Vanessa Cardenas
@vcardenas.bsky.social
Executive Director @americasvoice.bsky.social / Musings on disinfo, immigration, politics, Latino voters. #ShePersisted and @freepress.bsky.social Board
Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s mass deportation agenda led by armed, masked ICE agents has become an economic drag, a virtual tax on every American family and community, whether they’ve ever thought about immigration or not.
NEW REPORT: America’s Voice Introduces The “ICE Tax" Report, Revealing How ICE-Led Mass Deportation Drives Up Prices, Eliminates Jobs, and Empties Main Streets - America's Voice
Washington, DC – America’s Voice today launched “End the ICE Tax”, a new campaign built around a comprehensive report and website documenting how the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda is ...
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@vcardenas.bsky.social reflects on a year of documenting the devastating consequences of Trump and Stephen Miller’s mass deportation agenda, and the warning signs that were there from the start. We cannot allow this cruelty to become normalized. americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/one-year-o...
@americasvoice.bsky.social's @vcardenas.bsky.social: "Whether it's killing American citizens like Alex Pretti or Renee Good, or immigrants like Lorenzo Salgado Araujo or Juan Sebastian Guerrero, the deaths at the hands of our government cannot be forgotten or repeated."
"Whether it’s killing American citizens like Alex Pretti or Renee Good or immigrants like Lorenzo Salgado Araujo or Joan Sebastian Guerrero, their deaths at the hands of our government cannot be forgotten nor repeated." - @vcardenas.bsky.social
"To see and feel the full force of our government relentlessly working to purge immigrants from our country no matter the cost is shocking and unprecedented. And as we have seen, the impact is not just on immigrants – it's on American citizens and America’s communities." - @vcardenas.bsky.social
While ICE agents shoot fathers on their way to work and this administration guts its own oversight, Senator @cortezmasto.senate.gov is advancing common-sense solutions that aim to help build an immigration system that actually works.
Americans Reject the Deadly Toll and Deliberate Chaos of ICE Violence - America's Voice
New Legislation Offers a Common-Sense Way Forward to Reform Immigration Washington, DC – Today, America’s Voice endorsed U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D-NV) Fairness for Immigrant Families A...
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Instead of focusing on lowering costs for American families, this Administration is intent on furthering chaos and cruelty as ICE is reportedly gearing up to hunt down our Haitian neighbors in the communities that depend on them most.
With a Clear Path to End TPS for 350,000 Haitians, Trump Readies ICE for Crackdown - America's Voice
Washington, DC – Today, the court-ordered reprieve that kept Temporary Protected Status in place for an estimated 350,000 Haitians expires, clearing the way for the administration to enforce the Supre...
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Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are intent on continuing their relentless, violent and chaotic effort to delegalize immigrants so they can deport as many as possible.
A Win, For Now: Judge Blocks Trump's Bid to Strip Immigrants of Their Right to Work - America's Voice
Washington, DC – A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stripping tens of thousands of asylum seekers and Temporary Protected Status holders of their ability to w...
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An agency with a growing body count doesn't get to investigate itself, yet that's exactly what this administration is doing.
A Coverup in the Making: Trump Administration Ends FBI Oversight of ICE Shootings - America's Voice
Washington, DC – This weekend, the New York Times reported that FBI field offices were quietly told the bureau will no longer investigate confrontations involving ICE agents, shifting that responsibil...
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This was never about public safety. When an administration demands thousands of arrests a day & promises mass deportations at any cost, tragedies become more likely. We’ve seen the consequences in the killings of Johan Sebastián & Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. The American people deserve accountability.
Todd Blanche is putting local law enforcement at risk and diminishing public confidence in public safety by his embrace of ICE tactics.
Trump's AG Pick Todd Blanche Has Some Explaining to Do: Four Key ICE Accountability Questions - America's Voice
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the first of two days of hearings on his confirmation to lead the Justice Depart...
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In America we don’t kill people in the streets because of the way they look. This pattern of unaccountable killings is unconscionable and unconstitutional and must end, period.
No One Is Safe: Trump's ICE Kills Another Father On His Way to Work - America's Voice
Washington, DC – Following Monday’s deadly shooting in Maine, the latest reporting confirms that Johan Sebastián, a 25-years-old husband and father who was authorized to work in the United States, was...
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President Trump, DHS, and Congress need to answer for why this administration has decided that hitting deportation quota matters more than human lives.
ICE Kills Again in Maine: A Deportation Quota's Deadly Toll - America's Voice
Washington, DC – Today, an ICE agent shot and killed a person in Biddeford, Maine. ICE and DHS have offered no explanation for why the agent opened fire. This marks the second time in six days that an...
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ICE killed a law-abiding husband and father who was working toward legal status, and who had been part of his community for 30+ years, simply because he resembled someone else.
From Kavanaugh Stops to Kavanaugh Killings: Witnesses Confirm ICE Lied About Death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo - America's Voice
Washington, DC – Earlier this week, an ICE agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as he drove to pick up his construction crew in Houston’s Magnolia Park. ICE claimed he rammed an agency vehicle...
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How many more families have to bury a father, a mother, a son before Trump and Miller’s mass deportation machine is held accountable? Congress and DHS owe the Salgado family the truth about what happened, and they owe every family in this country an end to the killing in our streets.
Same Script, Same Lawlessness: Trump and Miller’s Killing Machine Marches on – This Time in Houston - America's Voice
Washington, DC – On Tuesday morning, masked ICE agents in unmarked vehicles stopped Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as he drove to pick up his construction crew in Houston’s Magnolia Park. Minutes later, an ag...
