Mar 10, 2014
Roll Call: Gutierrez Defends Calling Obama ‘Deporter in Chief’ By Emma Dumain Associated Press: Can GOP neutralize immigration as election issue? By Nicholas Riccardi Huffington Post: Immigration Advocates Juggle Fights Against Obama And GOP By Elise Foley UPI: Immigration advocates call on Obama to cut back deportations Gannett: Immigration...
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Mar 7, 2014
The Border Patrol and its policies allowing for the excessive use of force came under renewed scrutiny last week, with the release of a DHS inspector general report investigating 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths. The report found, among other things, evidence of Border Patrol agents deliberately stepping...
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It has not been a good week for President Obama. (See the headlines here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, just for starters.) Members of Congress have joined immigration advocates in pressuring Obama to stop deporting people who qualify for immigration reform. Here’s what’s happened in the last...
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Yesterday, in response to fierce and growing criticism about the Obama Administration’s record-breaking deportations, the President declared he was the “Champion-in-Chief” for immigration. Apparently, his political appointees haven’t gotten the message. We’ve known for years that the Department of Homeland Security, particularly ICE and Border Patrol, are out of...
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Rep. Gutiérrez and Janet Murguía Discuss Multi-Pronged Approach to Pressuring Republicans and President Obama to Deliver Reform An array of calls from both the pro-reform movement and congressional Leaders, calling on the White House to rollback deportations, drew attention far and wide this week. And while this may mean...
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Hat tip to Brookings fellow John Hudak for snapping the photo and telling this story: Thursday afternoon, CPAC hosted a panel on GOP outreach into minority communities. The panel included Virginia Senate candidate Ed Gillespie and a panel of Republican political strategists: Jason Roe, Elroy Sailor, and Robert Woodson. The...
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Bloomberg View: Immigration Backers Corner ‘Deporter in Chief’ Obama By Francis Wilkinson Los Angeles Times: Immigration advocates step up pressure on Obama to ease deportations By Kathleen Hennessey and Brian Bennett Fox News Latino: Deporter-In-Chief? President Obama’s Base Turning Against Him Over Inaction On Immigration By Elizabeth Llorente BuzzFeed:...
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Mar 6, 2014
CPAC starts today, but unfortunately most of our favorite anti-immigrant commentators won’t be there. Since the 2012 election, in which Mitt Romney was walloped because he supported self-deportation and lost the Latino vote, extremists have been a bit less welcome. Which is why Breitbart, for the second year in a row,...
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