Tonight, in response to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress, Republicans and their allies will not offer solutions or policies. Instead, they will trot out their anti-immigrant attacks, relying on their same strategic racist frame. It’s been their main focus in 2021 as we’ve seen from numerous stunts and...
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In a series of congressional delegations going to the border and on relentless appearances on right wing media, Republicans are stoking fear and playing politics over immigration. They do not acknowledge that the vast majority of migrants are being kept out or that the ones who are being let...
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Even before Joe Biden took office, Republicans were scheming about how they could take advantage of the border situation that President Trump made worse in order to damage the incoming president and win victory in the next midterm elections. Politico’s Anita Kumar reports about a border trip by Republicans...
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Watch new video from America’s Voice HERE Last week, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated the Republican Party was not the party of “nativist dog whistles.” This followed Republican endorsements of white nationalists’ “great replacement theory” and the news of a GOP “America First Caucus” focused on...
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Many Republican officials—like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Sen. Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz, and Reps. Steve Scalise and Louie Gohmert—have recently decided to shine a partisan spotlight on the Southern border ignoring or even defending Trump’s cruel and ineffective border policies for years. The evidence of this brazen hypocrisy...
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Last night CBS’s 60 Minutes ran a chilling segment titled “Oath Keepers: How a militia group mobilized in plain sight for the assault on the Capitol.” The reporting shows how the public activity of this far-right militia made clear they were on a dangerous escalation that would lead them...
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Apr 16, 2021
“Republicans are laser focused on kids fleeing violence at the border to distract from the violence committed by their followers at the U.S. Capitol.” The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice. 100 days ago, Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress incited...
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Frank Sharry: “Today’s Republican politicians are less focused on winning general elections and more interested in surviving the Trump-led purge in contested primaries that are right around the corner.” Yesterday offered a perfect contrast between the two parties. Democrats are focused on solutions that change lives, and Republicans are...
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Douglas Rivlin: “We must replace GOP political depravity with a modern solution.” A new CNN op-ed from former HUD Secretary and San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, “Republicans are politicizing the border and children’s lives,” blasts the GOP for their fear mongering, falsehoods, and politicization of the lives of...
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Apr 12, 2021
Congress returns to work and, on the issue of immigration, we see the same old song and dance continue as it has for decades. On the one hand, Republicans exploit the “crisis” at the border as if it were something new, without offering solutions, just a return to the...
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