President Trump spent most of yesterday pressuring Congress to embrace his immigration plan and trash-talking Democratic leaders for rejecting it. On Twitter, he wrote, “We have a great chance to make a deal or, blame the Dems!” The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice,...
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Donald Trump during his State of the Union address this week detailed an immigration proposal that is radical, racist, and un-American. As our Executive Director, Frank Sharry said, “the hardliners are high-fiving; the Statue of Liberty weeps.” Trump’s immigration plan is extreme because it: Is a radical and racist...
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The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, in reaction to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union: Tonight’s State of the Union address by President Trump showed that he is more interested in sowing division than in forging unity. This is a President who...
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Tomorrow is the State of the Union, and while Dreamers and other immigrants have been invited as guests for years, tomorrow will be something special. With DACA running out of time and no Dream Act in sight, dozens of Dreamers have been invited this year by members of Congress...
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Momentum Growing for “Dream Act Plus Smart Border” Package After widespread condemnation of the White House immigration framework – a cynical attempt to enact longstanding nativist policy goals by exploiting the desperation of Dreamers – key voices are calling for a more narrow approach focused on pairing the Dream Act with...
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In a new column for HuffPost, DACA-recipient and America’s Voice Communications Manager Juan Escalante provides a firsthand analysis of a Dreamer’s take on the dead-on-arrival White House immigration principles. Escalante concludes: Dreamers have been part of the immigration debate since 2001. We have helped to define the discussion on immigration over...
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A recording of today’s call is available here. After another tumultus week on immigration in Washington, leaders from United We Dream, UndocuBlack Network, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, and the Women’s Refugee Commission analyzed the White House immigration principles, the state of the federal immigration debate, and the next steps. A...
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Today, the White House rolled out a new anti-immigrant proposal which would use the fact that Dreamers need protection from deportation in order to pass a slate of nativist, anti-immigrant measures that would change U.S. demographics for the long run. The proposal, spearheaded by senior policy “adviser” Stephen Miller, would...
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As the White House rolls out its proposal on immigration, the following is the reaction of Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: President Trump and Stephen Miller are exploiting a crisis that they created, so they can take a wrecking ball to the Statue of Liberty. They think that by...
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Yesterday, President Trump said he would be open to putting some Dreamers on a path to citizenship, only to have it walked back by unnamed senior staff. The following is a reaction and a reflection on the state of play by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: We...
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