After news broke last week that the Obama Administration was planning a new round of immigration raids targeting young mothers and unaccompanied children from Central America, leading Democratic voices and policy experts and advocates condemned the planned enforcement actions as morally wrong and misguided on policy. Additionally, as leading observers...
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Here’s the transcript of the immigration questions from the Democratic candidates debate on October 13, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are several areas that will require clarification from the candidates – and we’ll have more on that later. And, there was no discussion about mass deportation or ending birthright...
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Democrats Leaning Forward With Pro-Immigrant Positions; Republicans Are Lurching Right and Pandering to a Shrinking Base Washington, DC – At tonight’s Democratic presidential debate CNN will undoubtedly try to draw out differences between the candidates. With respect to immigration, however, the differences will be slight. All the major candidates support...
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Tonight is the first Democratic debate. It’s taking place in Las Vegas. Today, The Guardian underscored the importance of Latino voters and the immigration issue in Nevada: More than 7% of Nevada’s 2.8 million residents are undocumented immigrants. That is the largest percentage in the country, and it’s also...
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WHERE TO WATCH THE CNN DEBATE The first Democratic Debate will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The debate will be broadcasted by CNN and moderated by Anderson Cooper. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE DEBATE HASHTAGS #DEMdebate QUICK LINKS Follow Tweets from America’s Voice: http://bit.ly/1JbHlUL Meet the 2016 Democratic...
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Here’s an updated primer on where each of the 2016 Democratic candidates stand on immigrants and immigration reform. For more 2016 election coverage from America’s Voice, visitAmericasVoice.org/2016. Candidates Covered in this Research Official Candidates Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) 2016 Dropouts Governor Lincoln Chafee (D-RI) Governor Martin...
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Did you miss the Republican drama on the Senate floor yesterday? No worries — we have you covered. Yesterday, the Senate voted to reject the DHS funding bill that passed the Republican-controlled House. But the vote wasn’t just about funding DHS. The focus of the bill was on a measure to...
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In a strong show of unity, Senate Democrats joined together and sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) today calling on him to pass a long-term Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill without ideologically-driven riders. Nevertheless, Senator McConnell announced that the Senate will move to the...
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Earlier, we wrote about how Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) slammed Republicans for their all-out assault on DACA as well as executive action. Today, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) along with more than a hundred other House Democrats, sent the below letter to Speaker Boehner asking him to stop playing politics with immigrants’...
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Today, Americans United for Change announced a new TV ad called ‘Leadership’ in support of President Obama’s executive action. The ad features former President Ronald Reagan who in 1986 exercised executive action to defer deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers. As House Republicans have refused to take any action on immigration reform...
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