Radio Bilingue: Deportations and Electoral Politics. Also, Rubén Gallego. NBC News: White House Explains Shelving Immigration Until After Elections (VIDEO) The Hill: White House doubts shutdown fight over immigration reform Roll Call: Earnest Doubts Immigration Shutdown Showdown Washington Times: White House: Obama doesn’t want immigration reform to be ‘casualty’...
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Bloomberg Politics has a great cover story today on the Senate race in Colorado between Sen. Mark Udall (D) and his challenger Rep. Cory Gardner (R). It’s one of the most competitive races this fall, and is made even more important by the fact that Colorado is a significant bellwether for the rest of...
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President Obama has delayed taking executive action on immigration and deportations, and in his absence, ICE seems to be attempting to deport as many people as it can, charges a new report from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. “It’s like someone eating all the ice cream in the...
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La fecha límite para nuevos votantes o para cambio de registro en Nueva York es el 10 de octubre, mientras que en California hay tiempo hasta el 20 de octubre. Las elecciones “mid term” son el próximo 4 de noviembre y en ellas se elige a la Cámara de...
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One of the hottest Congressional races this year is in Colorado’s 6th district, Rep. Mike Coffman (R) versus challenger Andrew Romanoff (D). The district’s main newspaper has just endorsed Romanoff, in part over Coffman’s out of touch stance on immigration: When Coffman first went to Congress to represent a...
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Opponents of immigration reform were quick to pounce on recent statistics that 70% of adults with children who made it to the border and were then released pending a court date, failed to report to immigration offices. But that doesn’t mean they’re missing their court dates, as the Wall Street Journal...
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Yesterday, Daniel Strauss at Talking Points Memo exposed a new ad from Karl Rove’s American Crossroads PAC attacking Iowa’s Bruce Braley for supporting immigration reform. The problem? Karl Rove himself is a noted supporter of reform — he wrote this Wall Street Journal piece defending the Senate immigration bill last year. Yet he’s targeting...
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Moyers & Company: Morning Reads Real Clear Politics: Demographics, Hispanic Voters and the Midterms The Hill: Dem pollster predicts Hispanic voters to stay home Wall Street Journal: As Midterm Elections Loom, U.S. Voters Are Excited About…Nobody Fox News Latino: In Colorado Senate debate, rivals accuse each other of flip-flopping...
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In Colorado, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) has been making some pretty silly claims about supporting immigration reform, despite what the record shows, and his Democratic challenger is determined to expose the truth — in Spanish. Democrat Andrew Romanoff this week launched two ads (one for TV and one for radio)...
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Today, the anti-immigrant group Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) is making headlines with its new TV ads, which are airing on national cable TV networks and running for several weeks. CAPS’ premise is that immigration reform is bad for the US economy and American workers — contrary to all known fact...
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