Cross-posted from Cincinnati Inquirer: It’s hard to say what’s more disheartening: Sen. Rob Portman’s vote against the toughest immigration bill in Senate history, or his feeble justification for abandoning it. In an op-ed penned on this page last week, Portman, R-Terrace Park, who actually claims to support immigration reform,...
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Daily Beast: Marco Rubio Spurned by Original Tea Party Supporters Over Immigration By Patricia Murphy Wall Street Journal: Focus of Immigration Debate Shifts to House By Sara Murray Roll Call: GOP Immigration Feint in the House? Or Just a Faint of Heart? By David Hawkings Politico: John Boehner: No...
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Jul 8, 2013
El ex presidente estadounidense George W. Bush dijo que al parecer la reforma migratoria tiene posibilidades de que sea aprobada en el Congreso y aseguró que es importante corregir un “sistema que no funciona”.El Senado aprobó una legislación que combina la promesa de que logren la ciudadanía quienes viven...
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Son conservadores de pura cepa, no necesitan el voto hispano y se oponen tajantemente a la naturalización de los inmigrantes sin papeles. De ellos podría depender la aprobación de una reforma a las leyes de inmigración. La batalla en el Senado ganada por los partidarios de una reforma a...
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We’re back from a long weekend, and the fight for immigration reform has pivoted. Following the passage of bipartisan immigration legislation in the Senate by a 68-32 vote, all attention is on the House and Speaker John Boehner. Unfortunately, up first is this Wednesday’s House Republican internal meeting on immigration. The...
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When House Republicans hold their closed-door internal meeting on immigration this Wednesday, members of Congress would be wise to ask Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to recount the cautionary tale of the Republican Party’s demise in his home state of California. In 1994 Governor Pete Wilson (R-CA) pushed through...
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Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID), formerly of the House Group of 8 on immigration, got into a widely-covered spat with conservative columnist David Brooks this weekend, when Brooks called the Congressman out for opposing the Senate immigration bill. Labrador, who this weekend also spent time warning Republicans about the perils of...
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Por Maribel Hastings, asesora ejecutiva de America’s Voice: Al ex presidente George W. Bush se le pueden cuestionar varias decisiones, sobre todo de política exterior, pero no se le puede cuestionar que sí trató de impulsar una reforma migratoria amplia aunque al final su propio Partido Republicano y un...
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New York Times: Shifting Stance to Back Immigration Overhaul, Reid Reaps Benefits By Carl Huse National Journal: Advocates of Senate Bill Turn Their Attention to the House By Rebecca Kaplan Politico: Immigration bill’s starts and stops By Seung Min Kim MSNBC: The right’s desperate search for more white voters...
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