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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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Vanessa Cardenas @vcardenas.bsky.social · 4w ago

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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Vanessa Cardenas @vcardenas.bsky.social · 4w ago

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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Vanessa Cardenas @vcardenas.bsky.social · last mo.

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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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · last mo.

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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