Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s meeting with a DAPA-eligible family on Monday marks the first Presidential election where all candidates from one party have met with immigrant families to hear their personal stories one-on-one. In November, former Gov. Martin O’Malley kicked off the “DAPA Dinners” campaign by breaking...
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English (en español al final de la página): Washington Post: Ted Cruz’s claim that he has ‘never supported legalization’ of undocumented immigrants By Michelle Ye Hee Lee Politico: Who’s right: Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio? By Seung Min Kim Huffington Post: Ted Cruz May Be Right In His Fight...
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Common Sense Emerges, For Now; Pro-Immigration Movement Stronger Than Ever The following is a statement from Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director of America’s Voice. Republicans in Congress started the immigration fight early in 2015. When they tried to shut down the Department of Homeland Security over President Obama’s immigration executive actions, they...
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Frank Sharry: “A party that needs to expand its appeal in a country undergoing a huge demographic transition has lurched to the right in a way that is likely to make it unelectable in the 2016 presidential race.” Political observers have been busy this week assessing the immigration back-and-forth...
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Ted Cruz has been in a bitter back-and-forth with Marco Rubio over the issue of immigration for months, most recently onstage at Tuesday’s Republican debate. But in an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, Cruz faced one foe he just wasn’t ready for: himself. From HuffPo: Fox News’ Bret Baier...
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As Republicans have traded in self-deportation for mass-deportation, a must-read piece from the Washington Post’s Editorial Board looks at the mainstreaming of extremism within the GOP since the entrance of Donald Trump to the 2016 Presidential race. The Washington Post editorial, entitled, “For Republicans, bigotry is the new normal,”...
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English (en español al final de la página): Dallas Morning News: Ted Cruz, under fire from Rubio on immigration, toughens stance: No legal status for 11 million here illegally By Todd Gillman Newsmax: Fox’s Baier Challenges Cruz on Amnesty Support By Greg Richter New York Times: Fact-Checking Ted Cruz...
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Meet Leah Sanles Wilson, a 10 year old from Miami, Florida who is proving to be one of the country’s youngest and most relentless immigration advocates. Despite having been born in the United States, Leah is not stranger to the struggles that undocumented immigrants endure on daily basis. Leah...
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Frank Sharry: “Let us hope the nation ultimately rejects the radicalism of the right in favor of the humanity of our ideals” The stark contrast between the two parties on immigration was on full display this week. Yesterday, speaking at a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives, President Barack...
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Last night’s Republican Presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada became a race over who can go furthest to the extreme right, with leading candidates uniting as both anti-immigrant and anti-refugee. In a round-up below, journalists, immigration advocates, and others react to the radical agendas proposed by Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz,...
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