Mi Familia Vota proudly announces and welcomes Carlos Duarte as Chief Development Officer. Duarte has been with the organization in key roles for over 10 years, providing him immeasurable institutional knowledge and a clear vision for expanding a revenue stream to fund robust programs nationwide that are building Latino political power.

The Trump administration is acting quickly to dismantle the few and fragile protections that keep migrants from being completely abased. This administration would seek to manipulate laws that would further deny children and migrant adults any human rights protections.

NHLA, a coalition of 45 of the nation’s preeminent Latino advocacy organizations, calls on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) within the Department of Homeland Security to withdraw the final regulation in its entirety. The Trump administration announced that it will move forward to add more life-saving public benefit programs to the public charge list, thereby expanding the number of people who would be ineligible for lawful permanent residence.

The Trump administration published new rules that greatly restricts eligibility for lawful permanent residence and citizenship based on immigrants’ use of government services, household income, education, and other criteria.

The pervasive, hateful rhetoric specifically demonizing and targeting immigrants and Latinos – labeling them criminal, accusing them of invasion -  has emboldened far-right extremists and white supremacists to become violent. Mi Familia Vota’s goal has been and continues to be to build resilience against that type of hate within the Latino community by deliberately reaching out to its members to build their own wall - one of civic participation.

In preparation for the 2020 Census and the presidential elections, Mi Familia Vota is excited to announce the roll-out of its new strategic engagement plan to advance Latino civic participation and immigrant rights in Florida and at the national level. 

A second federal judge issued an order that permanently stops the Trump administration from including a census question on the 2020 Census questionnaire. This order puts a final stop to these efforts: the census questionnaire will be printed without the citizenship question and the administration cannot use the census process to ask about citizenship.

Mi Familia Vota is celebrating Latino Conservation Week July 14-20. Latinos have an enormous power to influence our environment with over 58 million Latinos living in the U.S. The environment is one of the priority voter issues within the community and Mi Familia Vota is engaging constituents across the country in activities to promote clean energy, reduced pollution, and environmental conservation.

Samuel Molina, state director for Mi Familia Vota was sworn in as a member of the Immigrant Affairs Committee on Monday, July 15th. Members of this Committee will be advising the City of Fresno on issues related to immigrants. 

President Trump had no plausible explanation for adding a citizenship question to the census and our community saw right through his efforts to undermine and suppress our political power and representation. We call on President Trump and his supporters to stop pursuing racist intimidation tactics and to instead work with – not against – our community to equitably strengthen our nation.

Mi Familia Vota families partner with Moms Clean Air Force for a DC “Play-In” demanding lawmakers solve our climate crisis. This annual event will showcase visionary leaders including members of the Global Climate Strikes who will join moms and Members of Congress on stage to demand action on climate.

The Supreme Court announced that it will hear legal challenges to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, as requested by President Trump. We urge Congress to provide permanent legal protections in the form of pathways to citizenship for our undocumented community at large.