America’s Voice Reacts to President’s Immigration Speech The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, in response to the President’s speech on immigration. Mr. Sharry was in attendance at the White House for the President’s remarks: President Obama’s speech on immigration today presented a...
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Check it out! Earlier this month, we released district-level polling finding that supermajorities of constituents in the districts of Reps. David Valadao, Devin Nunes, and Jeff Denham (all Republicans from California) support immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. Now, we’ve turned those polls into web ads in the districts...
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Wearing t-shirts that said “DREAM Army,” a group of DREAMers led by the DRM Action Coalition demonstrated in front of the Capitol today in favor of allowing young immigrants to join the armed forces. A press conference followed, during which a collection of Congressmembers from both sides of the...
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Yesterday, both the Wall Street Journal and Greg Sargent at the Washington Post highlighted that House Republicans are working on legalization bills dealing with the undocumented immigrant population in America. The Journal reported that both Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) are working on separate legislation,...
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Produced by NDLON, the ABC Foundation, Interscope Records, Unbound Philanthropies, and La Panda: More about the cast–most of whom have lived or been impacted by the immigrant story: Hareth Andrade Ayala is a immigrants’ rights leader in the state of Virginia. She has spent her teen years traveling across the...
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It’s an little-known issue that is slowly getting a lot of attention in the immigration reform world, making headlines for how nonsensical and inefficient it is—and how many Republican Congressmen are continuing to defend it. It’s the detention bed mandate, which we wrote about last month and which has...
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Arizona Republic: ‘Dreamers’ reach out to D.C. By Daniel González and Dan Nowicki Las Vegas Sun: Immigration supporters target GOP House members seen as amenable to reform By Tovin Lapan Epoch Times: Prospects for Immigration Reform Improving By Mary Silver International Business Times: Immigration Reform 2013: ‘Time For Proponents...
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Oct 22, 2013
This year, 28 House Republicans have come out in favor of immigration reform and a path to citizenship…
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