Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the gun violence directed at former President Trump and his supporters and the start of the RNC this week. “For much of the past decade, America’s Voice has tracked and denounced...
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Mark Robinson, the MAGA nominee for governor in North Carolina, may not have the national name recognition of convicted felon Donald Trump or mass deportation enthusiast Marco Rubio, but he is one of the most extreme Republican candidates of 2024 (and that’s saying something these days.) During a hate-laden...
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A Joint Statement By Latino Leaders Washington D.C. – Following last night’s presidential debate, Latino leaders issued the following statement: “Everyone wants and deserves to feel safe in their homes, neighborhoods, and communities. Violent crime is a tragedy regardless of the victim, and our hearts are with the victims...
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Donald Trump kicked off his 2016 presidential campaign by descending the escalators of Trump Tower and calling Mexicans criminals and “rapists.” But as he has done throughout the past decade, Trump has found new lows to dehumanize communities. During a campaign stop in Ohio in mid-March in support of...
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Washington, DC — This weekend, Donald Trump proposed a UFC style migrant fighting league, saying immigrants were “tough,” “come from prisons” and are “nasty, mean.” While this dehumanizing rhetoric was false and disturbing, less appreciated was the even more sordid focus from Trump and right wing allies on advancing...
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A recently signed Iowa law endangering long-settled immigrants and U.S. citizens of color alike has been halted for now. This week, a federal judge temporarily paused the state’s anti-immigrant SF 2340, ruling that the Texas-style legislation “would interfere with the federal government’s enforcement of U.S. immigration laws,” Reuters reported....
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This week, President Biden announced a new policy that will keep families together, protect DACA recipients, and allow long-settled immigrants to stay in the United States. This is a welcome development that will improve the lives of millions of people around the country. At the same time, it exposes...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday, at a Las Vegas rally, Donald Trump returned to the same ugly themes he pushed in last week’s first post-conviction rally speech in Arizona. But this time, he spent more time echoing his January 6 rally speech, stressing the need to “stop the steal.” America’s...
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It seems like no U.S. policy priority is immune from the GOP’s obsessive fearmongering on immigrants. Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing this week that was neither about education nor the workforce. “The Consequences of Biden’s Border Chaos for K-12 Schools” was...
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The Department of Justice has sued Oklahoma over its anti-immigrant law, becoming the latest such lawsuit filed by the federal government in recent weeks over Texas-style legislation endangering long-settled immigrants and U.S. citizens of color alike. The lawsuits against Texas, Iowa, and now Oklahoma “signal that the Biden administration...
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