The Department of Homeland Security has definitively said that “the suggestion that individuals who have ties to ISIL have been apprehended at the Southwest border is categorically false, and not supported by any credible intelligence or the facts on the ground,” but it’s election season, which means that GOP...
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Around this time three years ago, America’s Voice and a coalition of other pro-immigration reform groups were part of a major push to roll back Alabama’s HB 56 anti-immigrant law, widely considered to be the harshest in the nation. The law, as it was initially implemented, legalized racial profiling, required...
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Real Clear Politics: Hispanic Voters in Colorado: Energized or Apathetic? BuzzFeed: Immigration Activists Call Out Kentucky Dem’s “Morally Reprehensible” Tactics Washington Times: Immigration reform a bipartisan litmus test for Democrats EFE: Immigration: U.S. Democrats could pay dearly for miscalculation Vox: This immigration scandal drove a state official to suicide...
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Latino Decisions and NCLR released a new poll today of Florida Latino voters and their electoral sentiments this year on a host of issues, including immigration reform. Florida Latinos have historically been more conservative, and included large populations of Cuban and Puerto Ricans, for whom the issue of immigration reform tends to...
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In a conversation this week with Des Moines Register editors and reporters, Republican Congressional candidate David Young demonstrated that he at least understands compassionate conservatism, by speaking about how we need immigration reform with a path to citizenship. Young is running for Congress in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional district, one district...
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Wall Street Journal: Obama: Political ‘Suicide’ for GOP to Shun Immigration Overhaul Associated Press: Obama: GOP Immigration Stance Political ‘Suicide’ Los Angeles Times: In Santa Monica, Obama chastises GOP on immigration, targets young voters Politico: President Obama: Republicans will move on immigration Roll Call: Obama: ‘Suicide’ for GOP if...
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Frank Sharry: “The GOP needs to do an autopsy on the post 2012 GOP autopsy. The 2014 Republican message to the fastest growing groups of voters in America: we don’t like your kind and what you want threatens us…”
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As Greg Sargent of the Washington Post notes, recent GOP fear-mongering on immigration issues do not bode well for a party trying to rebrand itself to Latino voters in the lead up to 2016. His piece entitled, “The future of GOP relations with Latinos, in one ad” follows below...
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Republicans have a serious problem when it comes to engaging with voters who aren’t already part of their base — and that’s a truth that extends to Latinos, young voters, and others. Today Fusion published their first-ever Massive Millennial Poll, which surveyed 1200 likely voters ages 18-34, with a number...
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Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters that President Obama delayed executive action on immigration until after the election because he didn’t want the former to be a “casualty” of the latter. “The concern is that, had the president moved forward with his announcement prior to Election Day,...
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