Mar 22, 2013
Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the fifth in a series of weekly press briefings, or “Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Each week, a different and diverse group of speakers will share the latest information on the players, politics, legislation and other developments coming down the pipeline as...
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Picture this, if you can: A roomful of House Republicans have nothing but praise for a fellow Republican who has just come out in favor of immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. As they express support for some version of immigration reform, they are asked if any of...
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Mar 19, 2013
It’s been a whirlwind of a day, following Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)’s hyper-evolution on immigration reform with citizenship and the back-and-forth of what he actually supports. Paul has gone on the record supporting immigration reform with citizenship before, saying that we don’t need to “make it an easy path for citizenship, there...
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Mar 15, 2013
Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the fourth in a series of weekly press briefings, or “Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Each week, a different and diverse group of speakers will share the latest information on the players, politics, legislation and other developments coming down the pipeline...
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As we’ve mentioned many, many times, there’s growing momentum for real immigration reform. Over the past couple days, we’ve added some new allies from the environmental community. Yesterday, writing in the Los Angeles Times, Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org and one of the leading voices in the environmental...
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Yesterday was a busy day in immigration, one in which some Republicans made clear that they still don’t really get it when it comes to immigration reform. CPAC, the conservative political action conference, actually held a panel with pro-immigration reform advocates yesterday morning, including pollster Whit Ayres and executive...
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Editor’s note: Maribel Hasting’s analysis of the key players in the immigration debate was originally published in Spanish at Univision. Below is an excerpt. Washington, DC – As Congress gets ready to debate immigration reform bills, the players that are part of the discussion are as diverse as their...
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Starting TOMORROW and continuing through this week, groups supporting immigration reform–like SEIU–are asking that you exercise your rights for immigration reform. The immigration debate is underway, and it’s crucial that we let Congress know that we support reform, and that immigration reform MUST include a path to citizenship! Please...
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The past seven days have been quite a ride for Jeb Bush. He began the week by recanting his earlier support for immigration reform with a path to citizenship. That’s because Jeb wrote a book last year when it didn’t seem like a path to citizenship would be the...
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Momentum is building each day for immigration reform, with a full-throated legislative debate set to start in the coming weeks. Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the third in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Each week, a different and diverse...
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