VOXXI: Families impacted by deportations push for immigration reform By Griselda Nevarez Right Side News: Immigration Reform News and Impact on US Homeland Security February 5, 2014 Associated Press: House conservatives rule out immigration this year By Donna Cassata Wall Street Journal: House GOP Cools to Immigration Overhaul By...
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is urging his Party to delay action on immigration reform until at least 2015. According to Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director of America’s Voice: Coming from California, you’d think Rep. Kevin McCarthy would get the politics...
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At today’s Congressional briefing on American families in deportation, one of the speakers was Seleste Wisniewski, a mother of four whose husband Pedro was almost deported last year. Pedro and Seleste’s oldest son, 24-year-old Juan, has severe cerebral palsy and is completely reliant upon others to take care of his most...
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At today’s Congressional briefing on American families in deportation, one of the speakers was Maria Perez, a mother of two whose husband Brigido was deported last year. You can watch Maria tell her heartbreaking story below, or read a version of it here. As Maria said today about her...
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Congressional Women’s Working Group on Immigration Reform and America’s Voice Education Fund Highlight the Painful Realities of our Broken Immigration System Neither Seleste Wisniewski nor Maria Perez ever thought she’d have to choose between her country and her husband. But last year, these two women were forced to face...
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Just over five years into his presidency, President Obama is nearing his 2 millionth deportation, and a legacy where he will have deported more immigrants — mothers, fathers, siblings, and neighbors — than any other president in history. On Wednesday, February 5th at 10 AM ET, the Congressional Women’s...
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Two conservative Washington Post writers make compelling cases for why their fellow Republicans should pass immigration reform: Former George W. Bush administration speechwriter Michael Gerson writes a Washington Post column titled, “A Rendezvous with Irrelevance,” that hammers home the demographic and political realities facing the Republican Party that compel...
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The House GOP’s principles on immigration reform are out, but apparently they’re still trying to decide whether to tackle immigration reform this year — or save it for 2015 or 2017. Greg Sargent and Matt Lewis have already published pieces on why Republicans should just pass reform this year, if they’re...
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Front page at the Washington Post today is a David Nakamura story about immigration reform, a call for the end of deportations, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s “Not 1 More” campaign. View the full story here. It’s up to Congress — and House Republicans — to pass...
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