The Republican presidential contest appears to be winnowing down to a two-person race. As ABC News Political Director Rick Klein assesses, “With Chris Christie and Jeb Bush gone, and Marco Rubio and John Kasich left scrambling to win their home states, Republicans are facing the prospect of seeing Ted Cruz...
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Senior Justice Department Official: “I’ve told you I have trained 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds in immigration law’’ Earlier this year we learned that the Obama administration had ramped up efforts targeting young people who fled violence in Central America for deportation. While the administration insists those targeted in the most...
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El caso subraya la desconexión que hay entre los valores que dice defender el gobierno y lo que está ocurriendo en realidad A principios de este año supimos que el gobierno de Obama había empezado a enfocarse en refugiados recientemente llegados de América Central —en particular gente joven que...
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Case Highlights Disconnect Between Administration’s Stated Values And What Is Happening On the Ground Earlier this year we learned that the Obama administration had started to target recently arrived Central American refugees—including young people who fled violence in their home countries—for deportation. 19 year old Kimberly Pineda Chavez’s case...
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2016 Shaping Up to Make Romney/Republicans’ 2012 Disaster Look Quaint Washington, DC— Later this morning, Mitt Romney is set to blast Donald Trump and weigh in on the state of the 2016 Republican primary campaign. If Romney’s comments touch upon immigration, we should all pay special attention. After histerrible performance...
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Con Donald Trump como firme favorito del Partido Republicano, algunos candidatos y funcionarios electos están criticando su estrecha relación con nacionalistas blancos, aunque admiten sin embargo que lo respaldarán si resulta ser el nominado. Republicanos como Paul Ryan pueden no admitir que se han convertido en el Partido de...
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With Donald Trump firmly in the GOP front-runner seat, some Republican candidates and elected officials are criticizing his cozy relationship with white nationalists, while admitting that they will nonetheless back him if he is the eventual nominee. Republicans like Paul Ryan may not want to admit that they have become the Party of Trump,...
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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...
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El verano pasado, dimos a conocer el “Mapa del Odio de Donald Trump”, una mirada integral a los lugares y hechos donde los latinos, inmigrantes y otras personas de color han sido acosados o atacados por Trump y sus seguidores. Hicimos notar que, a un nivel sin precedente en la historia...
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El creciente movimiento en contra de Trump es bienvenido, pero debió empezar hace nueve meses El creciente movimiento conservador que se opone a Donald Trump hace plantearse la siguiente pregunta: a excepción de unos pocos valientes conservadores, ¿dónde ha estado la mayoría de esos opositores durante los últimos nueve...
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