The pro-immigration reform movement has long been familiar with the Tanton network, a body of anti-immigrant organizations (some considered to be hate groups) all founded by a single man—John Tanton. Tanton was associated with white supremacists and eugenicists, corresponding with Ku Klux Klan lawyers and writing screeds like about how a...
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At Talking Points Memo is a list of reasons why immigration reform will pass this year, including the fact that anti-immigrant opponents are more marginalized now than ever. Gang of 8 members John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Jeff Flake met with Congressional Republicans last week to promote the Senate...
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Mar 3, 2013
Newsmax conducted a poll showing that two out of three Republicans support immigration reform. During the waiting period illegal immigrants would be granted legal status and a green card in return for paying back taxes and fines, learning English and remaining free of a criminal record, according to a survey...
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Mar 1, 2013
Roll Call: House Immigration Negotiators Mull Citizenship Compromise By David Harrison Voxxi: Pathway to citizenship: Republicans face ‘balancing act’ By Raisa Camargo Roll Call: House GOP Seeks Immigration Solution By Daniel Newhauser and David M. Drucker ABC/Univision: How the GOP Could Break an Unwritten Rule and Pass Immigration Reform...
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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 second in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Each week, a different and...
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Advocates Give Analysis and Updates During the Second in a Series of Weekly Briefings on Immigration Debate in Congress 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...
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