Sep 23, 2011
During last night’s Republican presidential debate, Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) came under fire from other candidates about his support for in-state tuition for undocumented young people in Texas, and perhaps because of this many commentators continue to characterize Perry as a moderate on the issue. He’s not.
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During last night's Republican presidential debate, Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) came under fire from other candidates about his support for in-state tuition for undocumented young people in Texas, and perhaps because of this many commentators continue to characterize Perry as a moderate on the issue.
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Outside a Catholic Church in July, Border Patrol agents handcuffed a Latino man for what witnesses say was no reason at all. His only crime, according to on-lookers, was looking Latino. Later, it was found that the man arrested was residing in the US legally, and he was released....
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Rep. Lamar Smith maintains that his E-Verify bill is about protecting American workers. He has the audacity to call it a “jobs bill,” even though it’s not. That was exposed Wednesday when Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee offered a number of pro-worker amendments. All were defeated due to...
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During last night's Republican presidential debate, Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) came under fire from other candidates about his support for in-state tuition for undocumented young people in Texas, and perhaps because of this many commentators continue to characterize Perry is a moderate on the issue.
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Rick Perry said that people who can't support the DREAM Act "don't have a heart." Mandatory E-Verify, which this week passed out of the House Judiciary Committee, was mentioned for the first time. Ron Paul called the bill a "national ID card."
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry was booed by the audience after he discussed his rationale for giving in-state tuition to the children of undocumented immigrants in his state, an Achilles' heel for the border-state governor when it comes to hard-line conservatives.
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Governor Perry, I'm going to ask you a question, so you don't need to respond to him, because you're going to get a full minute to answer your question, which is on directly this point. You're the candidate whose name, by a wide margin, came up most often in...
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On Wednesday, September 21, the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to send Rep. Lamar Smith's (R-TX) Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885) to the House Floor. Now the rest of the House of Representatives will get a chance to debate this monstrosity.
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The House Judiciary Committee this week passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would require private businesses to use a federal program that checks the immigration status of all job applicants. The bill, the most sweeping piece of immigration legislation moving through Congress, will have a hard time getting through the...
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