Yesterday, in the U.S. Senate, a subcommittee led by Alabama Senator Richard Shelby voted to block the Obama Administration’s request to ensure that children fleeing violence in Central America have access to legal representation when they receive their day in immigration court. While subcommittee votes don’t usually generate a...
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Jun 10, 2015
Suzanne Gamboa of NBCNews.com Recaps the State of Play on Immigration Policy and Politics With the President’s DAPA program and the expansion of DACA held up in the courts, there’s been much confusion about what it means for people and politics. In a new NBCNews.com piece, Suzanne Gamboa succinctly distills the state of play on...
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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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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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Democrats Stepping Up AS GOP Contenders Step (Way) Back Immigration is shaping up as one of the sharpest points of contrast between the two parties’ 2016 presidential fields. While Democrats are embracing pro-immigrant policies and leaning into the new politics of immigration at a never-before-seen level, Republicans seem intent to ignore...
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Jun 3, 2015
DREAMers Refuse to be silenced by Citizens United and Steve King DES MOINES — Today at 5:30pm central, national immigrant rights leaders along with Iowa advocates are holding a press conference in front of the Polk County Courthouse to send a message to 2016 GOP Presidential Candidates that the...
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With immigration playing a major role on the campaign trail and with the official entry of Democratic candidate Martin O’Malley and Republican candidate Lindsey Graham, America’s Voice offers a reminder of our 2016 immigration politics resources: REPUBLICAN PARTY: CANDIDATE PROFILES AND ANALYSIS CANDIDATE BACKGROUNDER: Individual 2016 candidate...
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DACA Recipient and Immigration Activist Juan Escalante Says DACA 2012 Now “100% Operational” This week, by an overwhelming majority, the Nebraska unicameral legislature voted 34-10 to override the Governor’s veto of LB 623—a bill that will allow DACA recipients to obtain driver’s licenses. Nebraska is the last state to allow DACAmented...
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Washington Post Exposes the GOP’s “Secure the Border First” Mantra as Fact-Free A new front-page story in the Washington Post by Jerry Markon finds that “illegal immigration flows have fallen to their lowest level in at least two decades.” It quotes Gil Kerlikowske, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection as saying...
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A new report from America’s Voice assesses the recent history of Democrats and immigration – their evolution on immigration policy and politics – as well as the record and background of Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on the issue. The report, titled “Will Democrats Embrace the New Politics of Immigration...
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