It’s been a year since we stopped Pedro’s deportation. But when his renewal came up this year, immigration officials denied it and are trying deport him instead. Pedro could have been eligible for the relief President Obama had been considering, but now that he’s said he won’t act until...
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Support for Legal Status, Path to Citizenship and Immigration Reform Remain Strong, Especially When Given Details Five public polls that included questions regarding immigration policy have been released in the past week. Three were national polls, sponsored by the New York Times/CBS News, Washington Post/ABC News and NBC News/Wall...
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The Senate, via last year’s bipartisan supermajority vote in favor of comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, has already spoken about its policy preferences for immigrants and DREAMers. But apparently that’s not enough for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who today is trying to pull a Steve King by...
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More than 200 police jurisdictions nationwide have ended their cooperation with automatic ICE holds, and Long Island is now one of them. Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco this week ended his department’s cooperation with ICE holds, in which immigrants who are detained by police traffic or other minor violations are automatically...
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Fusion: 5 races where immigration matters VOXXI: Dolores Huerta: Obama was right in delaying action on immigration NBC News: Wilmer Valerrama: Voting Is A Tribute To Your Culture EFE: Wilmer Valderrama Blasts Obama, Democrats For Inaction On Immigration Washington Examiner: Guatemalan violence may spark new wave of illegal immigration...
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YubaNet (California – Opinion): Op-Ed: Lynn Tramonte: California’s Prop 187 Relegated to History Books: Will Obama and Democrats Read the Whole Chapter? Wall Street Journal: Hispanic Caucus Backs Off Thanksgiving Deadline on Immigration BuzzFeed: Unpersuaded By White House, Hispanic Caucus Set To Demand Obama Act On Immigration After Election...
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The following is a press release from Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer‘s office: Over a year after the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill with a strong bipartisan vote of 68-32, House Republicans have yet to take action to fix our nation’s broken immigration system. Despite their empty rhetoric about immigration...
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If Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) runs for president in 2016, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that one of the issues he’ll he demagoguing on is immigration. Cruz has already spent a considerable amount of time this month railing about executive action on immigration reform. He called a press conference demanding...
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Frustration and anger can translate into inaction and paralysis, or they can fuel change. I prefer the second option because if participation of Hispanics in elections were equivalent to our population numbers, we’d be in a very different place, especially if we voted in larger numbers on every level,...
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It might be a symbolic gesture at this point, but in the immigration debate symbolism matters. California’s notoriously anti-immigrant Proposition 187—the ballot initiative that spawned a movement and inspired untold numbers of leaders to enter organizing and politics—has been removed from California state law. It was already unenforceable thanks...
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