House Immigration Votes Are Meant to Distract from, Not Resolve the Family Separation Crisis AV Urges “No” Votes on Goodlatte and Ryan Bills America’s Voice recommends that members of the House of Representatives vote no on Goodlatte and Ryan’s immigration bills set for this week. Summary The “Securing America’s...
Continue
»
Jun 18, 2018
Questions and Answers Can the Trump administration immediately stop separating families at the border, without an act of Congress? Yes. Last month, the Trump administration unilaterally implemented a new policy that results in family separations. On May 7, Attorney General Sessions delivered remarks confirming a “zero tolerance” policy in...
Continue
»
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, along with others, claims that the recently-negotiated and just released Republican-only bill would end family separation. Vox’s Dara Lind is out with a must-read explainer. Spoiler alert: The GOP is lying. As Lind explains: House Speaker Paul Ryan and others are emphasizing a...
Continue
»
A sham in the House, a potential catastrophe in the courts House Republicans are pretending to care about Dreamers while pursuing Trumpian nativism. This is a bridge to nowhere. Meanwhile, what truly matters is the brazen move by the Department of Justice to end run federal court decisions in...
Continue
»
Tonight, Corey Stewart won the Republican nomination for United States Senate in Virginia. There’s a lot of competition for which candidate will be the most extreme, anti-immigrant nominee running this year, but, given his long, sordid history, Stewart is going to be among the worst. We’ve been following his...
Continue
»
The announcement from Attorney General Jeff Sessions that most asylum seekers fleeing domestic and gang violence will no longer qualify for asylum protection in the U.S. is another in a string of cruel immigration announcements by the Trump Administration, America’s Voice Education Fund said today. Also yesterday, AG Sessions...
Continue
»
Tragedy Strikes and Outrage Mounts Over the Trump Administration’s Cruelty Over the weekend, Nick Miroff of the Washington Post reported on the devastating story of Marco Antonio Muñoz, a Honduran father who was evidently so distraught about being separated from his wife and child as a result of the...
Continue
»
The latest episode of our podcast, “A is for America”, features an interview with Jon Rodney and Layla Razavi of the California Immigrant Policy Center, who spoke to us about the California Values Act and what hate groups have done to try and bring down the law in the...
Continue
»
Yesterday’s electoral results confirmed two trends in evidence since Trump’s election in 2016: Energy and enthusiasm remains high for voters who make up the “Coalition of the Decent” and are intent on electing Democrats and checking Trump. Republican attempts to use anti-immigrant fear mongering fails again, this time in...
Continue
»
Jun 1, 2018
It is increasingly clear that the animating principle of Trump’s presidency is abject cruelty and inhumane policies towards immigrants and people of color. Below, we excerpt just some of the most recent commentary on this administration’s radicalism. The New Republic’s Matt Ford: “Cruelty Is Trump’s Only Immigration Policy”:...
Continue
»
