CNN: Democrats block funding for DHS to protect Obama immigration orders By Ted Barrett Fusion: Forget Congress. The real threat to Obama’s immigration program is in a Texas court By Jordan Fabian and Ted Hesson The Hill: Tom Ridge endorses Jeb Bush for president By Peter Sullivan Talking Points...
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Bill Supported by Senator Gardner Included Poison Pill Riders to Gut Key Immigration Programs Today, Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) 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...
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Bill Supported by Senator Paul Included Poison Pill Riders to Gut Key Immigration Programs Today, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) 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...
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WASHINGTON, DC – La mayoría republicana del Senado no reunió los 60 votos requeridos para proceder a considerar el plan presupuestario del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) con enmiendas que revocan las acciones ejecutivas migratorias giradas por el presidente Barack Obama en noviembre pasado y que ya fue aprobado...
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Do They Really Want to Keep Having the Same Fight Every Few Months? Today, Senate Republicans failed to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that would overturn last November’s executive actions, end the DACA program for DREAMers and maximize deportations of undocumented immigrants...
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Earlier this month, House Republicans made funding for the Department of Homeland Security contingent on overturning DACA and DAPA — and now they’re waiting for Senate Republicans to do the same. More than half a million DACA-mented young people in the last two years have flourished as a result...
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Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Arizona will be one of the witnesses testifying at today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the “Adequacy and Enforcement of Our Nation’s Immigration Laws.” Yesterday we wrote about Babeu’s past with the undocumented lover he threatened, his connection to the John Tanton network,...
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CNN: Homeland Security bill faces key vote on Tuesday By Ted Barrett Bloomberg: Iowa Poll: Jeb Bush Has a Big Problem By John McCormick Politico: Barack Obama: DHS impasse could mean ‘end of a paycheck’ for thousands By Seung Min Kim Wall Street Journal: Obama Immigration Budget Underscores Deep...
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When Republicans want to hear “expert” testimony on anti-immigrant views, there is apparently only shop in town: the John Tanton network. Tanton, of course, is the white nationalist who founded or helped found three key anti-immigrant groups, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (or FAIR, a hate group), the Center...
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A continuación una declaración de Frank Sharry, director ejecutivo de America’s Voice, en torno a los intentos republicanos de condicionar el presupuesto del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) a que la Casa Blanca y los demócratas pongan fin a las acciones ejecutivas migratorias que permitirán que millones de inmigrantes...
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