PRESS RELEASES
13 SEPT 2024
Local Arizona Latino Leaders Respond to Trump’s Hateful Rhetoric And Mass Deportation Agenda in Arizona
ARIZONA – Yesterday in Arizona, Donald Trump doubled down on his hateful rhetoric against immigrants and touted his plan to tear millions of families apart through mass deportations. Trump again amplified false claims about Haitian and other immigrants at his rally, despite evidence that the rhetoric was already inciting real-life violence, and baselessly claimed the country was under “invasion.” In a subsequent interview with Telemundo, he doubled down on this “crisis” narrative and suggested that his cruel policy proposals would benefit Arizona communities. In reality, polls confirm voters’ preference for a pathway to citizenship (61% support) over forced removal (39% support). Experts agree that Trump’s deeply unpopular mass deportation agenda would wreak havoc on the state’s economy and workforce, separating thousands of families in the process. Families across the state, particularly in Latino and immigrant communities, are already feeling the fear of being torn apart.
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12 SEPT 2024
Ahead of Arizona Visit, Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric All But Confirms A Return to Family Separation
ARIZONA - As Donald Trump heads to Tucson, he and his campaign refuse to answer a question that is critical to Arizona families: will he willfully separate families via mass deportations in a new administration? Recent waffling from Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance and policy advisor Stephen Miller, a key architect of the 2018 zero tolerance policy that separated over 5,000 children from their parents, indicate a deliberate effort to sidestep the true consequences of their cruel immigration agenda. Despite their continued evasion, the Trump campaign’s endless vitriol against immigrants on the campaign trail, in political advertisements, and most recently on the debate stage, all but confirm a revival of the deeply unpopular practice (58% oppose).
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11 SEPT 2024
VP Harris Exposes Trump’s Dangerous Immigration Agenda At Debate
WASHINGTON - Last night, in her first debate with Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris exposed Donald Trump’s extremist agenda on immigration and called out his endless crusade to demonize immigrant communities for political gain. Her vision, which would both secure the borderandprovide a pathway to citizenship for long-settled immigrants in the U.S., offers a clear contrast to Trump’s “bloody” vision for mass deportations.
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10 SEPT 2024
The SAVE Act: A GOP Effort to Suppress Voters and Undermine Our Democracy
WASHINGTON - Today, Donald Trump doubled-down on shutting down the government over the SAVE Act: a bill that would effectively suppress the votes of American citizens, particularly naturalized citizens and communities of color. Disguised as an election integrity measure, the bill would impose burdensome documentation requirements that would leave millions of eligible voters disenfranchised. Several leading civil rights organizations have voiced their opposition to the bill, with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights calling it “unnecessary and dangerous.” The GOP House leadership intends to bring the bill for a vote this week.
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9 SEPT 2024
Ahead of Debate, Nevada Leaders Condemn GOP Lawsuit Against Keeping Families Together Program
WASHINGTON - Nevada leaders, including Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and lawmakers from the Nevada Latino Legislative Caucus and the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Nevada Legislative Caucus, are strongly condemning a GOP-led lawsuit challenging the Biden-Harris administration's "Keep Families Together" program. The program, which Senator Cortez Masto called a “gamechanger” for Nevada families,” would provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens. Recent polling demonstrates that 59% of battleground voters, including 73% of Hispanic voters, support the program.
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9 SEPT 2024
Harris Unveils Balanced Vision on Immigration While Trump Threatens “Bloody” Mass Deportations
WASHINGTON - Ahead of tomorrow’s presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris released her immigration policy platform, in which she acknowledges that the “immigration system is broken and needs comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.” The platform stands in stark contrast to the dystopian policy vision laid out by Donald Trump, who this weekend threatened the “bloody” mass deportation of millions of immigrants in the U.S.–a plan Jamelle Bouie says would be “one of the largest forced displacements of people in human history.” When faced with a choice, voters overwhelmingly prefer a path to citizenship (61% support) for undocumented immigrants over mass deportations (39% support).
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6 SEPT 2024
Family Separation: The Two Words Trump and J.D Vance Won’t Say Out Loud But Are Vowing to Reinstate
WASHINGTON - Immigration will take center stage at Tuesday’s Presidential Debate in Philadelphia, where Donald Trump is expected to recycle his baseless, anti-immigrant attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris. He will falsely accuse her of supporting “open borders” and paint a tired, inaccurate image of a nation under siege by immigrants. However, despite his persistent lies on Harris’s record on the issue, Trump is unlikely to reveal the true consequences of his own immigration agenda, which would separate hardworking families across the nation.
