Immigrant rights groups delivered a massive 136,000 petition signatures to the White House yesterday calling on President Obama to stop the ICE raids targeting vulnerable Central American refugees for deportation. Join us today to deliver the signatures of 136,000 Americans asking POTUS to #StopTheRaids! #FamiliesFightBack pic.twitter.com/hTGA5L5PHX — RI4A (@RI4A)...
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Earlier today, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez slammed an upcoming, Republican-led Judiciary Committee hearing on Central American refugees, saying it lacks any “serious attempt to legislate” and will only serve to “continue to feed the hucksterism and red meat politics that Americans hate.” Rep. Gutiérrez addressed the very real-life situation of immigrants...
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English (en español al final de la página): Huffington Post: Ted Cruz And Donald Trump Oppose Immigration Reform, But Could Be Helping The Cause Anyway By Elise Foley Latin Post: Diverse Advocacy Groups to Obama: Stop the Deportation Raids, Enact Temporary Protections By Michael Oleaga La Prensa: LOIRA and...
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English (en español al final de la página): Sunshine State News: Sanctuary Cities Bill Could Mean Big Penalties For Florida’s Largest Counties By Allison Nielsen New York Times: Polls Show Preferences and Priorities in Iowa By Thomas Kaplan and Dalia Sussman New York Times: Donald Trump Leads Among Those...
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A host of Latino, Asian, immigrant, and labor rights groups have launched naturalization drives aimed at permanent residents eligible for citizenship — and the images from these workshops and outreach efforts have been absolutely inspiring. Some of the inspiration for getting Latino and immigrant voters out to naturalize and vote has...
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Here’s more of that #TrumpEffect in action. During a “Meet the Press” appearance on Sunday, Presidential candidate Marco Rubio continued to cement his hardliner stance on immigration by claiming that the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has actually increased. “We are worse off today than we...
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English (en español al final de la página): Latin Post: Poll Finds Obama’s Name Hurts Immigration Plan By Andrew Puglie Talking Points Memo: This Is The Jeff Sessions Election And The GOP Is Just Along For The Ride By Lauren Fox Washington Post: The GOP’s condemnation of ‘sanctuary cities’...
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Rep. Luis Gutiérrez and a coalition of groups want to get one million new citizens naturalized this year to vote against ugly anti-Latino, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim rhetoric. In past years that may have been a pretty lofty number, but recent offensive comments from Republicans have galvanized Latinos and immigrant across the nation to launch...
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Nearly a year after his deportation to Honduras, a new effort to return Pastor Max to his family in Iowa has begun. Rep. Dave Loebsack, from Iowa’s Second Congressional District, yesterday introduced legislation aimed at reuniting the Pastor with his wife Gloria and their four US citizen children in...
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English (en español al final de la página): Vox: 2016 is forcing immigration activists to tear up their old playbook By Dara Lind AP: Debate Takeaways: Without Trump, Spotlight on Cruz, Rubio USA Today: Bush to Rubio: You ‘cut and run’ on immigration By Cooper Allen Washington Post: The...
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