This is a guest post by David Leopold, America’s Voice Legal Advisor and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The debate over birthright citizenship is no longer a theoretical exercise confined to campaign trail rhetoric. What was once a fringe proposal championed by restrictionists in Congress has...
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Washington, DC — Today, ahead of the Supreme Court’s landmark hearing on birthright citizenship, a new guest post on the America’s Voice Substack by America’s Voice legal advisor David Leopold delivers a must-read analysis and preview of the arguments and implications (find on Substack here and excerpted below). Vanessa...
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“Why are we allowing ICE agents to terrorize our neighbors and traumatize our children?” asked one advocate. “Why are we watching as laws are broken in broad daylight?” During a Congressional shadow hearing last week, the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security, and Enforcement said...
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“I’m here because of the incredible amount of cruelty that’s going on in the world,” said one rally attendee Record-breaking “No Kings” events across every single U.S. state and territory this past weekend continued to voice fierce opposition to the Trump administration’s attacks on constitutional freedoms, paychecking-busting policies, and...
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More than 300,000 Haitian immigrants who’ve had permission to live and work in the U.S. but faced being returned to dangerous conditions have received a reprieve from deportation, after the Supreme Court kept in place lower court rulings that blocked the federal government from unjustly ending their temporary protections. ...
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus leaders: “As long as Stephen Miller is in control, there is no ‘kinder, gentler’ DHS” When it comes to government dysfunction and flushing taxpayer dollars down the toilet, no one does it better (or worse?) than the Trump administration. Case in point: rather than just paying...
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Students are facing suspension and other disciplinary actions for standing up for their peers, communities, and rights Thousands of high school students across dozens of states have been standing up for their classmates, communities, and values by walking out of their classrooms in protest of the federal government’s mass...
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Neither of them should have been detained in the first place A pair of current and former students who were abducted by mass deportation agents in separate incidents at the start of the Trump administration and had remained detained since have finally won their freedom, including a high school...
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The DHS nominee made clear he “would remain loyal to Mr. Trump and carry out his promise to crack down on illegal immigration and ramp up arrests,” as The New York Times reported The man on point to lead some of the most violent and out-of-control government agencies is...
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This Women’s History Month, we’ve highlighted the story of immigrant rights advocate Jeanette Vizguerra, who was kept separated from her children and grandchildren for nine months after being abducted by ICE while on a break outside her Target store last March. She finally won her freedom in late last...
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