Washington, DC — Texas Governor Greg Abbott is inviting a dangerous mob that amounts to a threat to public safety as he maneuvers Texas into a standoff with the federal government over who has access to our international border and who should enforce our laws there. Texas leaders and...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “Just because the so-called target is immigrants, we cannot ignore the danger and threat it represents to our democracy.” Washington, DC — This week, many have highlighted Donald Trump’s outsized role in scuttling the Senate’s immigration and border bill for cynical political reasons. Fewer have noticed Trump’s...
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In the lead up to the New Hampshire GOP primary, we saw headlines like this from ABC News: “Immigration, the economy and foreign policy could decide the New Hampshire primary.” After seeing exit polls, FOX News reported, “Immigration is a top issue for Republicans across the country, and that...
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Washington, DC — As we have been highlighting and is clear in the news cycle today, Donald Trump and Republicans prefer immigration and the border as a political issue to run on, rather than an issue to be fixed. Above all, they want a perpetual “crisis” to exploit politically...
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Washington, DC — A powerful New York Times story by Zolan Kanno-Youngs, “For People Fleeing War, U.S. Immigration Fight Has Real-Life Consequences,” highlights some of the real people who might be harmed by the policies under discussion in the Senate’s ongoing border and immigration legislative talks. The story, which...
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Following the Supreme Court decision allowing the Biden administration to remove razor wiring installed by Texas to injure migrants at the Rio Grande, former Fox News host and “great replacement” theory promoter Tucker Carlson issued a disturbing and dangerous call for racist vigilantism at the border. In a message...
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now officially out of the 2024 Republican presidential primary race after his overhyped run for the White House crashed and burned following a distant second-place finish in Iowa last week. There’s no overstating the harm and danger his policies and rhetoric will continue to...
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Washington, DC — En el periódico The Hill, Rafael Bernal destaca cómo los legisladores latinos con profunda experiencia en política e inmigración han sido excluidos de las negociaciones sobre el paquete legislativo en torno a la frontera y la inmigración del Senado y la Casa Blanca. Este asunto procesal...
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has yet again called for the return of the Trump administration’s cruel and traumatic family separation policy, which tore more than 5,500 children from their families and resulted in one of the darkest chapters in modern U.S. history. While the Biden administration has reunited...
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Washington, DC — Key observers are highlighting the incoherence and cynical politics underlying Donald Trump and House Republicans’ likely opposition to any immigration and border agreement. As Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice stated: “The priority for House Republicans is to first and foremost demonstrate their fealty to...
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