THE POLITICIZATION OF IMMIGRATION CONTINUES Senators continued to negotiate – and not get to a final agreement – a package to fund the Ukrainian defense against Putin by gutting asylum in the hopes of winning Republican votes. America’s Voice has been carrying a consistent message, that “most Republicans, especially most...
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New Year, Same GOP This year began much like last year ended: Republicans making clear that immigration and border policy is a political issue for them and not a policy issue that they actually want to solve. This week, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) led a delegation of 60 Republican...
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AS YET UNDEFINED LUMPS OF COAL IN OUR CHRISTMAS STOCKING As of this writing, Senators are leaving Washington with no deal in place to trade increased deportations and restricted legal immigration or asylum for aid to fight Putin in Ukraine. The White House and Democratic Senators are still pledged...
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3 THINGS PAYING GOP RANSOM WON’T DELIVER: MORE ORDER, LESS CHAOS, OR POLITICAL BENEFITS FOR DEMOCRATS Reports from Capitol Hill indicate that the White House is close to caving into GOP demands for harmful changes to the nation’s border and asylum laws to pass critical national security assistance to...
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UNDER THE UKRAINE BUS <align=”center;font-size: large”=””></align=”center;font-size:>All week, Senators continued negotiating how badly and fully they were willing to throw asylum seekers and immigrants under the bus in order to get Republicans to accept aiding Ukraine and other allies. The consistent message from pro-immigrant advocates has been that immigrants are...
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CHAOS VS. ORDERLINESS: THE SENATE CONTEMPLATES GUTTING ASYLUM All week, the focus was on the U.S. Senate where a group of Senators, including Democrats Chris Murphy (CT) and Michael Bennet (CO), were negotiating with Republicans and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) about how – and if – to add measures to...
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TRUMP IMMIGRATION PLAN FLASHES RED ALERT FOR LATINO AND PROGRESSIVE ADVOCATES A New York Times article over the weekend published chilling details of what a second Trump administration could look like on immigration. Straight from Stephen Miller’s cruelest dreams, Trump’s plan would include assaults on legal immigration, massive deportation...
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REJECT HARMFUL ASYLUM PROPOSALS, ADVOCATES URGE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS Republicans are reportedly seeking to use the supplemental funding process to enact a host of permanent and draconian immigration changes in exchange for keeping the government open and aiding our allies in Ukraine. Some Senate Democrats, such...
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STRONG PUSHBACK TO POSSIBLE ASYLUM RESTRICTIONS; MAYORS URGE A MORE ORDERLY, EFFICIENT AND FAIR PROCESS In response to troubling reports of lawmakers considering lasting asylum restrictions in exchange for Ukraine funding, America’s Voice issued a statement both warning against giving in to MAGA Republican brinkmanship, and raising the dangerous...
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THE SPEAKER OF … WHITE NATIONALIST CONSPIRACY THEORIES Republicans finally elected a House Speaker; one who is not surprisingly anti-LGBTQ, pro-gun, anti-abortion and anti-immigrant, but the extent of his embrace of dangerous white nationalist conspiracy theories about immigration was revealed by research conducted by America’s Voice. It’s not just that Speaker...
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