At the Center for American Progress this afternoon, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) discussed what he believes immigration reform should look like and called it the “civil rights issue of our time.” After host Neera Tanden, the President of the Center for American Progress, called Latino voters “THE story of...
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Great news out of Long Island today, where activists are celebrating a civil rights victory for immigrants. From a Make the Road New York press release: This morning, Long Island’s Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed an Executive Order that requires all County agencies to provide translation and interpretation,...
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Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice Education Fund, had the following reaction to President Obama’s immigration comments, made during the President’s first post-election press conference today: “President Obama made it clear that comprehensive immigration reform is a top priority for early 2013. As he predicted before the election,...
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Cross-posted at Latino Decisions, Latino Vote Matters, and Daily Kos: Gary Segura recently provided a discussion of how exit polls often misrepresent Latino voters (Badly!), pointing out that exit polls often rely on small samples of Latino likely voters, rarely utilize fully bilingual interviews, and utilize samples that are not...
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In his first press conference post-election, President Obama took a question about immigration and said that a bill would likely be introduced in Congress soon after his inauguration. Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice Education Fund, had the following reaction to President Obama’s immigration comments: President Obama made it...
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Momentum keeps building on behalf of immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: From the President to conservative leaders to the American people themselves, the stampede towards broad immigration reform that will put 11 million new Americans...
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Momentum keeps building on behalf of immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, “From the President to conservative leaders to the American people themselves, the stampede towards broad immigration reform that will put 11 million new Americans...
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