When Republicans want to hear “expert” testimony on anti-immigrant views, there is apparently only shop in town: the John Tanton network. Tanton, of course, is the white nationalist who founded or helped found three key anti-immigrant groups, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (or FAIR, a hate group), the Center...
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“GOP Holds Security Hostage to Immigration” In Congress, Republicans continue to insist that funding for the Department of Homeland Security be held up unless the President and Senate Democrats agree to end deferred action programs that benefit immigrants with deep roots in America. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch...
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La Opinión (Editorial): Who To Listen To in The GOP? Dallas Morning News (Opinion-Texas): Texan’s tough border security bill draws protests — from the right By Todd Gillman Huffington Post: Immigration Advocates Try To Assuage Fears Over Executive Action By Elise Foley Cronkite News Service: Critics force immigration reform...
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Jan 30, 2015
Sen. Durbin, DREAMer, Legal Expert Talk Legislative and Judicial Landscape on Immigration Listen to a recording of today’s call here. On this week’s Office Hours press call, longtime immigration reform champion Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) was...
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International Business Times: Obama Executive Actions Fight Shouldn’t Be Tied To Homeland Security Funding, Ex-DHS Secretaries Say By Harold Koplowitz Politico: Rand Paul ‘secret tape’ dings Jeb, Hillary on dynasty By Mike Allen The Atlantic: Scott Walker Isn’t Sorry By Peter Beinart Political Wire: Huckabee Advocates Path to Citizenship...
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As Pema Levy points out in a post at Mother Jones today, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is the Senate’s equivalent of Steve King, and is just as much an anti-immigrant hardliner though with slightly less of a tendency for repeated gaffes. The thing though, is that the Senate GOP leadership has...
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Earlier this month, House Republicans made funding for the Department of Homeland Security contingent on overturning DACA and DAPA — and now they’re waiting for Senate Republicans to do the same. More than half a million DACA-mented young people in the last two years have flourished as a result...
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The DREAMers are at it again! Yesterday, before the start of Loretta Lynch’s confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee, DREAMers with United We Dream chased down a number of SJC Republicans and asked them what they thought about Steve King calling young immigrants “deportables.” “Am I a deportable?”...
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All three former Secretaries of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including two Republicans, are calling on Republicans to stop insisting that homeland security funding be tied to the GOP’s ideological battle against the President’s immigration actions. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and...
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Cross-posted from Latino Decisions: Is it possible for a politician to be too successful at the ballot box? This appears to be the case with Nevada’s Republican Governor Brian Sandoval. Thanks to a favorable political environment, low turnout among many traditional Democratic constituencies, and the inability of Nevada Democrats...
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