+Click here to host your own DAPA Dinner Yesterday, the Pinto family of Virginia met with Rep. Don Beyer for a “DAPA Dinner,” a campaign to highlight how DAPA and expanded DACA would benefit immigrant families all across the nation. The dinner, organized by the Virginia Immigrant Coalition for Immigrant Rights,...
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English (en español al final de la página): Medium (Opinion): Now It’s Chief Justice Roberts’ Turn To Take Care By David Leopold Medium (Opinion): Three Takeaways as Anti-DAPA Amicus Briefs Start to Roll In By Lynn Tramonte YubaNet: Frank Sharry: The Argument Over Immigrants and Immigration Is (Mostly) Over...
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Today’s the deadline for Republicans to file their amicus (friend of the court) briefs in opposition to DACA and DAPA. It’s the first real chance we’ve had to see how many Republicans will line up behind Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and the anti-immigrant nativist wing of the Republican Party....
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Cross-posted from Medium: In February Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. lamented that “partisan extremism is damaging the public’s perception of the role of the Supreme Court, recasting the justices as players in the political process rather than its referees.” Roberts was referring to the very real danger of...
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On January 19, 2016, the United States Supreme Court announced it would hear arguments in the case of Texas v. the United States. The justice granted a request from the Obama administration to review the Fifth Circuit decision upholding Judge Andrew Hanen’s injunction blocking implementation of DAPA and expanded DACA....
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It’s no secret that Donald Trump has built his empire on the backs of immigrants, both documented and undocumented. Over three decades ago, it was a large group of undocumented laborers — “nicknamed the Polish Brigade because of their home country” — who demolished the building that would become...
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English (en español al final de la página): Medium (Opinion): The Argument Over Immigrants and Immigration Is (Mostly) Over By Frank Sharry Christian Daily: Immigration reform 2016 news update: Majority of Americans want undocumented immigrants to stay in the US By Rosemarie Alba New York: With New Effort, Group...
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And the Pro-Immigrant Forces Are Winning Surely, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are onto something, the unerring pundits say. Clearly, their extremist views and unforgiving rhetoric regarding immigrants tap into a powerful vein of public sentiment. Could it be that the support they are activating is just the tip...
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As the Supreme Court is just weeks away from hearing oral arguments in the United States v. Texas immigration case, an immigrant family in Virginia is ready to show just how personal the stakes are right now. On Monday, the Pinto family will break bread with Rep. Don Beyer...
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A new project is highlighting the 30th anniversary of historic immigration reform legislation. Passed by a bipartisan Congress and signed by Republican President Ronald Reagan in November 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) put some three million undocumented immigrants on a path to legalization. To commemorate the...
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