As we await a decision from Federal Judge Andrew Hanenon the Republican state legal challenge to President’s Obama’s immigration actions, more and more sensible voices continue to weigh in with their analysis of the law and policy. Yesterday David Leopold, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), took to the pages of...
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For Third Time This Week, Senate Tries and Fails on DHS Bill Loaded Up With Anti-Immigrant Poison Pills Only Path Forward is a Clean Funding Bill – ASAP Today, for the third time this week, Senate Republicans failed to advance a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that...
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Following last month’s Iowa Freedom Summit, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) is ascendant in his party and appears to be a (very) early favorite to win the Iowa caucuses. To his credit, Walker seems at least cognizant of his need to win Latino voters should be become a mainstream candidate, so far avoiding...
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Politifact: Did Scott Walker flip-flop on a immigration and a pathway to citizenship? By Dave Umhoefer AP: Bush Calls for Expansion of Immigration of Skilled Workers Wall Street Journal: Jeb Bush on Shrinking Middle Class and Immigration (VIDEO) National Journal: The States That Will Pick the President: The Sunbelt...
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Today, Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) sided with anti-immigration restrictionists in his Party by voting to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that includes unnecessary, anti-immigrant riders and plays politics with the operations of this critical department. Instead of calling on his colleagues to responsibly commit the necessary homeland security...
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Republicans Can’t Get Over Obsession with Deporting DREAMers and their Families Today, for the second time in two days, Senate Republicans failed to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that also guts President Obama’s executive actions, ends the DACA program for DREAMers, and maximizes...
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The Republicans, it seems, are determined to drive their respectability and electability into the ground. Twice now this week, they have pushed for votes on the DHS funding bill passed by the House, which unfortunately contains riders that would end DACA and DAPA — maximizing the deportations of DREAMers...
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Did you miss the Republican drama on the Senate floor yesterday? No worries — we have you covered. Yesterday, the Senate voted to reject the DHS funding bill that passed the Republican-controlled House. But the vote wasn’t just about funding DHS. The focus of the bill was on a measure to...
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What IS it with conservatives, immigrants, and disease? Republicans have previously fearmongered about and/or blamed immigrants for ebola, swine flu, and enterovirus — despite zero evidence for any of the above. Just today, Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage claimed that undocumented immigrants bring hepatitis and HIV to the United States. And then there’s...
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Supposedly, insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” but Senate Republicans are poised to pursue just that after yesterday’s failed vote seeking to kill DACA/DAPA. Today, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to move to reconsider yesterday’s vote — and tomorrow, there...
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