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6 SEP 2024
Trump’s Plan for Mass Deportations is a “Plan to Vaporize the Economy”
WASHINGTON - With two months until Election Day and less than a week until the next presidential debate, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance continue to trumpet their unpopularmass deportation agenda that includes enforcing the “largest domestic deportation in American history.” If elected, Donald Trump plans to enact draconian immigration policies that would not only separate families but also suffocate the country’s economic growth by exacerbating the labor gap in the U.S. workforce and costing the U.S. billions of dollars in taxes contributed by immigrants.
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28 AUG 2024
ICYMI: New Gallego Ad Models Balanced Approach on Immigration
WASHINGTON - The Gallego for Senate campaign recently released a new Spanish-language ad targeted at Latino voters that expertly demonstrates how Democrats can champion a popular, balanced approach on immigration. In the ad, Gallego touts both his commitment to border security and paths to citizenship for long-settled immigrants like Dreamers.
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26 AUG 2024
ICYMI: PA Leaders Show Support for Immigration Agenda That Keeps Families Together
WASHINGTON - Over the weekend Mitzi Colin Lopez, a DACA recipient from Pennsylvania who was also First Lady Jill Biden’s guest at the 2023 State of the Union, and Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA -12) made the case for a balanced vision on immigration, that includes a path to citizenship for long-settled undocumented immigrants, including Dreamers like Mitzi. This popular approach enjoys 67% of support from Rust Belt voters.
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23 AU 2024
Vice President Harris Highlights Plans to Keep Families Together in 2025
WASHINGTON - Tonight, in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Harris addressed her vision for immigration in 2025. She underscored our country's history as a nation of immigrants and highlighted the urgent need for immigration reform that includes both securing our border and creating an earned path to citizenship.
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22 AUG 2024
ICYMI: Latino Democratic Leaders Champion A Unifying Message on Immigration
CHICAGO – This week at the Democratic National Convention, Democratic leaders including Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), Representatives Veronica Escobar (D-TX) and Pete Aguilar (D-CA), and Senate candidate Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)emphasized the need for Democrats to champion a popular, balanced approach to immigration reform–one that combines border security with paths to citizenship, including Dreamers and other long-settled undocumented communities.
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16 AUG 2024
Applications Open Monday for Biden-Harris Plan to Keep Families Together
WASHINGTON - Today the Biden-Harris administration issued application guidance on their popular executive order aimed at providing relief to undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens. Individuals can begin the process of keeping their families together starting on Monday, August 19th.
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12 AUG 2024
ICYMI: Harris Highlights Popular Approach to Fixing Immigration System
WASHINGTON - In Arizona and Nevada, VP Harris lays out popular and balanced immigration policy that would combine order at the border with a path to citizenship
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6 AUG 2024
Immigration Hub Statement on Vice President Harris Selecting Governor Tim Walz as Her Running Mate
WASHINGTON - Today, Vice President Harris announced her pick of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate in the upcoming presidential election. In response, Kerri Talbot, Executive Director of the Immigration Hub, issued the following statement.
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2 AUG 2024
ICYMI: Immigration Hub Poll in Semafor: “Harris should focus on paths to citizenship, group says”
WASHINGTON - Today, Immigration Hub’s new memo with recent poll findings shows voters overwhelmingly support executive action that provides legal status and paths to citizenship for Dreamers and undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens was featured in Semafor. Voters in battleground states continue to support a balanced approach to immigration that includes a forward vision for the immigration system in contrast to the Republican Party’s mass deportation plans.
21 JUL 2024
Immigration Hub’s Kerri Talbot Responds to President Biden’s Announcement
WASHINGTON - Today, in an historic announcement, President Joe Biden stepped down as Democratic presidential nominee and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
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17 JUL 2024
J.D. Vance Joins Architect of Family Separation at RNC as Biden-Harris Roll Out Action to Keep Families Together
WASHINGTON – Tonight, GOP Vice Presidential candidate Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) will give remarks at the Republican National Convention, formally joining a ticket that promises to wreak havoc on immigrant communities and American families alike. He’ll share the stage with Thomas Homan, a former Trump administration official and architect of the cruel “zero tolerance” policy that saw children separated from their parents at the border. As Vance and his extremist allies prepare to lay out their vision for an even more egregious assault on immigrants in 2025, including mass deportations and sweeping raids, Vice President Kamala Harris joined President Biden today in announcing the roll out of their immigration actions that will keep families together, empower Dreamers to live and work in the U.S., and provide access to crucial services like legal representation.
