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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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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