NYTimes Story Highlights America’s Voice Tracking on How GOP is Mainstreaming Dangerous “Invasion” Conspiracy

NYTimes Story Highlights America’s Voice Tracking on How GOP is Mainstreaming Dangerous “Invasion” Conspiracy

Editorial credit: Gil C / Shutterstock.com Read Jazmine Ulloa’s “Talk of an Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Grows in Republican Ads and Speech”  and see accompanying NYTimes video HERE Link: https://bitly.cx/ZMR Washington, DC — A New York Times story this weekend, “Talk of an Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Grows in Republican Ads and Speech,” spotlights America’s Voice research documenting the rising use and dangerous […]

Congress Expands Warrantless Surveillance of Immigrants Traveling to the US

Congress Expands Warrantless Surveillance of Immigrants Traveling to the US

By Adriel Orozco | Immigration Impact On April 19, forty minutes after the ostensible deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Congress passed H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA). President Biden quickly signed it into law hours later. RISAA reauthorizes Section 702 for two years, provides modest reforms, and includes several controversial changes […]

Clarke and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Lead Letter to Biden Administration Urging Protections for Haitian Migrants and Humanitarian Assistance for Haiti

Clarke and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Lead Letter to Biden Administration Urging Protections for Haitian Migrants and Humanitarian Assistance for Haiti

Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke. Editorial credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09), along with Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20), led a group of 50 lawmakers urging the Biden Administration to redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), pause on deportations back to Haiti, extend […]

Immigrants Contribute Billions to Federal and State Taxes Each Year

Immigrants Contribute Billions to Federal and State Taxes Each Year

By Steven Hubbard | Immigration Impact Without fail, each Tax Day a prevalent myth resurfaces that conceals the truth about immigrants’ contributions to federal, state, and local taxes. Bolstered by social media and other outlets, it misleadingly asserts that immigrants, particularly those who are undocumented, evade taxes. The facts don’t back up these claims. Immigrants, […]

How Immigrants Are Helping Boost the U.S. Job Market Without Affecting Inflation

How Immigrants Are Helping Boost the U.S. Job Market Without Affecting Inflation

By Rob Wile | NBC News Blockbuster job growth continues to power the U.S. economy, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting 303,000 payrolls added in March. Usually, such strong growth might signal that inflation could pick up. If employers see more demand for goods and services, they need to hire more workers — and if there aren’t […]

“The Real Story of Immigrants and Immigration in America” – America’s Voice Previews President Biden’s Baltimore Visit

“The Real Story of Immigrants and Immigration in America” – America’s Voice Previews President Biden’s Baltimore Visit

Editorial credit: OogImages / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice Washington, DC — This afternoon, President Biden will visit the site of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and meet with the families of the six men who lost their lives. The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “Joe Biden has been […]

Excessively High Rents Are a Major Burden for Immigrants in US Cities

Excessively High Rents Are a Major Burden for Immigrants in US Cities

By Madhuri Sharma, Mikhail Samarin | The Conversation Rents across the U.S. have climbed to staggering levels in recent years. Millions of renters spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities, a situation that housing experts call being cost burdened. High rents affect almost all segments of the population but are an especially heavy burden for immigrants, […]

DiNapoli: NYC Immigrant Workforce Below 2015 Peak

DiNapoli: NYC Immigrant Workforce Below 2015 Peak

Federal Policies Still Weighing on City’s Labor Force The size of New York City’s immigrant workforce was flat over nearly a decade, according to a new report from New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Through 2023, the foreign-born labor market grew 18.5% since 2015 nationally, while New York City’s declined 0.6%, according to data analyzed from […]