Apr 23, 2012
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 from Veronica...
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Um, what? Conservatives given a chance to war against women and immigrants—and deciding not to take it? It was last week that we first heard about a bill in Nebraska that extends prenatal care to undocumented women, thereby setting up a great clash between the issues of immigration and...
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While the Supreme Court is preparing to hear oral arguments on Arizona’s arch-anti-immigrant law SB 1070 next week, Alabama is taking another look at HB 56, the local anti-immigrant law that was inspired by SB 1070. House representatives voted 64-34 yesterday to approve a tweak bill to the original...
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Republicans are looking for a way to shore up their historically low standing with Latino voters. Senator Marco Rubio is reportedly developing a more Republican-friendly version of the DREAM Act in part to do just that. Enter Senator John Cornyn of Texas. In 2010 he called attempts to pass...
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Today, Mitt Romney heads to Arizona for multiple campaign events. Against the backdrop of next week’s U.S. Supreme Court argument in U.S. v Arizona, the Romney campaign yesterday attempted to distance the candidate from his past support of Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law. The stakes are high. ...
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Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v. Arizona, a case focused on the constitutionality of Arizona’s SB 1070 “show me your papers” immigration law. In addition to its implications for the continued spread of costly and Draconian state-based laws, the eventual ruling –...
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of Arizona v. United States. It’s the challenge to Arizona’s harsh “show me your papers” anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, brought by the Obama administration. As Jed Lewison writes today at DailyKos, Mitt Romney is a supporter of SB 1070,...
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As frenzied political junkies begin to chatter about the fight for the Latino vote in November, another fight is coming to Washington much sooner. Next week, the highest court in the land will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB 1070. The Court has the...
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Next week, the Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments on Arizona’s arch-anti-immigrant law, SB 1070—an all-important, game-changing clash between the federal supremacy clause, the need for federal immigration reform, and the belief that states can and should pursue efforts to make undocumented immigrants self-deport. Activists, officials, lawyers, and...
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Are you kidding me? Yesterday we penned a blog post on how the relationship between Kris Kobach and Mitt Romney has taken a complicated turn, on account of how Romney has become the presumptive Republican nominee and now must quest after the all-important Latino vote—a demographic which hates Kobach....
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