At the Colorado Independent today is this great column from Mike Littwin, who asks important questions about the GOP’s absurd response to the children fleeing violence crisis. For instance: since the children are running away from horrific violence, sexual abuse, and gang wars, how exactly is ending a program...
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The Same Game Plan Used by the Republicans on Every Immigration Debate When it comes to addressing the ongoing child refugee crisis at the border, Republicans and their allies have solidified a strategy of trying to score political points, driving memes that are fact-free, and then ending with a...
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Associated Press: Immigration crisis: Children migrant issue turns political Fox News Latino: Sen. Ted Cruz Moves Front And Center In GOP Response To Border Crisis Associated Press: Migration spotlights Mexican ‘coyote’ smugglers Roll Call: Obama Convenes Meeting on Border Crisis as Flood of Migrants Slows Politico: Issues pile up...
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h/t the Imagine 2050 blog at Center for New Community: Stephen Steinlight, the Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, along with his CIS cohorts have said some pretty outrageous things before. But this time he may really have gone too far. Speaking at the Highlands Tea Party in...
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Building on the post we published this morning: check out pictures of this weekend’s anti-immigrant flops juxtaposed with photos of our pro-immigrant rallies last October:
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Amidst continued calls from the GOP for shotgun proceedings that would result in expedited deportations of all but a handful of child refugees, a series of opinion pieces challenge our leaders and our nation to respond with the ideals of fairness and compassion, and a number of news pieces...
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Today, immigration reform advocates with United We Dream are holding a mock funeral for the Republican Party to signify the GOP’s impending electoral doom. Republicans know they need to attract more Latino voters to stay viable as a party — yet the House has refused to take action on...
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Associated Press: Child migrant surge shifts politics of immigration Washington Post (Plum Line): Morning Plum: How Republicans are trying to hamstring Obama on immigration Mother Jones: Ted Cruz Is Playing a Long Game on Immigration Politico: Obama’s foes on border crisis: Democrats The Hill: Obama border bill divides Dems...
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Nativist opponents of immigration reform were supposed to make their big stand this last weekend, spurred on by protests against children fleeing violence in Murrieta, California. Mostly led by two internet groups, Make Them Listen and Overpasses for America, extremists had rallies planned in every state. And then — as...
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A number of anti-immigrant “rallies” were held this week in response to children fleeing violence and coming to the US border. Below is a photo from the rally that Steve King attended in Council Bluffs, Iowa: (Here’s another photo from the same event.) We, of course, flashed back to this...
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