As the Associated Press reported yesterday, “President Barack Obama told House Republicans Wednesday that they would benefit politically more than Democrats would from supporting a comprehensive immigration overhaul, lawmakers present said … The assertion prompted some ‘light chuckles’ from certain Republican members, while others reacted more like Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who said,...
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Mar 11, 2013
Por Maribel Hastings, asesora ejecutiva de America’s Voice: WASHINGTON, DC – Mientras el Congreso se apresta a debatir proyectos de reforma migratoria amplia, los personajes de esta discusión son tan diversos como sus intereses. En pasados debates esa diversidad de intereses y de opiniones confabuló con los malos vientos...
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Por Maribel Hastings, asesora ejecutiva de America’s Voice: WASHINGTON, DC – La pasada semana el senador republicano de Arizona, John McCain, enfrentó a la dura derecha en una asamblea pública donde los antiinmigrantes fueron el plato fuerte reclamándole su renovado apoyo a una reforma migratoria amplia y donde uno...
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Further evidence of the nation’s dysfunctional immigration system was on display this week, when ICE–in anticipation of the upcoming sequester–released several hundred immigrants from their detention facilities. It’s unclear where this policy came from, but immigrants–who have been the focus of decades of political battles–are now being used as...
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This afternoon the Washington Post published an article “Immigrants, advocates grow impatient with Obama on pace of changes to laws“, which explores the frustration immigration advocates have for the Administration’s record-breaking deportations. From the article: The anger at President Obama’s deportation polices among some of his otherwise most ardent...
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