Washington, DC, November 30, 2022 – More key voices – including from red states like Texas – are calling on Congress to deliver on legislation that provides permanent solutions for long-settled immigrants, including DACA recipients who are vulnerable to deportation and others like Dreamers, TPS holders and farm workers. According to Douglas Rivlin, Communications Director […]
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Profiles in Cowardice: As DeSantis Treats Venezuelan Refugees As Political Pawns, Florida GOP Leaders Fail A Major Leadership Test
Washington, DC, September 16, 2022 – Yesterday, the dominant national story centered on the dehumanizing and transparently political stunt by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to charter two planes full of Venezuelan refugees to Martha’s Vineyard – alerting Fox News and a small contingent of MAGA Republicans, but failing to inform the local community or authorities. Also yesterday, […]
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David Torres: The failed “walls” of anti-immigrant rhetoric
Washington, DC, March 9, 2022 – Below is a column by David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week. Trump’s border wall has turned out to be useless and unusable—at least for the purposes devised by his sick mind, before and […]
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Central America Hurricanes Eta & Iota’s Impact Highlight Need for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from the U.S.
Washington, DC, December 15, 2020 – The aftermath of hurricanes Eta and Iota continue to cause mounting devastation in Central America, specifically in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Reuters reports that the natural disasters have cost more than $10 billion in damages. Separately, Aon’s monthly Global Catastrophe report, highlighted by the Insurance Journal, says the estimated cost within the region […]
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America’s Voice: We Celebrate Along With Dreamers As DHS Officially Re-Opens New Applications for DACA
Washington, DC, December 8, 2020 – Yesterday, we highlighted how American public sentiment, led by the courage and first-person testimonials of Dreamers themselves, created the climate for the impressive work of the movement’s litigators to win in the courts to keep DACA alive. These victories have come despite a relentless, multiyear attack on DACA from […]
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Public Opinion on Immigration a Rare Point of National Consensus in a Divided Electorate
Washington, DC, November 10, 2020 – Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley of NBC continue to report on horrifying new details related to family separation. The total number of separated children whose parents’ whereabouts are unknown has risen to 666. It’s more evidence that the moral stain of family separations may be with us forever. In […]
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Douglas Rivlin: Why Stephen Miller is Singularly Unfit to Draft a Speech on Racial Unity
Washington, DC, June 10, 2020 – In response to reports that President Trump is considering a speech to the nation on race and unity and that advisor Stephen Miller is drafting the speech, we offer the following reminders why Stephen Miller is singularly unfit to write such an address. Even if it’s billed a speech […]
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Pili Tobar: Trump Administration Restarts Family Separations
Washington, DC, May 18, 2020 – The Trump administration’s family separation policies embodied a shocking level of cruelty and callousness. Remember that the administration was prepared to rip as many as 26,000 children away from their parents, with no plans for reunification, and they were aware of the emotional and mental health traumas children separated […]
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On Call, Senators Schumer, Durbin and Menendez Highlight Role of Immigrants on the Frontlines of COVID-19
Washington, DC, April 28, 2020 – Earlier today, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) gathered on a press call with DACA and TPS immigrant workers who are fighting the corona virus on the front lines to highlight the urgent need to protect Dreamers and TPS holders, extend their work authorizations, […]
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Trump Makes End Run Around Congress to Fundamentally Restructure Decades-Old Immigration Law
Washington, D.C. April 23, 2020 – Yesterday, President Trump issued a proclamation that fundamentally restructured immigration law in place since 1952, at least for the next 60 days or longer if the proclamation is extended, as contemplated in the proclamation. For almost 70 years, with some minor amendments, the Immigration and Nationality Act has strongly favored family unity […]
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In the Midst of a War on the Coronavirus, Trump and Stephen Miller Redirect Funding to Their War on Immigrants
Washington, DC, April 15, 2020 – President Trump is more focused on his political standing and his re-election prospects than on the once-in-a-lifetime global health crisis that should be his all-consuming focus. Trump and Stephen Miller have diverted billions of dollars from the nation’s readiness to prevent and respond to COVID-19 by funding immigration enforcement […]
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Trump’s Continued Deportations Threaten to Accelerate Pandemic in Haiti
Washington, D.C. April 7, 2020 – Observers are highlighting how the Trump administration is recklessly continuing to deport people back to countries such as Haiti and Guatemala – despite the obvious public health risks and potential to accelerate the spread of Covid-19 in countries that are ill-prepared to deal with a major outbreak. As reported […]
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Pili Tobar: Supreme Court Blesses Administration’s Systemic Ban on Working Class Immigrants
Jan. 27, 2020 – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States of America issued a decision lifting the injunction issued by multiple judges on the Trump administration’s “public charge” policy to restrict permanent legal status for immigrants who have used public benefits or those who in the determination of the Trump Administration may someday […]
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Douglas Rivlin: Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade Expands to Ensnare More and More American Citizens
January 7, 2020 – The Trump Administration’s relentless efforts to scapegoat, scare, and both keep out and kick out immigrants includes a mounting series of big brother and big government tactics – supposedly anathema to conservatives and Republicans – that are ensnaring U.S. citizens. Witness: DHS to force DNA collection from people in immigration custody […]
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Trump Winery Fires Undocumented Workers — After Harvest Season
January 3, 2020 – A recent Washington Post story adds new details to the story of the Trump business empire’s reliance on and exploitation of undocumented workers, reporting that recent firings of longtime undocumented employees at a Trump family winery in Virginia took place only after the busy harvest season concluded. Writing for Daily Kos, […]
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Douglas Rivlin: As Trump Betrays Our Values and the Constitution, Federal Courts Stand Up for Both
Washington, DC, Oct. 15, 2019 – As Trump’s unilateralism and nativism go into overdrive, a series of court rulings offer a reminder why the judicial branch is an essential backstop for a different vision of the country. Since last Friday, five federal courts have ruled against the Trump public charge rule, while a federal judge […]
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David Torres: The United States on the border of its own barbarism
Washington, DC, Oct. 4, 2019 – In a new column, David Torres, a veteran journalist and prominent commentator in Spanish-language media, takes an unflinching look at the dehumanizing cruelty of the administration’s war on immigrants, and what it says about the descent and decline of the United States and under Donald Trump. The title of […]
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Trump Clamps Down on Cubans Seeking Safe Haven and U.S. Citizenship
Washington, D.C. Sept. 23, 2019 – Despite tough talk about the Cuban regime and the harm it continues to inflict on its own citizens, President Trump and his administration have reversed decades of policy to protect Cuban refugees from return to Cuba where they may be persecuted. The administration is deporting more and more Cubans, […]
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Douglas Rivlin: Trump: Who is Going to Pay for the Wall? European Allies are Going to Pay for the Wall!
Sept. 9, 2019 – In response to the public outrage that the Trump administration is raiding $3.6 billion from 127 military construction projects for the sake of a campaign promise, the administration is now proposing that Europe picks up the tab. No, not the Onion. As the Washington Post reports, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said […]
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Maribel Hastings: Trump’s attacks. Will they ever end
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, August 29, 2019 – Wow. Another day for Donald Trump to exude lies and stupidities. Will it ever end? The former is a play on the cretinous Tweet from Trump earlier this week when asking if atmospheric phenomena will ever stop. He said: “Wow! Yet another big storm heading to Puerto […]