DREAMers have long been driving forces within the immigrant rights movement, sparking the fires that led to the biggest immigration victories in a generation: DACA in 2012, and DAPA in 2014. Now DREAMers are set to help influence who will become the next President of the United States, too....
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English (en español al final de la página): Bloomberg: Marco Rubio Says He Didn’t Flip-Flop On Immigration But Hillary Clinton Did By Sahil Kapur San Francisco Chronicle: Marco Rubio fundraising at Larry Ellison’s: Will they talk immigration? By Carla Marinucci Des Moines Register (Iowa): Santorum: Jeb Bush agrees with...
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US Customs and Border Protection won’t take any action against agents involved in over 60 “deadly-force” incidents from 2010 to 2012, reports Bob Ortega of the Arizona Republic: The 67 incidents had been identified in 2013 in a scathing report on CBP’s use-of-force practices by the Police Executive Research...
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Santorum y Walker promueven lista de deseos del movimiento antiinmigrante, mientras el resto del ámbito republicano divaga en la reforma migratoria Washington, DC – En el programa “Fox News Sunday”, Rick Santorum rechazó la idea de una vía a la legalización, al responder una pregunta en relación con qué...
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On “Fox News Sunday” yesterday, Rick Santorum responded to a question regarding what to do about 11 million undocumented immigrants living and working in America by rejecting the notion of a path to legalization and saying, “You just use E-Verify. You require E-Verify.” While Santorum was careful not to use...
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In a special Sunday address recognizing the second annual Immigrant Heritage Month, President Obama honored America as “a nation of immigrants” and vowed to continue fighting for immigration action. “I think of growing up in Hawaii, a place enriched by people of different backgrounds – native Hawaiian, Filipino, Japanese,...
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English (en español al final de la página): Bloomberg: Rick Santorum’s Solution for the Undocumented Population: Use E-Verify By Sahil Kapur Washington Post: O’Malley’s efforts on immigration reflect complex political realities By John Wagner and Arelis R. Hernandez Politico: Hillary Clinton to Las Vegas Latino community: You can count...
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Two big victories for immigrant activists on opposite sides of the coast yesterday. Cesar Vargas of DRM Action will become New York’s first undocumented immigrant to practice law, following a decision from an appeals court in his favor. Though he graduated from law school in 2011 and passed the bar exam...
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What’s worse? A politician who ditches an issue (and his mom) after he got blow back, or a politician who hasn’t always been perfect, but keeps moving in the right direction on an issue? In our view, the politician who flips is far worse, showing no character or commitment....
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Democrats represent the mainstream view, GOP contenders mostly pander to the GOP base As a new Pew Research Center poll released yesterday confirmed, support for legal status continues to be the mainstream position in the immigration debate. Julia Preston of the New York Times writes: “In the survey, 72 percent of Americans said...
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