As we reported last week, the DREAM Act is getting its first-ever Senate hearing tomorrow, despite having been first introduced in 2001 and being reintroduced multiple times since then.
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Despite Arizona Forest Service officials saying that Senator John McCain didn't know what he was talking about when he said that undocumented immigrants start fires, a few other extreme personalities have decided to ignore that fact and are deciding to drive the right-wing narrative by blaming immigrants for everything.
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Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is promoting his E-Verify program as a "jobs" bill that will ease unemployed Americans' woes. It's telling that the first GOP "jobs plan" introduced this year would send unemployed manufacturing workers in Ohio or Michigan to the fields to pick fruit and vegetables. It's...
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), Immigration Subcommittee Chair Elton Gallegly (R-CA), and Immigration Subcommittee Vice Chair Steve King (R-IA) -- our "three amigos" on immigraton -- keep advancing their wish list of immigration "reforms" that would tighten the screws on immigrants of ALL statuses.
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Almost ten years after the DREAM Act was introduced for the first time in 2001, the bill will now receive its first ever senate hearing next Tuesday -- and we have Senator Durbin to thank for it.
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Senator John McCain was widely mocked this week after baselessly accusing undocumented immigrants of starting wildfires in Arizona. Last night, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart jumped in, bringing in "John McCain," a cranky, geriatric puppet doppelganger out to clarify the Senator's comments.
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Senate Democrats, led by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), today reaffirmed their commitment to a common sense, comprehensive solution to "illegal" immigration by introducing the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2011.
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Outrageous news out of Glenwood Springs, Colorado today: a team of agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly swept through a corner of the Strawberry Days festivities on Saturday, rounding up two or possibly three suspects.
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If there was ever a story to read, this is it. Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize Winning journalist. He's also an undocumented immigrant. I cannot do this story justice, so here's an excerpt from the New York Times -- but read it in full.
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My colleagues just came back from Netroots Nation cheering the inclusion of immigration reform squarely on the progressive agenda. While they were geeking out in Minneapolis, the Southern Baptists were getting busy at their own convention in Phoenix, passing a resolution in support of immigration reform.
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