In Donald Trump, the Republican Party seems on track to nominate a candidate running the most explicitly nativist and anti-immigrant campaign in recent American history. Simultaneously, Republican primary exit polling in state after state is demonstrating that, despite the front-runner’s obsession with this issue, among the electorate it ranks last in a list...
Continue
»
High-schooler Kimberly should be sitting in a classroom like any other young person her age, but instead she’s sitting in a federal immigration detention center assembling packets of clothes for incoming detainees for one dollar a day. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the latest major news organization to cover the...
Continue
»
Caminar por el lado malo ha sido siempre el destino de la historia. Y se repite como una letanía interminable: como si el pensar, y sobre todo pensar en lo que pide la parte buena de la condición humana fuese algo en lo que se debe estar en contra,...
Continue
»
English (en español al final de la página): AP: Exit poll: GOP unhappy, Dems OK with Sanders, Clinton By Chad Day and Emily Swanson Washington Post: Super Tuesday II: Clinton sweeps Florida, Ohio and North Carolina; Rubio quits after Trump wins Florida By David Fahrenthold and Rosalind S. Helderman...
Continue
»
Marco Rubio, el joven senador floridano y estrella ascendente del Partido Republicano, perdió la primaria en su patio, el estado del Sol que representa en el Senado, víctima de una barrida propinada por Donald Trump, el controvertido, prejuicioso e instigador precandidato que continúa su acelerada carrera hacia la nominación...
Continue
»
Nearly a month after turning out 20,000 people in an action at the state capitol last month, immigrant community members and allies in Wisconsin appear to be on the cusp of a major victory in their state. According to Wisconsin group Voces de la Frontera, the State Senate is...
Continue
»
It’s Donald Trump’s party now as House Republicans, led by Speaker Paul Ryan, are set to vote on filing an amicus brief against President Obama’s immigration action as soon as Thursday. Speaker Ryan has himself called his move “a very extraordinary step,” and it’s confirmation that this lawsuit is...
Continue
»
The notorious Steve King is in the middle of leading a House “task force” on so-called “executive overreach,” with the GOP-led hearing a reaction to the President exercising his authority on immigration (which Republicans refused to take up legislatively in the first place). Anyway, we managed to get our hands on...
Continue
»
English (en español al final de la página): Bloomberg: Two Parties, Two Radically Different Visions on Immigration By Sahil Kapur DailyKos: Ryan to advance ‘extraordinary’ effort to politicize the SCOTUS case on Obama’s immigration efforts By Kerry Eleveld AP: AP News Guide: Now Come Ohio, Florida, 3 Other Big...
Continue
»
Democratic Congressional leaders are slamming a Republican vote expected later this week, led by Speaker Paul Ryan, “on a resolution seeking the power to file an amicus brief on behalf of the entire House of Representatives opposing President Obama’s immigration actions.” Told press today I will oppose GOP amicus brief resolution challenging @POTUS’ executive actions on...
Continue
»
