When more than 100 women were arrested in an act of civil disobedience on Capitol Hill last fall, they powerfully demonstrated that immigration reform is a women’s issue, one that deeply affects mothers, fathers, families, and children. That’s why the Alliance for Citizenship, with the Center for Community Change...
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Debt Ceiling Vote Shows the Way to Pass Immigration Reform – Or Else Washington, DC – The House of Representatives yesterday passed a clean debt-ceiling bill, with Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) assembling a coalition of 28 Republicans and 193 Democrats to get a clean extension passed. ...
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While Spanish-language media is furious at the House GOP’s latest excuse for not passing immigration reform, liberal commentators are ridiculing Speaker Boehner and his timidity in the face of the House Tea Party/conservative/Steve King wing. Yesterday, both Jon Stewart of the Daily Show and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC skewered House...
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Arizona Republic: Immigration activists threaten GOP political payback By Dan Nowicki VOXXI: Immigration reform advocates to House GOP: ‘We will be in your face’ By Griselda Nevarez MSNBC: Immigration groups ready ‘punishment’ for GOP By Benjy Sarlin Houston Chronicle: Immigration groups vow to get more aggressive with Texas Republicans...
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The following is a press release from the Fair Immigration Reform Movement: The nation’s largest immigration coalition—the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM)—announced today it will step up its efforts to achieve comprehensive immigration reform by moving into a phase of electoral punishment for GOP inaction. “Our actions last year...
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Top Spanish language media voices are condemning House Republicans for their latest excuses and inaction on immigration reform and are warning the GOP about the profound political consequences that the Republican Party will face in future elections should they continue to block reform. In addition, the leading congressional advocate...
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WASHINGTON, DC—Republicans are running out of items on their list of excuses for inaction on immigration reform. The most recent, used in reference to Obamacare, is that President Barack Obama is not to be trusted because he is “unable” to apply the laws as they are written, and, therefore,...
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Yesterday, we wrote about Spanish-language media and the anger they are showing toward House Republicans for not taking action on immigration reform. Today, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), a champion of reform, took to the House floor to deliver a blistering speech excoriating Speaker Boehner and his caucus for their timidity...
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New Hampshire GOP Senator Kelly Ayotte is still trying to punish little DREAMers — following the path of Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. Last month, Ayotte tried to attach an amendment to an extension of unemployment benefits, proposing to offset the unemployment insurance extension by eliminating the child tax credit for certain...
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