16 JUL 2024
NEW: Voters Prefer A Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants Over Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans
WASHINGTON - Today, as first reported in Politico, the Immigration Hub released a memo addressing the supposed popularity of mass deportations. New polling conducted by Global Strategy Group and BSP Research shows that, when provided a choice, voters overwhelmingly reject (only 39% in favor) the trademark Trump mass deportation policy that would result in American families across the nation torn apart. The data show that providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the U.S. remains a far more popular solution (61% in favor) among battleground voters. Among Hispanic voters, the margin is even higher (22% favor mass deportation vs. 78% support pathway to citizenship).
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16 JUL 2024
NEW SIDE-BY-SIDE ANALYSIS: How Trump-Vance’s Project 2025 Agenda Threatens American Democracy and Biden-Harris’s Pivotal Progress on Immigration
WASHINGTON - Today, the Immigration Hub released a side-by-side analysis highlighting the policies that President Biden and Vice President Harris delivered to rebuild the nearly collapsed immigration system that they inherited from the Trump administration and how a Trump-Vance administration implementing much of Project 2025 will undermine and undo the progress made under the current administration. The Biden-Harris administration addressed legal pathways and the root causes of migration with over 500 executive actions, including over 300 to undo harmful Trump-era immigration policies that separated families, jeopardized the lives of Dreamers, and instigated chaos at the southern border. These pivotal actions have strengthened America’s border security, allowed over 2 million immigrant workers and families to get on path to legal status, created effective processes to reduce and manage migration, and fueled the country’s economic growth.
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15 JUL 2024
Senator J.D. Vance is No Moderate; Vance Champions Trump’s Extreme Anti-Immigrant Agenda
WASHINGTON- Today, Donald Trump announced Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his Vice Presidential pick. The Ohio lawmaker, who’s supported several anti-immigrant bills in the Senate and previously defended Trump’s comments about migrants “poisoning the blood of America,” is aligned with Trump’s extreme immigration agenda that would rip families apart and see long-settled immigrants deported en masse.
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12 JUL 2024
NEW: AdImpact Data Shows Massive GOP Ad Spending on Immigration in Second Quarter of 2024
WASHINGTON – As the Republican National Committee (RNC) releases a new party platform that formalizes mass deportations and a militarized border as top priorities, new data from AdImpact confirms that right-wing candidates, PACs, and other political groups were responsible for 82% ($40,875,517) of all immigration-related television broadcast advertisement dollars ($49,771,563) in the second quarter of 2024. Republicans and right-wing groups nearly doubled their Q1 spending, topping $80,366,054 on 548 immigration-related ads since the start of 2024.
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28 JUNE 2024
Biden Keeps More Families Together With Haiti TPS Redesignation
WASHINGTON - Today, President Biden announced a redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals living in the U.S., allowing even more families to stay together following his executive action doing the same for Dreamers and long-settled immigrants married to U.S. citizens.
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27 JUNE 2024
NEW: Latest Polling Reveals How Democrats Can Inoculate Anti-Immigrant Misinformation and Galvanize Voters
WASHINGTON - Today, as first reported in the Hill, Vera Action and the Immigration Hub released a new poll, conducted by PerryUndem, that surveyed voters across the country on immigration, the border, and crime. The new data suggest that, while there is a communication gap between Democrats and voters on immigration, President Biden and the party have an opportunity to counter Republicans on their attacks and inoculate misinformation on “migrant crime” with an affirmative message centered on safety, security, and stability for all.
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18 JUNE 2024
Biden Acts to Keep American Families Together With New Administrative Action
WASHINGTON - Today, President Biden will announce executive action that will keep mixed-status families together. The protections will extend legal status and work authorization to long-settled undocumented immigrant populations, including spouses and children of U.S. citizens.
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4 JUNE 2024
Immigration Hub Responds To President Biden’s Executive Action on the Border
WASHINGTON – Today, the Biden administration will announce executive action that will limit the ability of migrants to seek asylum between ports of entry.
