From voting or voicing support for ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to signaling willingness to trigger a government shutdown and even impeachment proceedings over potential executive action on immigration, national Republicans continue to lurch hard right on immigration—staking out policy positions more extreme even than...
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The Center for Community Change has a great blog post today at Buzzfeed: Far right-wing anti-immigrant extremists have come out this summer to capitalize on the child refugee crisis happening at the border. As young children flee for their lives, anti-immigrant protesters have attempted to use this moment as...
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With observers trying to assess the political implications of President Obama taking executive action on immigration, here are three things to consider: Republicans will overreact and overreach, triggering a focus on a government shutdown and a push toward impeachment: As a range of stories highlighted yesterday, Republicans are already...
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Check out this blog today from Markos at Daily Kos on why Obama should use his executive powers to protect families from deportation. For Obama and the Democrats, such a move is “win-win-win,” because it’s good policy and good politics. For Republicans, however, a move from Obama could really doom...
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Below is a press statement from DRM Action. It relates to this encounter between DREAMers and Rep. Mike Coffman: This week, a Dreamer confronted Congressman Mike Coffman (R-Col) on his stalled efforts to pass legislation to allow Dreamers to serve in the military. With Congress failing to act, the DREAM Action...
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In the latest episode of the Huffington Post’s Drinking & Talking, our own Frank Sharry joined Eric Cantor’s former deputy chief of staff Doug Heye, Think Progress’ Esther Lee, and Huffington Post’s Elise Foley to discuss immigration legislation in this Congressional session and why Republicans have still not passed reform. Some highlights:...
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How much are DREAMers killing it this week? Watch the clips below, from Al Sharpton on MSNBC and All in With Chris Hayes, on how DREAMers recently confronted Sen. Marco Rubio:
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Coffman Reveals He Has Zero Interest in Solving Immigration Issue, Making Executive Action from President the Only Solution Rep. Mike Coffman (R,CO-06) has spent the last year walking back his once declared support for immigration reform. His primary strategy for distracting voters on his flip flop has been to...
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As we’ve written about many times before, the US response to children fleeing violence and arriving at our borders has not always been welcoming. In fact, the latest trend among opponents of immigration reform has been to document what “happens” after these children are processed and sent to temporary...
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Fox News Latino: Rubio: Executive Action On Immigration Would Be Disastrous For Democrats Associated Press: Obama Crafts Legal Rationale for Immigration Steps Washington Post: White House considers proposals to sharply increase legal immigration Washington Post: Obama’s immigration decision could roil 2014 election USA Today: 5 things Obama may do...
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