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Media advisory

Virtual Event: The Year in Immigration: The Harms to Children, Our Economy, and Legal Immigration

December 17, 2025
Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

 

***MEDIA ADVISORY***

Virtual Press Event: Thursday, December 18 at 12 PM Eastern

RSVP to press@americasvoice.org for details

Washington, DC —On Thursday, December 18 at 12PM ET, America's Voice and Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas will convene a virtual discussion, with elected officials and policy experts to wrap a busy year on immigration and to take stock of the harms of the anti-immigrant agenda on children, the economy, our communities, and legal immigration. 

Speakers include Raleigh, NC, Mayor Janet Cowell, a former state treasurer, to discuss the impacts of the mass deportation agenda on communities and our economy; Donna Norton of MomsRising and Chicago-based pediatrician Dr. Minal Giri to discuss the harms on children and families; and Sarah Pierce of Third Way to offer a big-picture policy assessment of the year on immigration, including the Trump administration’s attacks on legal immigration pathways. Vanessa Cárdenas of America’s Voice will offer scene setting remarks and moderate the discussion.

Following speaker remarks, a Q&A session with assembled media will be held. To RSVP and receive details on how to join Thursday’s virtual event, please email press@americasvoice.org 

WHAT: Virtual Event: The Year in Immigration: The Harms to Children, Our Economy, and Legal Immigration

WHEN: Thursday December 18 at 12:00 PM Eastern

WHO: 

  • Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director, America's Voice 

  • Janet Cowell, Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina 

  • Donna Norton, Executive VP of MomsRising

  • Sarah Pierce, Director of Social Policy at Third Way 

  • Dr. Minal Giri, Pediatrician based in Chicago and co-chair of the Illinois AAP Refugee Immigrant Child Health Initiative

HOW: 

RSVP to press@americasvoice.org for details on how to join the virtual event

 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.