“I think Pride Month is an opportunity to highlight his story even more,” said Rep. Robert Garcia. “The more folks learn about it, the more they’ll put pressure on the administration and Homeland Security to do the right thing.” Pride Month is a time to celebrate the many LGBTQ... Continue »
Amid recent town hall pushback and nationwide May Day events where immigrants and their rights have been major rallying cries, a number of immigrants targeted under the Trump administration’s nativist obsessions have won important victories that shouldn’t get lost in the daily flood of often devastating news. Blowback from... Continue »
Some of the ugliest acts from Donald Trump’s first term were directed at  the most vulnerable: children. These attacks included the shameful policy of ripping 5,500 weeping migrant children, including nursing infants and toddlers, from the arms of their loved ones. Despite the established traumatic effects of these policies... Continue »
While the Biden administration recently announced a number of long-awaited immigration actions that will protect many undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens, as well as some DACA recipients, restrictive border policy announced earlier this month takes a step backward on our obligations under U.S. and international asylum law by further... Continue »
Pride Month is an important time to remember that many of our fellow Americans enriching and bettering our nation with their hopes, skills, and dreams are LGBTQ immigrants. In just one example, two beneficiaries of the DACA program made pop culture herstory this year as the first Dreamers to... Continue »
Earth Day 2024 is an important reminder that the global climate crisis and migration are intrinsically intertwined. While people migrate for a variety of reasons, such as family reunification or to seek asylum from life-threatening factors like state persecution and gang violence, climate change and related environmental crises have... Continue »
Immigrant workers and their advocates are celebrating news that the Biden administration has issued a temporary rule extending work permits for roughly 800,000 individuals who were at risk of losing their permission to work due to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) processing delays. Without action, immigrant workers would... Continue »
White House
Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the rumors of Biden administration executive actions on border and asylum:  “The Biden administration seems to be learning some of the wrong immigration policy and political lessons from recent months if... Continue »
Federal Investments into New York’s Job Training Programs will Bolster our Economy and Sustain New York’s Historic Role in Welcoming New Arrivals New York, NY — A recently published op-ed in The Times-Union, highlights how state and federal investments into job training programs are addressing New York’s labor shortage.... Continue »
Alarming reports have revealed that Senate negotiators and the Biden White House could be close to agreeing to a “border security” deal that would actually do nothing to improve conditions at the border. It would instead implement permanent changes that would eviscerate decades of established asylum law, severely limit... Continue »