It’s no secret that Republicans relentlessly exploit the issue of immigration during campaign season to activate their white nationalist base to vote. But they took their rhetoric one step further before the last midterm elections by deploying a strategy of bussing migrants to states controlled by Democrats, using human beings as pawns to foment chaos and advance the “crisis” narrative they count… Source Source / Read More: Biden Admin Needs to Confront GOP’s and Its Own Immigration Policy Failures
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AOC Casts House Democrats’ Sole Vote Against Omnibus Spending Bill
Citing the increased immigration enforcement and military funding it contains, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday cast the sole Democratic House vote against a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package. In the final vote of the 117th Congress, House lawmakers passed the sweeping spending bill 225-201-1, with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) voting “present” and nine Republican lawmakers… Source Source / Read More: AOC Casts House Democrats’ Sole Vote Against Omnibus Spending Bill
Community-Based Programs Offer Alternative to Detention for Asylum Seekers
This story was originally published at Prism. CW: This article contains descriptions of violence and mentions of suicide. Community-based programs for immigrants and asylum-seekers remain grossly underfunded despite a desperate need for their services, especially as the U.S. government drags its feet on implementing any such program on the federal level. In 2017, the Trump administration shut down… Source Source / Read More: Community-Based Programs Offer Alternative to Detention for Asylum Seekers