Don’t Let Trump Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes The $4.5 billion supplemental budget request tells you a great deal about what Donald Trump is getting wrong about the surge of migrants seeking asylum at our southern border. While the administration is pretending to be concerned about plight of...
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English The Washington Post Asylum changes show Trump’s 2020 focus will again be on the border, presenting tough choices for Democrats By Sean Sullivan, Josh Dawsey and Matt Viser May 01, 2019 Politico Colleges urged to shun Trump officials tied to family separation By Michael Stratford May 01, 2019...
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Yesterday, the Washington Post published the latest in a string of investigative stories by the Post and the New York Times detailing the systematic hiring and exploitation of undocumented workers throughout properties operated by the Trump family. This is an issue that America’s Voice has been tracking closely. The...
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English NPR Trump Calls For New Restrictions On Asylum Seekers By John Burnett April 30, 2019 LA Times Trump restricts asylum further but faces legal and financial limits By Molly O’Toole April 30, 2019 Associated Press Trump’s proposed fee on asylum seekers would burden the poor By Nomaan Merchant...
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Appearance of Selective Enforcement to Protect President In an exchange at today’s subcommittee hearing of the House Appropriations Committee, Acting ICE Director Kevin McAleenan was given the opportunity to say if his agency would give President Trump’s businesses special treatment on immigration and prosecution. His answer was evasive,...
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We Need Common Sense, Effective and Humane Solutions Last night, the President issued a memorandum that purports to be a solution to the increasing number of families seeking asylum at our southern border by imposing fees on asylum seekers, ending work permits for asylum seekers to support themselves while...
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Greg Sargent’s newest column for the Washington Post puts Trump’s lies on full display as he tries to appeal to voters by touting a policy that isn’t in place. In Wisconsin, Trump was feeding voters a diet of lies and cruelty to get their applause at a rally. The...
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More Failure On Its Way At The Border The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the new restrictions on asylum seekers proposed by the Trump Administration. New restrictions on asylum encapsulate the vicious cruelty, failed policy, and cynical political motivations that...
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America’s Voice Acting ICE Director Won’t Commit to Investigate Trump Trump’s Latest Memo Imposing Fees on Asylum Seekers and Ending Their Work Permits is More of the Same Failed and Inhumane Policy ICYMI: “Trump feeds his voters one of his most ridiculous scams yet” WaPo’s Greg Sargent: “Trump is...
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A story today in The Intercept reveals that a security contractor for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took the time to meticulously catalog a series of protests against the President’s family separation policy and report those protests preemptively to all DHS staffers and law enforcement across the country....
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