voters. As Vice reports, “A Tennessee man, galvanized by anti-immigrant...
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