Jul 14, 2014
Latino Leaders React to Republican Candidate’s Call to Import Arizona-Style Immigration Law in Colorado While the Colorado GOP may have breathed a sigh of relief last month when anti-immigrant firebrand Tom Tancredo lost the gubernatorial primary, now the supposedly-mainstream candidate, Bob Beauprez, is taking up Tancredo’s mantle by aligning...
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In contrast to many Republicans — and some Democrats — insisting that children fleeing violence should be sent back immediately, despite the many dangers they fled from in the first place and despite a Bush-era law that gives them due process, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-MD) has encouraged compassion for...
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At Politico Magazine today is a piece from Jose Antonio Vargas, highlighting the realities and restrictions of life when you’re an undocumented American. Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of America’s most famous and recognized immigrants ever since he came out in this 2011 New York Times piece, traveled...
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Washington Post (Plum Line): Border crisis could pose major test for John Boehner Bloomberg Businessweek: New York Is Offering Undocumented Immigrants IDs Wall Street Journal: Immigrant Children Face a Long Journey Upon Arrival NPR: An Update On Young Immigrants: From D.C., The Border And Beyond Wall Street Journal: Flood...
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At Telemundo this week is a three-part series about immigrant families facing deportation in Northeast Ohio, and HOLA, the advocacy group fighting to keep them together. Part 1 of the series is here, and part 2 is here (the third part airs tonight). Northeast Ohio is part of the ICE district...
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At Politico Magazine today, Bill Scher details how Speaker Boehner refused to act on immigration reform — and as a result brought his party to the threshold of impeaching the president (which many suggest would have horrible consequences for the GOP). In Scher’s article, a too-clever-by-half Boehner tried to...
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Advocates Discuss State of Play on Immigration Reform, Administrative Action, and the Emergency Supplemental With the door having closed on immigration reform in Congress, the President is now compelled to step up and fill the vacuum. The increase in Central American children arriving at our borders, fleeing gangs and...
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Republicans killed immigration reform, and this week they are once again demonstrating their talent for obstructionism with reports that they may block Obama’s request for more money to address the children at the border. Republicans have complained about the children, demanded that they be sent back, tried to connect the...
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Washington Post (Plum Line): Happy Hour Roundup Vox: America’s child migrant crisis, explained in 2 minutes (VIDEO) Politico: What to know: ‘08 immigration law Associated Press: Obama aims to shift border crisis political debate Washington Post: Border-state lawmakers work on plans to reverse federal policy on young migrants Associated...
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Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) was told today by House GOP leaders that there will be no vote on immigration this year. In an interview with Greg Sargent of the Washington Post, Diaz-Balart expressed dismay at the GOP leadership’s decision: “We have a historic opportunity to fix a system everyone...
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