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(Arlington – VA) According to President Trump, he will be “signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States.” The president said this executive order comes “in light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens.” Daniel Garza, President of The LIBRE Initiative, […]

Picture this:   You’re a governor. It’s September 2019 and President Donald Trump has recently announced that you and other governors are now required to provide consent and opt-in to whether your states will continue accepting refugees through the national Refugee Resettlement Program, rather the previous practice of requiring  governors to opt-out if they no longer wished to participate.    The president says you have a few […]

For 50 years, the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program has been one of the most effective ways of carrying out our refugee policies where we welcome refugees fleeing oppression, persecution, violence and genocide. As a result, people from all over the world have been able to live and work here legally, while also filling critical labor […]

Americans for Prosperity Foundation and The LIBRE Institute submitted a public comment opposing a proposal from the Department of Homeland Security to raise immigration and naturalization benefit request fees and improperly transfer part of the fee revenue to Immigration and Customs Enforcement . This fee increase, along with other fee increases in the past 12 years, shows that […]

Arlington, Va. – Today, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) announced the launch of a direct mail and digital campaign thanking Republican and Democratic lawmakers for their bipartisan efforts aimed at improving our country’s agricultural industry through The Farm Workforce Modernization Act 2019. View an example mailer here. Americans for Prosperity SVP of Policy Jorge A. Lima issued the […]

Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity Board Member, Mark Holden, joined the National Immigration Forum’s Conference, “Leading The Way”, to discuss how we can apply, to immigration reform, lessons learned from the success of the First Step Act in criminal justice reform. Also, earlier this week, Morning Consult published an op-ed by Mark Holden on this […]

Americans for Prosperity Board Member Mark Holden | Morning Consult Americans are convinced that Washington is broken. As someone who was a part of an ideologically diverse coalition that included people like Van Jones and Newt Gingrich, to help enact the First Step Act last year, I’m convinced that bipartisanship can still prevail. … Despite repeated attempts, Congress has made no […]

Trump threatened tariffs on Mexico if they didn’t do more to control their side of the border. But this “negotiating tactic” has the potential to be the biggest tax increase on the American people since WWII, and undermines all the work that went into crafting the USMCA. We talk with Kevin Hernandez from the Libre […]

PHOENIX, AZ – Today, Stand Together, The LIBRE Initiative, and Americans for Prosperity joined Microsoft and a broad range of partners to bring Dreamers and other immigrants to New York City to ring the NASDAQ Opening Bell and celebrate Immigrant Heritage Month. After doing so, these immigrants – including both Dreamers and recipients of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) […]