This July 4, let’s remember that America’s story can’t be told without appreciating the invaluable contributions of immigrants throughout our history. As our Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas notes, many of these same immigrants help put food on the table for all of us to enjoy on Independence Day and...
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THE NOT-SO-GREAT DEBATE In the end, immigration was not a main topic in the presidential debate in Atlanta on Thursday. As we had been hoping (and hope all journalists are doing), Jake Tapper of CNN asked a direct question of Donald Trump about his plans for mass deportation, specifically...
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HISTORIC DAY FOR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES AND ADVOCATES This week, President Biden announced a plan to use his authority to protect roughly half a million spouses of U.S. citizens, including eligible DACA recipients, from deportation and provide them with access to work authorization and a possible path to permanent residency...
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AS BIDEN ANNOUNCES FURTHER RESTRICTIONS, CALLS FOR AFFIRMATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE ACTIONS GROW The long-anticipated Biden executive actions to further restrict access to asylum were announced on Tuesday and came under near universal condemnation, both from the pro-immigrant advocacy movement and the far-right anti-immigration movement. At America’s Voice, we did...
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TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON: WE TOLD YOU SO Back in 2018 and 2019, America’s Voice was warning the news media and the public that “Donald Trump and the Trump organization are running and engaging in a multi-state criminal conspiracy.” Their trafficking in undocumented immigrants and falsification of business...
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ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WHITE NATIONALIST-INSPIRED MASSACRE, REPLACEMENT THEORY HAS ONLY GONE MORE MAINSTREAM This week marked two years since a racist gunman motivated by white nationalist and antisemitic “replacement” and “invasion” conspiracy theories gunned down ten Black Americans in Buffalo. Their names were Ruth Whitfield, Roberta Drury,...
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STRONG ADVOCACY WEEKS On Friday, America’s Voice wrapped up a strong couple of weeks for pro-immigrant advocates who showed up to push President Biden and Democrats to take action to protect immigrants. Beginning last week with the TPS convening and May Day action anchored by CASA, the momentum carried through this...
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LATINO LEADERS STAND UP TO TRUMP’S MASS DEPORTATION PLAN Leaders from Voto Latino, UnidosUS Action Fund, Mi Familia Vota, Latino Victory Project, and America’s Voice gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Friday to announce plans to combat the threat that twice-impeached former president Donald Trump...
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TRUMP’S CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMENTS ARE TELLING REFLECTION OF WHITE NATIONALIST GRIPPING GOP Donald Trump again tried to minimize the significance of the deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally where white supremacists chanted “Jews will not replace us” and later murdered counter-protester Heather Heyer, this week referring to that horrifying weekend as “little...
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U.S. MUST STOP HAITIAN DEPORTATIONS On Thursday, the U.S. reinstituted deportations to Haiti, sending dozens of Haitians back to dangerous conditions in the nation via the first deportation flight to the nation since January. “Why is the U.S. exacerbating chaos and cruelty in a country already grappling with a...
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