Trump’s Plan for Massive Immigration Purges and Detention Camps Promises Chaos for All

Trump’s Plan for Massive Immigration Purges and Detention Camps Promises Chaos for All

Editorial credit: Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice | February 21, 2024 Vanessa Cárdenas on a new WaPo mass-deportation article and Niskanen Center analysis of Heritage Project 2025 immigration plans: “What’s at stake goes well beyond immigration policy and is instead central to larger questions of who we are as a country and our […]

The Cost of US Citizenship is about to Rise

The Cost of US Citizenship is about to Rise

By Lauren Villagran | USA Today The cost of applying for U.S. citizenship is about to rise. More than 9 million legal permanent residents in the United States are eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship but haven’t done so, according to the Office of Homeland Security Statistics. On April 1, the cost of the application to naturalize is […]

What Exactly Is a Sanctuary City and What Does That Mean for NYC?

What Exactly Is a Sanctuary City and What Does That Mean for NYC?

By Gwynne Hogan Rachel Holliday Smith | February 13, 2024 The January brawl between NYPD officers and migrants in Times Square that went viral has sparked a national firestorm over long-standing sanctuary city policies that restrict cooperation between federal authorities and local law enforcement. Republicans seized on the attack to argue that sanctuary laws should be changed. […]

ICYMI — New Yorkers are Stepping Up to Support Migrants Where Elected Officials are Failing

ICYMI — New Yorkers are Stepping Up to Support Migrants Where Elected Officials are Failing

Editorial credit: NYC Russ / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice | February 9, 2024 New York, NY — A recent article in The New York Times highlights how New Yorkers are helping migrant families find housing and ensuring their children have access to basic needs. New Yorkers understand the mutual benefits behind helping migrants and that if the state wants […]

Completing an Unprecedented 10 Million Immigration Cases in Fiscal Year 2023, USCIS Reduced Its Backlog for the First Time in Over a Decade

Completing an Unprecedented 10 Million Immigration Cases in Fiscal Year 2023, USCIS Reduced Its Backlog for the First Time in Over a Decade

Editorial credit: Michael Vi / Shutterstock.com WASHINGTON— Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is releasing end of fiscal year (FY) 2023 data that illustrate the agency’s progress in meeting its strategic priorities. The USCIS workforce has worked tirelessly over the past year to uphold America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility by […]

Experts Wrap Busy Immigration Week with Lessons for Political and Policy Debate Moving Forward

Experts Wrap Busy Immigration Week with Lessons for Political and Policy Debate Moving Forward

By America’s Voice | February 9, 2024 Washington, DC —On a press call held today, leaders from immigration and Latino-focused organizations joined with the Congressional Integrity Project to assess the details and implications of a busy week on immigration policy and politics – including what the right lessons are from the failed impeachment vote of DHS Secretary […]

Senate Deal Would Significantly Transform Border Policy

Senate Deal Would Significantly Transform Border Policy

By Adriel Orozco | Immigration Impact The “Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024” was released on February 4. For months, a bipartisan group of senators negotiated the compromise bill, which proposes significant changes to asylum and border policy to release billions in foreign military aid. The $118 billion bill would provide the president a new emergency expulsion authority […]

GOP’s Language of “Deporting” DHS Sec. Mayorkas Reveals Ugly Truth in Their Anti-Immigrant Extremism

GOP’s Language of “Deporting” DHS Sec. Mayorkas Reveals Ugly Truth in Their Anti-Immigrant Extremism

By Gabe Ortiz | February 6, 2024 | America’s Voice Apparently it’s not enough for House Republicans to continue lurching forward with their baseless, unprecedented impeachment effort against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It appears they want to kick him out of the country he serves as well. Tucked in Republicans’ final report is language […]

Global Refuge Statement on Bipartisan Senate Immigration Legislation

Global Refuge Statement on Bipartisan Senate Immigration Legislation

Washington D.C. – Senate negotiators have released long-awaited legislative text and summary of a bill linking emergency assistance for Ukraine and Israel to sweeping restrictions on asylum protections and $18.5 billion in funding for border operations, receiving communities, and hiring of additional asylum officers, border agents, and immigration judges. Specifically, the legislation would create a new authority that, with narrow […]

On Senate Bill Text: “Most Important Letters Are the Ones Overhanging this Legislation: D.O.A.”

On Senate Bill Text: “Most Important Letters Are the Ones Overhanging this Legislation: D.O.A.”

By America’s Voice | February 4, 2024 Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the introduction of the Senate immigration and border bill: “When poring over the Senate bill text, the most important letters are the ones overhanging this legislation: D.O.A. Donald Trump and many other […]

1 7 8 9 10 11 34