While there’s much we don’t yet know with less than two weeks remaining in a tightly contested 2024 election cycle, below are 10 things we do know with confidence about immigration and the 2024 elections. Donald Trump is making his closing argument all about immigration lies – and it’s...
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The 2024 Democratic National Convention featured a hopeful and optimistic view of what America can be, on immigration and beyond, that stands in stark contrast to the “send them back now” chants and “mass deportation now” signs at July’s Republican National Convention. While there was no ignoring the embrace...
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Read the new America’s Voice backgrounder, “Five Things to Know About VP Candidate Tim Walz on Immigration” Washington, DC—Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate in the upcoming presidential election. The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, followed...
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On August 6, 2024, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her Vice Presidential running mate. Walz won the Governor’s mansion in 2018 after serving in Congress for the decade prior. He opposed the Trump administration’s cruel and unworkable proposals and supported long-settled immigrants and...
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Leer in español Here are five things you need to know about Vice President Kamala Harris’ immigration record: First as Attorney General of California, then as a U.S. Senator from the State, and as Vice President she has played an important role in the immigration debate and immigration policy....
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On July 21, President Joe Biden announced that he was withdrawing from the 2024 race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for President. Throughout her lived experience as the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants and tenure as California attorney general, U.S. senator, and Vice...
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In March 2017, Senator Chuck Schumer and then-Senator Kamala Harris were among leaders to join advocacy groups and affected families to oppose a proposal then wreaking havoc and fear in immigrant communities: funding indicted former President Donald Trump’s deportation force. Some speakers at the UnidosUS (then known as NCLR)...
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Join growing chorus of experts criticizing the Parliamentarian’s rationale for getting to no on citizenship proposals A Who’s Who of immigration legal scholars has penned a letter to Vice-President Kamala Harris and Senate Democratic leaders that strongly criticizes the Senate Parliamentarian’s rationale for rejecting legislative proposals to put...
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Today Vice President Kamala Harris met with DACA recipients and immigrant rights advocates to discuss the devastating DACA ruling from Texas last week and why citizenship must happen this year via reconciliation or other means. These champions of the movement had a simple message: immigrant communities cannot wait any...
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A recording of the event can be found here. Washington, DC – At a virtual press event on Wednesday, regional, foreign policy and immigration policy experts discussed Vice President Harris’ trip to Guatemala and Mexico. The visits provided the Biden administration an opportunity to introduce their vision for addressing...
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