As news swirls today about President Obama’s impending executive action — scheduled to be announced tomorrow — Rep. Luis Gutierrez joined immigrant farm, food, and commercial workers from across the country to remind Americans of the people behind our Thanksgiving meals and to call on Obama to deliver the most...
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Over the past 60 years, every President has taken immigration-related executive actions – a total of 39 different occasions. Both Ronald Reagan and President George H. W. Bush took executive action on immigration, with the Bush Administration issuing a Family Fairness policy that allowed 1.5 million spouses and children...
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Today, Senators Richard Blumnethal (D-CT) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent their own letter to Obama asking the president to use his executive authority on immigration, thereby bolstering law enforcement and enhancing public safety. The letter comes a day after a similar effort from different Democratic Senators, and a week...
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The kind of executive action on immigration that President Obama is about to take is not new — every single president since at least Eisenhower has unilaterally used his powers in some way to help immigrants. But in a recent floor speech, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) actually went back further —...
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I froze as I watched a clip of “Orange Is The New Black” actress Diane Guerrero recalling coming home after school at 14-years-old, only to discover that both her parents had been deported: “I would always have this feeling…I was always scared that my parents were going to be...
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With the debate over immigration executive action in full swing, here are three key points regarding public opinion and the polling instruments used to measure it: 1) If you ask a misleading question, you’ll get an inaccurate response. Polling from USA Today released this week asks, “Should President Obama...
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En Washington, Maribel Hastings, asesora ejecutiva de America’s Voice, explicó que “mientras esperamos que el presidente anuncie la acción ejecutiva, seguimos presionando para garantizar que lo haga y utilice su discreción para beneficiar a la mayor cantidad posible de inmigrantes”.
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En 1986, Reagan dio “amnistía” a tres millones de indocumentados y, al año siguiente, firmó una orden que protegió de la deportación a los hijos menores de los amnistiados. En 1990, Bush padre frenó por decreto la deportación de hasta 1,5 millones de indocumentados con familiares legales en EEUU,...
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As we’ve been saying for quite some time, President Obama has promised that he will act on immigration before the end of the year, but many — including Sen. Harry Reid — are are saying that it could happen sooner rather than later. But in all of the news coverage...
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As we wait for President Obama to announce his plans for executive action, the anti-immigrant rhetoric has been ratcheting up. Of particular note is the ugly tone adopted by Speaker John Boehner: The first, favored by the GOP leadership, would have Republicans denounce what House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio)...
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