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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TRUMP AND JOHNSON UNITE TO PUSH DANGEROUS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC THREAT Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are holding a press conference at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence to promote a cynical bill solving a non-existent issue. As reported by USA Today, the proposal is “aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting.” But...
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PRESIDENT BIDEN TO VISIT FAMILIES OF BALTIMORE VICTIMS President Biden is set to visit Baltimore later today and will meet with the families of the six immigrant workers who lost their lives in last month’s tragic accident. Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, said that during a time...
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KEY BRIDGE TRAGEDY A REMINDER OF THE RISKS ESSENTIAL WORKERS TAKE Six immigrant workers are missing or confirmed dead after a freighter lost power and pummeled into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore this week, causing it to collapse into the Patapsco River. The men were part of...
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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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