You might remember E-Verify. It’s House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith’s pet project to singlehandedly boost the American economy by expanding regulation and costing hundreds of thousands of legal American workers their jobs. The bill stalled after it passed the House Judiciary Committee last fall, and it’s no more politically...
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Under fire for Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law and reeling after the recent loss of support from Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Kraft Foods, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) announced today that they would begin focusing their efforts solely on economic issues, rather than social and cultural issues. The news...
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Last week, Mitt Romney pretty much cleared the field for the GOP nomination. As we reported yesterday, over the weekend — the first weekend after becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Romney finally acknowledged the fact that he has a “Latino problem” — because of his harsh anti-immigrant posturing in...
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Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to consider a range of factors in determining whether an individual should be deported or not. Here’s how the Immigration Policy Center described the memo after...
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In a series of interviews with Spanish language media this past weekend, President Obama promised to make immigration reform a year one priority of a potential second term. He also lamented Republican obstructionism on the issue. In an interview with Univision, Obama said: I can promise that I will...
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Over the weekend, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney finally acknowledged the fact that he has a “Latino problem” due to his anti-immigrant posturing in the Republican primary. While Romney didn’t intend to say so publicly, his remarks at a closed door fundraiser in Florida were caught on microphone. ...
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We’ve been publishing a series of posts from the DREAMers of the Campaign for an American DREAM. Last month, they set off from San Francisco to begin a 3,000-mile, 8-month+ walk to Washington, DC to call attention to the DREAM Act and the need for immigration reform. Today’s post is...
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On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law. Since then, there’s been a massive backlash against that harsh anti-immigrant legislation. Almost two years to the day Brewer signed the law, the constitutionality of SB 1070 will be argued before the United States Supreme Court....
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News about Andrew Thomas, the Maricopa County attorney disbarred this week for being Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s corrupt partner in crime is really getting pickup. We’ve written about the disbarring, but not the reason for the disbar. Talking Points Memo sums up the story of Thomas and Arpaio, the nightmare-team...
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It was last year that we first told you about Pedro Gutierrez, a DREAMer from Arizona who aspires to become a Marine, who came to the US when he was 7. His grandmother, his only caretaker, died when he was still a child, leaving him an orphan. But Pedro...
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