So this is interesting. A piece yesterday at Salon discusses a trick that the National Republican Congressional Committee is trying to pull in Colorado, where it is attacking former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff (D) from the left on immigration. A website set up by the NRCC slams Romanoff for “lik to waste...
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SENATE JUDICIARY HEARING COVERAGE AND MORE BOSTON REACT Associated Press: Janet Napolitano Talking Immigration Before Senate Judiciary Committee By Erica Werner New York Times: Immigration Bill Would Aid Security, Napolitano Says By Ashley Parker Reuters: Immigration bill could fix some Boston security issues: official By Richard Cowan Politico: Janet...
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Inmigrantes con discapacidad mental que fueron detenidos deberán tener una representación legal cuando enfrenten juicios por deportación, resolvió hoy un juez federal. El Tribunal para el Distrito Central de California emitió una orden a favor de demandantes representados por la Unión Estadunidense de Derechos Civiles (ACLU por sus siglas...
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Bajo la sombra de un árbol en la esquina de Wilshire y Union de Los Ángeles, cuatro jornaleros esperan el milagro de cada día: encontrar trabajo. Marco Mejía, Wálter Castillo, Paulino Ramos y Mario Alonso saben que sin una reforma migratoria prevalecerá esa angustia que experimentan a diario por...
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La secretaria de Seguridad Nacional Janet Napolitano dijo el martes que de aprobarse el proyecto de ley de reforma migratoria su despacho está en condiciones de cumplir durante el próximo año con las tres condiciones para que los inmigrantes sin papeles puedan optar por un estatus legal provisional. “Esos...
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Pinging around the blogosphere today has been a Politico article claiming that immigration reform could be a “bonanza” for Democrats, considering that reform could eventually lead to more Hispanic voters, who voted Democratic by a 3-1 margin in the last election. As the article breathlessly wrote about current undocumented...
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In the Senate Judiciary hearings on Friday, yesterday, and today, Gang of Hate members like Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) repeatedly spent time fearmongering and pushing his colleagues to delay immigration reform on account of the Boston bombings. That’s his latest tactic for trying to kill the Senate legislation, as...
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During a Senate Judiciary committee hearing on immigration, Kris Kobach made it clear that he still supports self-deportation…
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The Republican Party has embarked on a major overhaul of its recent anti-immigrant stance, spurred in large part by historically low levels of support from Latino voters in the 2012 elections. Yet judging from the witnesses that Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) called at yesterday’s immigration...
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