The Republican National Committee took a serious step toward reclaiming its big-tent-party status today, when it announced that it will spend millions this year on minority outreach and endorsed comprehensive immigration reform. It was a move toward reason and rationality, and a tiny hint that Republicans might be willing...
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It’s a shame that Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) showed up to bully the witnesses of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the needs of women and families in immigration reform, because, as our own mothers always used to say, the worst thing you can do...
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You can’t make this stuff up. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has been living in his anti-immigrant bubble for so long, he has no idea how much the world has changed. Further proof was provided today. On the very day that the Republican National Committee tried to distance itself from...
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Just one more thing about the CPAC conference that took place this last weekend: on Saturday, conservative commentator Ann Coulter made an appearance that Politico called “a stand-up comedy routine more than a speech,” in which she attacked Marco Rubio and other Republicans for supporting immigration reform. As Coulter...
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According to a new Republican National Committee (RNC) analysis of the Party’s shortcomings in recent elections, the GOP’s embrace of hardline anti-immigrant policies is at the heart of their problems with Latino voters. And as a new Latino Decisions poll makes clear, if the GOP successfully changes its position...
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1st Poll Release Showed HOW Immigration Impacts Latinos’ Votes; 2nd Shows WHY Latino Voters’ Care so Much About Immigration Reform According to a new Republican National Committee (RNC) analysis of the Party’s shortcomings in recent elections, the GOP’s embrace of hardline anti-immigrant policies is at the heart of their...
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Washington, DC –Un nuevo análisis del Comité Nacional Republicano (RNC) concluyó que su reciente apoyo a políticas migratorias de línea dura ha sido la raíz de sus problemas con los votantes latinos. El análisis señala que “debemos apoyar y defender una reforma migratoria amplia”, y agrega que “si los...
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President Obama nominated Thomas E. Perez, the nation’s top civil rights enforcer, as the new secretary of Labor today, another sign of immigration reform’s current significance on the national stage. Perez is the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and has led the Administration’s efforts against...
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Washington, DC – El diario The New York Times reporta que “el grupo bipartidista de la Cámara Baja que ha estado reuniéndose calladamente por casi cuatro años para discutir una reforma del sistema migratorio del país está cercano a un acuerdo de principios e informará a sus respectivos liderazgos...
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Primero el Senado, con mayoría demócrata, y luego la Cámara de Representantes, controlada por los republicanos, han formado cada una un grupo bipartidista de ocho legisladores para abordar el espinoso asunto. “Mientras el grupo de los ocho en el Senado ha acaparado la atención, el grupo de los ocho...
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