Three skilled carpenters are building the “holy chair” Pope Francis will use during his Mass at Madison Square Garden when he visits the United States next month — and all three men are immigrants. Pope Francis has famously made immigrants rights a key part of his papacy, once tweeting...
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English (en español al final de la página): New York Times (Opinion): Donald Trump’s American Idiocy By Lawrence Downes Times Picayune (Louisiana): Jindal joins Trump in urging end to birthright citizenship By Bruce Alpert Hot Air: Quotes of the day New York Times: Donald Trump Paints Republicans Into Corner...
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Ricardo is an undocumented immigrant and works hard at three different jobs — and one of those jobs is at a Trump hotel. In an incredible video from New Left Media, Ricardo describes working as a busboy at the only restaurant at Trump Soho, and his subsequent reaction to...
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“Attention, presidential candidates: If they haven’t already…Iowa DREAMers are coming for you.” In a must-read piece, the Des Moines Register profiles the young activists driving the immigration debate in Iowa as both Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates visit to draw support for next year’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. In particular, the...
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English (en español al final de la página): Washington Post: Trump driving migrant debate among GOP field By David Fahrenthold, Jenna Johnson, and Max Ehrenfreund NBC News: Conservative Expert: Trump Plan Ignores Immigration Benefits By Suzanne Gamboa McClatchy: Trump migrant proposals could be ‘catastrophic’ to both U.S., Mexico By...
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Last weekend, AV’s Maribel Hastings joined José Díaz-Balart on Telemundo’s Enfoque to discuss immigration and the current state of the 2016 Presidential election. In the Spanish-language interview, Hastings and Diaz-Balart, along with Dan Garza of the LIBRE Initiative, discussed several of the Presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders,...
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Over the weekend, leading Republican candidate Donald Trump went into further detail about his immigrant “plans” — an ugly, nativist wish-list proposing to round up and deport a population the size of Ohio — and at least one other GOP candidate is already eagerly onboard. From the Huffington Post:...
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English (en español al final de la página): Wall Street Journal: Donald Trump Says He Would Deport Illegal Immigrants By Heather Haddon USA Today: Trump: Undocumented immigrants ‘have to go’ By Kevin Johnsons Bloomberg: Donald Trump Gives Anti-Immigration Republicans Their Dream Plan By Sahil Kapur CNN: Trump outlines immigration...
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In a new piece from VICE, an official from the Social Security Administration states that undocumented immigrants are paying an estimated $13 billion — yup, that’s with a “b” — in Social Security taxes every year. So much for immigrants being moochers, right? Stephen Goss, chief actuary of the SSA,...
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English (en español al final de la página): New York Times: John Kasich’s Appeal to Moderates Gains Traction in New Hampshire By Jonathan Martin National Journal: Marco Rubio Makes a Move Out of the Past By Ronald Brownstein The Hill: O’Malley outlines benchmarks for his administration By Jonathan Easley...
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