Experts Discuss Data Released in New Report, Results of Gubernatorial Primary, and Role of Immigration as Mobilizing Factor for Latino Voters in Colorado Home to one of the fastest growing Latino electorates in the country, Colorado is set to steal the national spotlight in House, Senate and Gubernatorial races...
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Calls on President Obama to take Executive Action On the House floor this morning, leading congressional champion of immigration reform Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) called out House Republicans for failing to act on immigration reform in this Congress. He gave them a red card – which in soccer means...
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If you thought yesterday’s Homeland Security hearing on the children at the border was a long parade of Republican posture-taking, wait until today’s House Judiciary Committee spectacle, titled nothing less than “An Administration Made Disaster: The South Texas Border Surge of Unaccompanied Minors.” Here are the witnesses: Mr. Tom Homan, Executive Associate...
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In their rush to score political points over Obama for the children at the border story, many Republicans are going way, way too far — see, for example, Darrell Issa and his campaign to restart the deportation of DREAMers who have lived here all their lives, in response to children...
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This morning, Rep. Luis Gutierrez made headlines from the House floor when he announced the conclusion of the three-month window Republicans had to pass immigration reform. In April, Gutierrez told House Republicans that the next few weeks represented a must-take opportunity for Republicans if they were serious about immigration legislation....
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In Response to 8-Yr Olds Fleeing Violence Today, GOP Says Let’s Deport 20-Yr. Old College Students Who Have Lived in America for Years Elise Foley of Huffington Post reports that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is circulating a sign-on letter to House Republican colleagues demanding that President Obama end the...
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Today is primary day in Colorado, which means that the moment of truth is at hand for Tom Tancredo and the GOP. As we’ve written about before, Tom Tancredo and his anti-immigrant history is so toxic for Republicans that all kinds of weird stuff is happening in order to try...
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At today’s Homeland Security Committee hearing (“Dangerous Passage: The Growing Problem of Unaccompanied Children Crossing the Border“), House Republicans demonstrated an insistence on using the children at the border story to score cheap political points, regardless of the facts. More than once, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson emphasized the fact that the...
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