IMMIGRANTS ARE THE ‘TIP OF THE SPEAR’ IN ATTACKS ON DEMOCRACY Last weekend Donald Trump went over the cliff, commenting that immigrants are not real people, that the convicted felons of the January 6 attack on the government of the United States are heroes, and that there will be...
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GENERAL ELECTIONS SEASON BEGINS AND IMMIGRATION REMAINS IN THE SPOTLIGHT “The stakes and contrasts of this election are clear on immigration and how the issue is being used and misused as a political cudgel.” That’s how America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas started the week when we moved past the abbreviated...
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STATE OF THE UNION: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN President Biden’s use of “an illegal” in the off-script exchange with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) at the State of the Union address on Thursday was a disturbing distraction from the rest of his immigration remarks, which were better...
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BORDER BACKDROP SPLIT SCREEN: TRUMP AND BIDEN IN TEXAS The week was dominated by the news that President Biden and Donald Trump would visit Texas on Thursday, one week before the Super-Tuesday primaries and the State of the Union Address. America’s Voice previewed what we thought Biden should say in Brownsville,...
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ROUND-UPS, ENDING TPS, RESTRICTING SERVICES, AND RED STATE ARMIES The extreme anti-immigrant and anti-immigration policies of the Republican Party will be a campaign issue for Democrats in 2024. Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, the Heritage Foundation, and others are being loud and proud when it comes to their mass deportation...
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NATIVISM FAILED TO DELIVER IN NY-03 SPECIAL ELECTION The GOP’s nativist strategy flopped in NY-03’s special election this week. Democrat Tom Suozzi beat Republican Mazi Pilip by 8 points Tuesday night to flip the seat most recently held by ousted Republican George Santos. Immigration was at the center of...
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GOP DEBACLE #1 – THE SENATE As of this writing, we are not out of the woods, but it appears that the worst risk of bad policy ideas becoming law – as proposed in Senate legislation – may be off the table for now. This week, anti-immigration, pro-Trump Republicans...
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ELECTED OFFICIALS AND EXTREMISM EXPERTS WARN GOP RHETORIC IS FUELING VIGILANTISM AT BORDER Borderland communities are on alert, due to the right-wing Take Our Border Back rallies scheduled for this week in Arizona, California, and Texas. America’s Voice noted that this contingent of Proud Boys, neo-Nazis, and assorted bigots is being...
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DEAL OR NO DEAL? TRUMP SAYS NO AND IT’S HIS PARTY The headline on AV’s press statement on Thursday read: “The Art of Killing the Deal – Donald Trump and GOP Prefer No Deal and Chaos to Solutions and Progress,” which captured the week of no progress on an immigration/borderUkraine...
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TRAGIC DEATHS SPOTLIGHT CONTINUED DANGERS OF DEHUMANIZING POLICIES Just days after Texas Governor Greg Abbott publicly lamented that the state couldn’t shoot and kill migrants on sight at the southern border, a woman and two children tragically drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande into the state. They...
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