Rick Perry said that people who can't support the DREAM Act "don't have a heart." Mandatory E-Verify, which this week passed out of the House Judiciary Committee, was mentioned for the first time. Ron Paul called the bill a "national ID card."
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Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee passed Rep. Lamar Smith's mandatory E-Verify bill on a party-line vote, and you can bet that the GOP leadership is sweating about this. If Smith's E-Verify plan is successful, it would devastate the agriculture industry, where undocumented immigrants make up 75% of the...
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Yesterday, The House Judiciary Committee approved Rep. Lamar Smith's E-Verify bill on a party-line vote after considering a series of amendments. Rep. Lamar Smith has consistently maintained that his E-Verify bill is about protecting American workers, even though it's clearly not.
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The House Judiciary Committee just voted, 22 - 13, to pass Rep. Lamar Smith's E-Verify bill, H.R. 2885. It was a party line vote. All the Democrats voted no while the GOP members voted with Smith. The next step in the House is up to Republican leadership. And, Smith's...
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Despite increasing opposition from within his own party, as well as concerns from labor unions, agriculture, and Latino groups, Lamar Smith is pushing onward with his destructive, anti-immigrant "jobs agenda."
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The Center for American Progress released a new report today entitled "All Immigration is Local: Receiving Communities and Their Role in Successful Immigrant Integration," which discusses what happens when a community reacts negatively to an influx of new immigrants.
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Joe Arpaio, the notoriously anti-immigration Sheriff from Maricopa County has established himself as a birther. He's assigned his "Cold Case Posse" to investigate President Obama's birth certificate.
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Despite publicly expressing confidence over the legislation's prospects, leading anti-immigrant lawmaker Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) had a difficult week promoting his mandatory E-Verify bill.
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In "honor" of this nonsense, and in honor of it being Friday, we at America's Voice have pulled together a few fun clips that remind us of the echo chamber around these GOP legislators. We all know the economy is a problem, but these representatives would rather cast...
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These days Maricopa County's Sheriff Joe Arpaio is like the hottest girl at prom: everyone wants a piece of him, and suitors have come a-wooing. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) swung by Arizona yesterday, hoping to get Arpaio's endorsement for her presidential bid.
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