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Today’s rulings will make our immigration system more lawless, more chaotic, and more dangerous, giving this administration more power to turn away asylum seekers, delegalize immigrants, and put families at risk of deportation to places our own government warns are unsafe.
Trump can begin deportations of Syrian, Haitian TPS holders, Supreme Court says
Writing for the court majority, Justice Samuel Alito that under the TPS law, the president has unreviewable authority to end the program, without intervention from the courts.
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Who belongs in America? Join @vcardenas.bsky.social and @davidleopold.bsky.social for a conversation on birthright citizenship and the growing attacks on legal status that are putting millions of immigrants at risk. 📅 Tomorrow 12PM ET 🎥 Tune in live: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
This vote also lays bare the priorities of this Administration and their allies in Congress: They answer to Trump, not to the people who sent them there to advocate on their behalf.
House Republicans Double Down on Reconciliation Bill: No End to Trump’s Immigration Cruelty in Sight - America's Voice
Washington, DC – Earlier today, House Republicans passed the reconciliation bill providing approximately $70 billion in additional funding for federal immigration enforcement agencies. This massive in...
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This administration's priorities are upside down and Americans are suffering the consequences.
$70 Billion More for Deportations: No End to GOP’s Cruelty and Waste of Taxpayer Funds - America's Voice
Washington, DC – As the Associated Press detailed last week, House Republicans look set to pass legislation that would provide nearly $70 billion in additional funding for immigration enforcement agen...
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Senate Republicans are choosing loyalty to Trump/Miller over protecting American communities.
Senate Republicans Chose Loyalty to Trump Over Protecting American Communities; Hand Trump, Miller Another Blank Check to Fund Dangerous Mass Deportation Agenda - America's Voice
Washington, DC – After a recess delay, Senate Republicans early Friday morning passed a reconciliation package that would provide roughly $72 billion in new funding for ICE and CBP through fiscal year...
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A year into this madness and the choice for all Americans is clear: condone violence, chaos, corruption or fight for accountability and basic American values.
One Year Later: The LA Raids Were the Preview. The Cruelty That Followed Is the Playbook. - America's Voice
Washington, DC — One year ago, federal immigration raids in Los Angeles triggered days of protests and the deployment of the National Guard, marking a significant escalation in the militarization of i...
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The actors may change, but the problem remains the same: an obsession with purging America of immigrants no matter the cost to our humanity, our economy, or our values.
DHS Mullin Has Some Explaining to Do: Three Key Immigration Questions Ahead of His Congressional Testimony - America's Voice
Washington, DC — This week, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin is set to appear before both the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Appropriations Committee to discuss the...
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The Senate has a clear choice to make: side with the chaos and cruelty or listen to the American people.
Senate Returns to a Clear Choice: Fund More Cruelty and Chaos, or Listen to the American People - America's Voice
Washington, DC —The U.S. Senate returns this week to take up a funding package that would deliver more than $70 billion in new taxpayer dollars to expand mass deportation operations — on top of the mo...
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Congress has a clear choice to make when it returns next week – side with destruction or fight for the reforms that the majority of Americans are demanding.
Trump-Miller Immigration Agenda: All Chaos, Cruelty and Harm - No Course Correction - America's Voice
Washington, DC — It’s been another chaotic week on immigration that again makes clear the damage to the nation inherent to the Trump-Miller mass deportation agenda. Just take stock of the recent news....
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What we are witnessing and experiencing is shameful.
Lessons from Delaney Hall: The Normalization of Cruelty and Refusal of Basic Accountability Continues - America's Voice
Washington, DC — The Delaney Hall immigrant detention facility in Newark, NJ has become a flashpoint in recent days. Hunger strikes by hundreds of detained immigrants are drawing attention to the dang...
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Make no mistake: the administration is aware of the pain and chaos they are creating, but don’t care - it’s by design.
Three Key Takeaways from New Green Card Policy Announcement - America's Voice
Washington, DC — Last Friday, the Trump Administration announced in a memo from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that immigrants seeking green cards, including those already livin...
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While the ballroom is rightfully scorned, it shouldn’t overshadow the scale or the absurdity of gifting tens of billions more for additional masked agents kidnapping our neighbors and racially profiling our fellow Americans.
Trump's $1 Billion Ballroom is Pocket Change Compared to the $70 Billion to Make Us Poorer, Weaker and Less Safe - America's Voice
Washington, DC — This week, congressional Republicans are careening forward with their budget reconciliation bill, seeking to deliver more than $70 billion for mass deportation, on top of the more tha...
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This administration and their congressional allies continue to fuel public distrust by giving ICE a blank check to spend and no restraints on armed agents in masks terrorizing entire communities.
Sharp Contrast: States Standing Up for Public Safety & Accountability; Congress Issues ICE a Blank Check - America's Voice
Washington, DC — As the GOP moves forward on a budget gifting more than $70 billion for Stephen Miller and mass deportation (on top of the more than $170 billion windfall from last year), accountabili...
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The real lives harmed and real families destroyed by mass deportation are the most damning costs and consequences of the Trump/Miller anti-immigrant obsession.
The Built-in Cruelty of Mass Deportation - America's Voice
Washington, DC — As the GOP moves forward on a budget to gift an additional more than $70 billion on top of the more than $170 billion funded last year to fund mass deportation, the cruelty and chaos ...
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