Washington, DC — Texas under Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) has been relentless in their anti-immigrant focus, both politically and substantively. Texas is challenging federal supremacy over immigration and border control and going to new lengths to assert the Governor’s role in the national GOP spiral towards extremism. Three developments...
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No matter which Republican presidential candidate emerges as the victor in the upcoming Iowa caucuses, what is assured is that attacking and vilifying immigrant communities all over the U.S. and at the southern border will remain the bedrock of their strategy to drive GOP voters to the polls, both...
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Find the full recording of the call here. WASHINGTON, D.C. – As some Republican lawmakers continue to hold security assistance to Ukraine hostage in exchange for major policy reforms to restrict immigration, immigrant rights advocates and policy experts held a press call today to outline the anticipated harms of...
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Alarming reports have revealed that Senate negotiators and the Biden White House could be close to agreeing to a “border security” deal that would actually do nothing to improve conditions at the border. It would instead implement permanent changes that would eviscerate decades of established asylum law, severely limit...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “The insistence of some Senators to end legal pathways and parole authority is evidence that they are not interested in solutions that serve our economic needs but rather want more chaos and inhumanity at the border.” Washington, DC — Per ongoing reports that parole authority is an...
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Washington, DC — The House of Representatives is planning to fast track a sham impeachment against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, with tomorrow’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing the next step. In the process, Republicans are stoking a dangerous climate by mainstreaming deadly white nationalist conspiracies on “replacement” and “invasion,”...
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UPDATE: Since publication from November 13th, 2023, at least 33 Republican members of Congress from the 118th used language associated with the great replacement theory to justify Mayorkas’ impeachment at least 60 times on public platforms. On November 9, 2023, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed a privileged resolution...
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Wall Street Journal editorial board: “Some House Republicans would rather have the issue in November than a policy victory now.” Washington, DC — Over the weekend, much of the attention to immigration and border issues focused on supposed progress in the Senate/White House negotiations and chatter about forthcoming bill...
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Washington, DC — As America’s Voice has been pointing out and multiple Republicans have themselves been admitting, the GOP is more interested in driving a political message hammering Biden and Democrats on immigration than they are in enacting serious policy to address the issue. Key observers have been making...
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As we enter 2024, we can fully expect to be deluged with an onslaught of punditry about the Latino vote. Over the years, we have watched as many paid political prognosticators expressed their uninformed takes on how Latinos will vote and it’s usually dire predictions that Democrats are in...
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