Jul 15, 2013
Washington Post (Blog): How Janet Napolitano’s resignation could help immigration reform By Greg Sargent Washington Post: How much will Napolitano’s departure affect immigration reform’s prospects? Not much. By Juliet Eilperin Slate: Republicans Just Love to Hate Janet Napolitano By David Weigel Mother Jones: Sen. Schumer’s Bright Idea: Ray Kelly...
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Today, immigration reform opponents are gathering in DC for the so-called “March for Jobs,” an event hosted the Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA). Featuring the likes of Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions, Steve King, Mo Brooks, and Allen West–and promoted by NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies–the event promises to...
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El presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, se reunió hoy con los líderes del “Grupo de los Ocho” del Senado, el republicano John McCain y el demócrata Chuck Schumer, para tratar sobre la negociación de la reforma migratoria, un encuentro tras el que los legisladores pidieron “un rol activo” del...
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El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes John Boehner (R-OH) aclaró este jueves, que el Congreso debatirá una reforma migratoria a través de proyectos de ley pequeños, en lugar de una propuesta integral. Además insistió en que no existe un plazo definido para llegar a los votos finales. Boehner...
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Un grupo de jóvenes indocumentados que ha crecido y estudiado en Estados Unidos escenificaron hoy frente al Capitolio una ceremonia de aceptación de ciudadanía para pedir a los congresistas republicanos que permitan un acuerdo sobre la reforma migratoria. Más de un centenar de jóvenes indocumentados, conocidos como “Dreamers”, recitaron...
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Jul 12, 2013
GOP Conference Meeting, Sec. Janet Napolitano’s Resignation, Latino Influence on 2014 Congressional Races, Future Latino Voters are Up for Grabs Today, America’s Voice Education Fund alongside other immigration advocates and policy experts held the eighteenth in a series of weekly “Office Hours” press briefings. Moderated by Frank Sharry, Executive Director at America’s Voice Education Fund,...
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Earlier this week, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal came out against the Senate immigration bill in a National Review column that Dave Weigel slammed as “incoherent until you realize he wants to win the Iowa caucuses.” Jindal wrote a lot about how there was pork in the Senate bill, and then said...
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On immigration, there are three types of Republicans in the House: Steve King’s “Hell No” Caucus, a group likely to “vote no, but pray yes,” and an unknown number of reformers…
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In the fight for immigration reform, two of the political incentives for House Republicans to vote for a bill involve constituent breakdown: how “purple” their district is politically, and how Latino it is demographically. That’s what the scatterplot below shows, for many (not all) of the House Republicans who...
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