Late Friday U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen filed a memorandum in NAACP v. Trump, one of the several court challenges to President Trump’s September 4, 2017 cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, purportedly “clarifying the Department’s position” on its rescission of DACA.  The memorandum is in... Continue »
As directed by the President’s executive order issued on Wednesday, the Trump Justice Department has filed a request on Thursday to amend a federal court order – the “Flores Agreement” – to allow the administration to detain children for indefinite periods of time. Currently, such indefinite detention is in... Continue »
In the midst of the Trump administration’s inhumane, immigration insanity, policy and legal experts gathered to discuss the whirlwind of this week’s immigration developments and their implications. This past week, Trump signed an executive order on family separation that will indefinitely jail families all while Congress continues to scramble... Continue »
A Is For America podcast
The latest episode of our podcast, “A is for America”, features an interview with Ur Jaddou, the director of DHS Watch, a project of America’s Voice that focuses on holding the Trump Administration accountable for its anti-immigrant practices. We spoke about Trump’s practice of separating children from their families,... Continue »
And Trump & His Administration Don’t Seem to Care The Trump administration has ripped more than 2,300 children from their parents as a result of its “zero tolerance” policy. While we await if and how the President’s change of direction on family separation plays out at the border, the... Continue »
Here are four key points to bear in mind regarding the House Immigration bill – the effort led by Speaker Ryan that reinforces Trump’s lying, panders to the Freedom Caucus, rolls the so-called Republican moderates, and does nothing to solve the crises caused by their President. This entire partisan... Continue »
Public outrage against the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their families exploded this week, with Americans of all different stripes and from all over the country publicly standing against the policy. Countless editorials and op-eds have weighed in, police chiefs and pediatricians have condemned the practice, and dozens... Continue »
A recording of today’s call is available here This week, the nation has been transfixed on the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents along the southern border. In addition, the U.S. House will vote on two anti-immigrant bills. At the crux of both is President Trump’s... Continue »
The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, on where we are today with respect to the family separation crisis: Yes, Americans rose up and forced the President to step back. No, we are not close to being done with this crisis. Yes, the... Continue »
The GOP is Determined to Keep Hurting Dreamers and Immigrant Families In his latest op-ed for HuffPost, Juan Escalante breaks down the GOP’s scramble to enact legislative solutions for immigrant families and Dreamers. In reality, it seems that Republicans only seem to care about waging a war on immigrants.... Continue »