A federal judge in Austin ruled this week that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott must remove his dangerous and inhumane floating saw blade barrier from the Rio Grande, “concluding that it was an impediment to navigation on the river and a ‘threat to human life,’” The New York Times reports....
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The headline from The Wall Street Journal says it all: “Texas ‘floating border wall’ fails to deter migrants.” The article details how the floating saw blades illegally installed in the Rio Grande as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s multi-billion dollar Operation Lone Star scheme have failed to block desperate...
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America’s Voice is among more than 100 human, civil and immigrant rights organizations that have signed a letter authored by the National Immigration Project urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to end collaboration with Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s inhumane and likely illegal Operation Lone Star. While the border...
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Texans, including border residents, gathered on Tuesday to demand an end to Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star scheme, which for two years and counting has wreaked havoc on both border communities and vulnerable migrants seeking new lives in the U.S. In the past several weeks alone, Texas officials...
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Aug 18, 2023
America’s Voice · La Semana En Inmigración – 8.18.23 Investigan muerte de niña migrante de 3 años Señalan al gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, por separar familias en la frontera y porque sus boyas invaden territorio mexicano Informe detalla serias irregularidades en los centros de detención de ICE Estudio...
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This summer marks five years since a federal judge ordered the reunification of thousands of children who were ripped from their parents under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. But five years later, hundreds remain separated due to that administration’s rapid deportations of parents to Central America, lack of...
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Aug 14, 2023
La muerte de una menor migrante de Venezuela, de apenas 3 años de edad que viajaba en un autobús enviado de Brownsville, Texas, a Chicago, Illinois, es el marco de la más reciente muestra de que las políticas antiinmigrantes como la “Operación Estrella Solitaria”, del gobernador Greg Abbott, tienen...
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Aug 11, 2023
•Delegación demócrata del Congreso repudia las boyas de Abbott en el Río Grande •La ley antiinmigrante de DeSantis en Florida sigue afectando la economía del estado •Nueva York pide ayuda ante el alto volumen de refugiados America’s Voice · La Semana En Inmigración – 8.11.23 ►Las potencialmente mortales...
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Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Is Ugly – And Costly, As The Texas Governor Continues To Show Texans are subsidizing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s political stunts, whether they want to or not. Texas has wasted billions in state (and possibly federal) funds on Abbott’s ineffective, wildly inhumane, and wildly expensive border operations....
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La muerte del joven hondureño Norlan Bayardo Herrera, de 20 años de edad, en el muro de boyas que colocó el gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, en el Río Grande, para disuadir a los indocumentados en su ruta hacia Estados Unidos, es un trágico recordatorio de algo que los...
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