New York Times columnist David Brooks has a great column today, lifting up some of the many reasons why House Republicans should pass immigration reform–and beating down some of their reasons for opposing it. You can read the full column here. According to Brooks, letting the House kill immigration...
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Last night, Rachel Maddow aired a segment on what’s next for immigration reform in the House, or as she called it, “the nonsense-hole that is the United States Congress.” Last month, the Senate passed its immigration bill by a 68-32 vote, which sets up a dilemma for the House,...
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LA Times: Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security chief, to head UC By Larry Gordon Huffington Post: John Boehner On Pathway To Citizenship: ‘We’re Going To Find Out’ If It Can Pass By Elise Foley Bloomberg: Boehner Sticks With Step-by-Step Approach on Immigration By Roxana Tiron and Kathleen Hunter USA Today:...
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Twitter did a collective double-take yesterday, when accounts connected to the Obama and Bush administrations tweeted at each other in an online shout-out to their respective Youtube videos making the economic case for immigration reform: These are administrations who don’t have too many policy positions in common, whose relationship might be characterized as...
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By Yoli Navas: In the 1600’s, the English founded colonies in the “New World” in order to live free with their families and to be free from religious persecution. They came to the New World in search of better opportunities. When the English government began to overtax the American...
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Steve King “Hell No” Caucus Small and Embattled; A Group in the Middle that is Likely to “Vote No, but Pray Yes”; and an Unknown Number of Reformers Depending on which article you read about the House Republican immigration meeting yesterday, you come away with a different take on...
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When most of us think about Alabama and immigration, we think about Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, Rep. Mo Brooks, State Senator Scott Beason and, of course, the viciously anti-immigrant law, HB 56, which Beason authored. But over the past several weeks, a very powerful pro-immigrant voice from Alabama has made himself heard: Rep....
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The following is a press release from the Alliance for Citizenship: On a call with press today, Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) joined immigration reform advocates to discuss this week’s meetings and the path forward for immigration reform in the House of Representatives. “Everyone knows the votes are there...
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By Amanda Bonilla: Claiming freedom, equality, justice, and citizenship as human rights, yesterday over five hundred United We Dream leaders and their family members from across the nation converged together to carry out a massive symbolic citizenship ceremony. Prior to the Republican caucus meeting over immigration reform, the Dreamers...
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Cross-posted from Latino Decisions by Adrian Pantoja, Ph.D., Senior Analyst, Latino Decisions on 07/11/2013 It is well documented that anti-Latino rhetoric and policies by Republican candidates since the mid-1990s led Latino voters to abandon the GOP in favor of the Democratic Party (Bowler and Segura 2012). For example, research on California shows...
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