NAACP Warns Florida “Is Openly Hostile Toward African Americans”; HRC Says DeSantis Is Weaving “Bigotry, Hate, and Discrimination Into State Law” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ cruel laws targeting marginalized communities continue to receive blowback from national and state organizations. Civil rights groups NAACP and Human Rights Campaign (HRC) have...
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If Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s message at his expected 2024 presidential campaign announcement next week is that he’ll run the nation the way he’s run his state, that should be some major cause for worry. Just look at some of the local and national headlines that have continued on...
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America’s Voice · La Semana en Inmigración – 5.19.23 ►La relativa calma en la frontera tras el fin de la aplicación del Título 42 ha puesto en perspectiva nuevamente la realidad migratoria en la región, donde si bien se disipó la acumulación humana de los últimos días y semanas...
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Like the draconian anti-immigrant laws of the past, DeSantis’ show-me-your-papers law already starting to backfire. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis got tons of press coverage yesterday when reporters cut and pasted his latest anti-immigrant stunt press release about “deploying assets” to help a fellow anti-immigrant governor in Texas. DeSantis, who...
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Chaos for Immigrants, Disruption for the Economy, Privacy Rights of Citizens Taken Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed into law S.B. 1718, one of the ugliest anti-immigrant bills that has made it through any state legislature in our country in recent memory. One of its provisions criminalizes Floridians...
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America’s Voice · La Semana en Inmigración – 5.12.23 ►A las 11:59 del 11 de mayo, el Título 42, que durante tres años permitió la remoción de 2.8 millones de migrantes sin la oportunidad de solicitar asilo, dejó de aplicarse, poniendo a prueba la capacidad de la administración de Joe...
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Florida Republican María Elvira Salazar last year introduced an immigration bill that her office touted as The Dignity Act. Introduced despite having zero chance of passing the chamber due to an anti-amnesty pledge that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has previously made to his base, the bill purported to enact...
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El gobernador republicano de Florida, Ron DeSantis, está impulsando un paquete de medidas crueles que se enfocan en las comunidades inmigrantes en todo el estado, que incluye una cláusula que obligaría a las salas de emergencia a recabar el estatus migratorio de los pacientes. Pero esto no lo está haciendo...
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Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is pushing forward a package of cruel measures that put a target on the backs of immigrant communities all over the state, including one provision that would force emergency rooms to collect the immigration status of patients. But he’s not doing this alone. DeSantis’...
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To access a recording of today’s call, visit HERE Washington, DC — On a press call held this morning, Florida experts, advocates, affected community members and faith leaders gathered to discuss the latest on the damaging anti-immigration state legislative proposals backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Renata Bozzetto, Deputy Director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition,...
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