The Hill: Republicans weigh options on immigration By Mike Lillis Politico: House GOP plots immigration strategy By Seung Min Kim The Hill: DHS chief calls for budget certainty after French attack By Ben Kamisar CNN: Paris attack quickly becomes Washington funding fight By Eric Bradner Reuters: Republicans target security...
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In Washington, DC, the hot topic on immigration involves the newly sworn-in Republican Congress and whether they will really continue to alienate Latino voters by pushing for more ways to kill executive action. But in California, it’s a completely different story, as tens and thousands of immigrants have begun...
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Next Week GOP Moves to Do Away With Fixes to Our Broken Immigration System That didn’t take long. With all the happy talk inside the beltway regarding bipartisan legislative progress, one of the top priorities of the Republican leadership is to take action on legislation that would maximize deportations...
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In case it isn’t crystal clear to Republicans that they have a demographic problem, and that their years-long alienation of Latino and minority voters will come back to haunt them, the Center for American Progress has released this study on the GOP’s significant obstacles in 2016. The number of minority...
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The Hill: Obama presses Mexico to help stop illegal immigration By Justin Sink New York Times: Mexico’s Leader, Peña Nieto, Praises Obama on Immigration By Michael Shear and Randal Archibold Washington Post (The Fix): The GOP’s major 2016 problem — in 3 maps By Aaron Blake MSNBC: Can the...
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The 2016 primaries are still over a year away, but you wouldn’t know it by the list of right-wing candidates flocking to Iowa this month for Steve King’s so-called “Freedom Summit.” Iowans have the coveted role of casting the first votes toward selecting each major party’s presidential nominee, which earns...
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As of later today, the Republican Party will officially control both congressional chambers. GOP leaders in both the House and Senate have pledged to demonstrate their ability to govern in a responsible manner. Yet when it comes to immigration policy, it is already clear the “new” Republican majority looks...
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio has not been having a good time in court lately. Not only is he in serious trouble with the law himself at home in Arizona, but his lawsuit against President Obama’s executive action was tossed out two days before Christmas. And now, yet another federal judge has issued...
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Houston Chronicle: Anti-illegal immigration groups resurge on border By Lomi Kriel Fox News Latino: Republicans ready to block immigration order as its supporters vow to fight back Daily Kos: Immigration advocates gleeful at prospect of GOP trying to block Obama’s executive actions By Kerry Eleveld Vox: The massive prisoner’s...
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Today, immigration, civil rights, and labor groups joined the legal effort to defend President Obama’s recent executive action on immigration by filing an amicus (“friend-of-the-court”) brief in the case, State of Texas v. United States. Twenty-five states are currently suing the President over executive action, a case which will receive...
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