Support for Legal Status, Path to Citizenship and Immigration Reform Remain Strong, Especially When Given Details Five public polls that included questions regarding immigration policy have been released in the past week.  Three were national polls, sponsored by the New York Times/CBS News, Washington Post/ABC News and NBC News/Wall... Continue »
The Senate, via last year’s bipartisan supermajority vote in favor of comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, has already spoken about its policy preferences for immigrants  and DREAMers.  But apparently that’s not enough for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who today is trying to pull a Steve King by... Continue »
More than 200 police jurisdictions nationwide have ended their cooperation with automatic ICE holds, and Long Island is now one of them. Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco this week ended his department’s cooperation with ICE holds, in which immigrants who are detained by police traffic or other minor violations are automatically... Continue »
Tras guardar silencio por la demora en los alivios migratorios, los legisladores demócratas hispanos prevén aprobar este jueves una resolución que exige al presidente Barack Obama tomar una acción “lo más pronto posible” después de los comicios del 4 noviembre. Continue »
Fusion: 5 races where immigration matters VOXXI: Dolores Huerta: Obama was right in delaying action on immigration NBC News: Wilmer Valerrama: Voting Is A Tribute To Your Culture EFE: Wilmer Valderrama Blasts Obama, Democrats For Inaction On Immigration Washington Examiner: Guatemalan violence may spark new wave of illegal immigration... Continue »
You might remember Pedro. He has four children and his wife is a US citizen. Last year thousands of people like you took action to keep Pedro with his family — but now ICE is trying again to deport him, even though Pedro is a law-abiding family man and the... Continue »
YubaNet (California – Opinion): Op-Ed: Lynn Tramonte: California’s Prop 187 Relegated to History Books: Will Obama and Democrats Read the Whole Chapter? Wall Street Journal: Hispanic Caucus Backs Off Thanksgiving Deadline on Immigration BuzzFeed: Unpersuaded By White House, Hispanic Caucus Set To Demand Obama Act On Immigration After Election... Continue »
The following is a press release from Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer‘s office: Over a year after the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill with a strong bipartisan vote of 68-32, House Republicans have yet to take action to fix our nation’s broken immigration system. Despite their empty rhetoric about immigration... Continue »