DACA Updates: Trump Seeks to Strip Dreamers of ACA Eligibility; Fifth Circuit’s Ruling Goes into Effect

DACA Updates: Trump Seeks to Strip Dreamers of ACA Eligibility; Fifth Circuit’s Ruling Goes into Effect

By Gabe Ortiz, America’s Voice Last year, the Biden administration did the right thing by issuing a rule that expanded ACA coverage to nearly 130,000 uninsured DACA recipients. Not only do Dreamers pay billions in tax dollars every year to help fund federal programs like Social Security and Medicare, it makes public health sense because a healthy […]

White House Makes Clear: Any Immigrant Without Legal Status is “Criminal” to be Deported

White House Makes Clear: Any Immigrant Without Legal Status is “Criminal” to be Deported

Editorial credit: David Peinado Romero / shutterstock.com    U.S. citizens, Tribal members, and veterans among those being detained in Trump ICE sweeps   Washington, DC — Yesterday delivered several reminders that the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agenda is sweeping in its scope, harm and indiscriminate nature, viewing all immigrants here without legal status as “criminal” and comfortable […]

Trump’s Anti-immigrant Crusade Doesn’t Even Respect Citizens

Trump’s Anti-immigrant Crusade Doesn’t Even Respect Citizens

  By Maribel Hastings, America’s Voice | Editorial credit: John Gomez / shutterstock.com  Will Donald Trump carry out his Machiavellian anti-immigrant promises? Last Sunday, on NBC’s Meet the Press, he reiterated that mass deportations are a fact, starting with “criminals,” and that he would abolish  U.S. citizenship by birth. But he also affirmed that he […]

Ruling Blocks ACA Health Insurance for ‘Dreamers’

Ruling Blocks ACA Health Insurance for ‘Dreamers’

Editorial credit: Susan Montgomery / shutterstock.com    A federal judge in North Dakota has temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s effort to allow DACA recipients—immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children—to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace. The ruling affects “Dreamers” in 19 states where Republican attorneys general filed a […]

Why Undocumented Immigrants Should Be Terrified of Donald Trump

Why Undocumented Immigrants Should Be Terrified of Donald Trump

By Brian Figeroux, Esq. | Editorial credit: David Peinado Romero / shutterstock.com  Donald Trump’s policies created an unprecedented climate of fear for undocumented immigrants, leaving a lasting mark on immigration policy and public sentiment. His return to power further heightens the stakes for these vulnerable communities. It is imperative to recognize the human cost of […]

Pay Attention to the Vile Things Trump Would Do – Not Just the Vile Things He Says – on Immigration

Pay Attention to the Vile Things Trump Would Do – Not Just the Vile Things He Says – on Immigration

Editorial credit: Phil Mistry / shutterstock.com Washington, DC — New must-read commentary from Jonathan Blitzer in The New Yorker, “Trump’s Dangerous Immigration Obsession,” captures that while it’s hard not to become desensitized by the sheer volume of ugly anti-immigrant lies and conspiracies being spouted constantly by Donald Trump, JD Vance and allies, the costs and consequences of their […]

Republican-Led States Sue to Block DACA Recipients from Accessing Affordable Health Insurance

Republican-Led States Sue to Block DACA Recipients from Accessing Affordable Health Insurance

By Emma Winger | Editorial Credit:  Lev Radin/ shutterstock.com  A group of Republican-led states, headed by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, have sued to block a new rule that allows Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients to access health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is yet another legal assault on Dreamers, […]

Immigrant ‘Dreamers’ Face Severe Disruption If Court Wrecks DACA

Immigrant ‘Dreamers’ Face Severe Disruption If Court Wrecks DACA

WASHINGTON APRIL 18: Supporters of President Obama’s DAPA and DACA policies on immigration and deportation gathered at the Supreme Court during oral argument in Washington, DC on April 18, 2016. (Shutterstock) By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Ellen M. Gilmer, Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Advocates for more than 600,000 undocumented immigrants who entered the US as children […]

NEW POLL: Voters in 10 Key States Support a Pathway to Citizenship for Dreamers, TPS Holders, Farmworkers and Essential Workers

Polls conducted in Ariz., Colo., Ga, Mich., Mont, N.C., Penn., Wis, W.Va.

NEW POLL: Voters in 10 Key States Support a Pathway to Citizenship for Dreamers, TPS Holders, Farmworkers and Essential Workers

WASHINGTON – A new poll from the end of April into early May 2021 in 10 key states shows significant support among likely voters, including independents, for a pathway to citizenship. In addition, the poll shows that voters continue to support the job President Biden is doing to get our country back on track, and in […]