So much for promising to govern. There are roughly 14 days left before the Department of Homeland Security runs out of funding, and Republicans are still avoiding passing clean bill. The GOP House and Senate leadership are currently trying to pass responsibility like a hot potato between them, and the Senate...
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Another day, another GOP-fueled government shutdown on the horizon. And other day of blistering headlines, editorials and opinion pieces eviscerating the Republican “all or nothing” strategy of attaching measures to block the President’s immigration executive action to critical Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds. See below for the latest...
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Bloomberg: Cruz Falls In Line Ahead of Another Shutdown Showdown By Heidi Przybyla Bloomberg: What Ted Cruz Won’t Do to Crush Obama’s Immigration Policy By Dave Weigel The Hill: House conservatives push McConnell to gut filibuster By Cristina Marcos National Journal: House Republicans Call on McConnell to Change Senate...
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Nueva York es el segundo estado que más niños ha recibido después de Texas, con casi 6,000 que viven con sus familiares o guardianes. Muchos huyeron de la violencia del narcotráfico y las pandillas que azotan a sus países de origen.
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New polling from the highly-regarded Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) finds that the American public supports the President’s executive actions on immigration, prefers that Congress focus on passing immigration reform rather than trying to undo the immigration executive actions, and strongly supports a path to legal status and citizenship...
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The Republicans, it seems, are determined to drive their respectability and electability into the ground. Three times last week, they 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 and immigrant parents....
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Fox Latino: White House scrambles to prepare for millions of deportation protection applications Roll Call: Republicans Fear 2010 Redux in Nevada Senate Race By Alexis Levinson National Journal: Amid DHS Fight, 2016 Hopefuls Avoid the Front Lines By Sarah Mimms NBC News: Immigration Protests Return to Hill, Activists Convene...
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Immigrant activists and allies call on Congress to stop the attacks and come up with a real solution for our broken immigration system Today, hundreds of immigrants and their families are holding sit-ins inside dozens of Capitol Hill offices, protesting the fact that Republicans have done nothing on immigration...
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The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing today that included mentions of the very anti-immigrant SAFE Act, the first time the bill has been mentioned since it passed out of committee in 2013. Just in time, seventeen law enforcement leaders from 13 states sent Congress a letter notifying them of their...
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New Offensive Comments At Odds with IL Voters, Sen. Durbin, Ex-DHS Secretaries, and Even Sen. Kirk Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) and fellow Senate Republicans are facing widespread backlash and criticism in conservative, Beltway, and Spanish-language media outlets for their failures to advance legislation to fund the U.S. Department of...
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