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8 MAY 2024
83 House Democrats Join Call Urging Biden to Expand Pathways to Citizenship for Long-Settled Undocumented Immigrants
WASHINGTON - Today, as first reported in NBC, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Nanette Barragán (D-CA) led 82 other House Democrats in urging President Biden to take executive action that would provide long-settled undocumented immigrants in the U.S. a path to citizenship and work authorization. The letter, which complements a similar effort from Senate Democrats in March, offers recommendations for President Biden to act within his power to protect and unify mixed-status American families before the end of his first term.
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7 MAY 2024
ICYMI: New Biden Campaign Ad Highlights Trump’s Cruel Family Separation Policy And Warns Against Horrors of His 2025 Immigration Agenda
WASHINGTON - Today, the Biden campaign released a new digital ad that aims to remind voters of Donald Trump’s infamous family separation policy, in which nearly 4,000 children were ripped from the arms of their parents. The ad, launched on the anniversary of the zero tolerance policy, highlights a key GOP vulnerability ahead of November and contrasts the cruelty against Biden’s humane immigration agenda–which includes efforts to reunite the separated families.
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30 APR 2024
As Trump Continues to Threaten Mass Deportation, Strong Voter Support for Legal Pathways Grows
WASHINGTON - As immigration remains a top issue for voters heading into the November elections, recent news coverage has highlighted voters’ continued desire for bold administrative action on the issue. In particular, there is strong support (66%) for a balanced approach that advances both border security measures and pathways to citizenship and legal status for undocumented immigrants.
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25 APR 2024
NEW BATTLEGROUND SURVEY: Voters Strongly Support Providing Long-Settled Undocumented Dreamers, Caregivers, and U.S. Citizen Spouses A Path to Citizenship, Oppose Trump Policies
WASHINGTON – Today, as first reported by POLITICO, the Immigration Hub released the results of a new poll conducted by Global Strategy Group (GSG) and BSP Research that surveyed voters in key battleground states (AZ, GA, MI, NV, NC, PA, WI). Results demonstrate that voters overwhelmingly support President Biden taking executive action to provide paths to citizenship and legal status for long-settled undocumented immigrants, including workers, caregivers, and spouses of U.S. citizens.
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16 APR 2024
Extremist GOP Lawmakers Advance Baseless Impeachment Attempt Against Secretary Mayorkas to Senate
WASHINGTON - Today, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will deliver the House-approved articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate, where the charges are likely to be dismissed. Policy and constitutional experts say the charges are based on policy differences and cannot serve as a basis for impeachment under the Constitution.
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5 APR 2024
Immigration in America Is Fueling Record Economic Growth
WASHINGTON - As record job growth continues under President Biden, leading economic voices are highlighting the crucial role that immigrants are playing in the labor market. The data adds to a growing chorus of elected officials, industry leaders, and advocates that are calling for expanded work authorization and protections that would allow both newly arrived and long-settled immigrants to strengthen local economies and invigorate cities. Despite an enduring hyper partisan divide in Congress that has consistently left comprehensive immigration reform on the cutting room floor, immigrants continue to prove themselves essential to American prosperity by mitigating the fallout of a tight labor market and high inflation.
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19 MAR 2024
Immigration Hub Responds to SCOTUS Decision Allowing the Implementation of Texas SB 4 Anti-Immigrant Law
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration’s request to pause the implementation of SB 4 while the law is challenged in lower courts. The extreme and anti-immigrant law would authorize state officials to take over the responsibilities of federal immigration authorities and permit them to detain, arrest and deport any individual suspected of crossing the border without authorization.
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14 MAR 2024
NEW MEMO: Voters’ Strong Support for Legal Pathways for Dreamers and Immigrant Families Presents President Biden An Opportunity
WASHINGTON – Today, the Immigration Hub released a new memo, featuring the results of a new battleground poll, conducted by Global Strategy Group, that demonstrates overwhelming support for creating legal pathways for Dreamers and undocumented immigrants in the U.S. and border security measures that would increase capacity and resources at the border. The memo also outlines critical administrative actions that the Biden administration can take to provide long-settled immigrants in the U.S. access to legal pathways. By offering up immigration solutions, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have an opportunity to appeal to critical voting groups.
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13 JUNE 2024
12th Anniversary of DACA Highlights Urgent Need for Executive Action
WASHINGTON - June 15th marks the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which granted temporary relief from deportation to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.