According to reports, John Tanton, the founder of a network of anti-immigrant hate groups, has died at age 85. Tanton was once called the “most influential unknown man in America” and is in part directly responsible for the Trump Administration’s fear-and-cruelty approach to immigration. Unfortunately, Tanton’s legacy will live...
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America’s Moral Collapse Continues A new gut wrenching story from the New York Times’ Christian Goldbaum and Miriam Jordan, with photographs from Christopher Lee, details the prolonged separation of Heydi Gámez García, a 13-year-old refugee from Honduras, and her father Manuel Gámez, which ended in Heydi’s death by suicide. ...
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America’s Voice John Tanton Has Died. Unfortunately, His Racist Legacy Lives On At FAIR and CIS Trump’s North Carolina Rally: A Vile Foreshadow of 2020 ICYMI: New York Times: “A Border Kept Him From His Daughter. Now He’s Here to Say Goodbye.” English Politico Cuccinelli bores his way into...
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Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee held a hearing entitled, “Policy Changes and Processing Delays at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,” which highlighted a quiet, though insidious, issue brewing at the agency charged with timely processing of immigration requests paid for exclusively by fees charged...
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America’s Voice Trump Administration Policies Creating and Exacerbating USCIS Backlog and Processing Delays Let’s Not Forget: Trump Closed Hard With Xenophobia in 2018, and it Backfired Badly Las noticias más destacadas en español English NBC News Trump administration won’t be granting Venezuelans temporary protection for now By Suzanne Gamboa...
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Turning Its Back on Venezuela, Trump Admin OK with Endangering the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America’s Voice, on USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli’s announcement that it will not designate Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS): The...
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NPR: CBP Agent Forces 3-Year Old into Literal Sofi’s Choice of Mom or Dad The moral collapse of the Trump administration is on full display: President Trump’s “go back to where you came from” racist tweets and comments aimed at women of color elected to Congress; VP Mike Pence and...
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America’s Voice Pili Tobar on USCIS Decision Not to Designate Venezuela for TPS (Temporary Protected Status) “The Nightmare of Child Separations Continues” House Oversight Committee Report Shows Leading Observers: Trump Uses Racism to Attack the American Experiment as a Reelection Strategy Las noticias más destacadas en español English ThinkProgress...
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A recording of the call is available here. Earlier today, immigration experts and advocates gathered on a press call to discuss the Trump administration new proposed asylum, aimed at creating more confusion and blanket exclusion. The Third-Country Asylum Rule (an interim final rule that will go into effect immediately...
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Administration Announces New Unlawful Regulation to Close Asylum to Most Central Americans and Others Today, the Trump administration announced that it will publish a new regulation going into effect tomorrow that will bar anyone, including children, from applying for asylum on the southern border if they pass through a...
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