With General Elections Around the Corner, Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal Explains Why California Remains a Cautionary Tale for the GOP As Donald Trump and Ted Cruz continue to argue over who’s the biggest anti-immigrant demagogue in the GOP field, Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal offers a...
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Frank Sharry: “Redadas que aterrorizan comunidades, pisotean los derechos civiles y separan a las familias es algo que esperaríamos de un presidente como Trump” El siguiente es un comunicado de Frank Sharry, director ejecutivo de America’s Voice: Es oficial. El gobierno de Obama ha empezado a realizar redadas en...
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Frank Sharry: “Raids that terrorize communities, trample civil rights and separate families are something we would expect from a President Trump” The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice. It’s official. The Obama Administration has begun home raids aimed at arresting, detaining and deporting...
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Over the holiday break, we learned of a disturbing development: the Obama Administration appeared to be preparing a series of ICE raids targeting Central American refugees currently living in the US for deportation. Here’s everything we know about the Obama Administration’s deportation raids. What We Know About the Obama Administration’s...
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Washington, DC—On Christmas Eve, we learned of an extremely disturbing development – an appalling plan from the Obama Administration’s Department of Homeland Security that would deport whole Central American families—including young mothers and their children—to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, places where rape, sexual abuse and murder are commonplace. Most disturbingly, the...
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Donald Trump has been spewing racism and xenophobia since the day he announced his campaign for President back in June. He started with attacks on Mexicans and has been expanding his attacks to include immigrants and Muslims, among others. Trump’s messages aren’t lost on racists and white supremacists who...
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s meeting with a DAPA-eligible family on Monday marks the first Presidential election where all candidates from one party have met with immigrant families to hear their personal stories one-on-one. In November, former Gov. Martin O’Malley kicked off the “DAPA Dinners” campaign by breaking...
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Common Sense Emerges, For Now; Pro-Immigration Movement Stronger Than Ever The following is a statement from Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director of America’s Voice. Republicans in Congress started the immigration fight early in 2015. When they tried to shut down the Department of Homeland Security over President Obama’s immigration executive actions, they...
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Frank Sharry: “A party that needs to expand its appeal in a country undergoing a huge demographic transition has lurched to the right in a way that is likely to make it unelectable in the 2016 presidential race.” Political observers have been busy this week assessing the immigration back-and-forth...
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As Republicans have traded in self-deportation for mass-deportation, a must-read piece from the Washington Post’s Editorial Board looks at the mainstreaming of extremism within the GOP since the entrance of Donald Trump to the 2016 Presidential race. The Washington Post editorial, entitled, “For Republicans, bigotry is the new normal,”...
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