We know you guys have plenty of questions that need to be answered regarding President Barack Obama’s new DREAM relief policy, and we’ll be doing our best to get you that information as it comes our way. That said, here is a four-pager that we received late yesterday —...
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will speak at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) conference tomorrow. Since Mitt Romney has refused to discuss immigration in front of Latino audiences or to respond directly to the news of the DREAMer protections announced last Friday, this event is highly anticipated....
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June 2012 Latino Voters Want Respect, All Voters Want Solutions With the Supreme Court having ruled on Arizona’s anti-immigration law, SB 1070, we turn to another court for its ruling—the court of public opinion. Polls show support for both state-based laws and comprehensive, federal reform—not to mention pro-immigrant policies...
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Romney Has Thus Far Avoided Direct Answers on DREAMer Protections or Saying “Immigration” Before Latino Audiences Washington, DC – Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will speak at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) conference tomorrow, a speech eagerly anticipated due to Romney’s ongoing refusal to discuss immigration...
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For the past eighteen months, Speaker John Boehner has entrusted immigration policy to three of the most anti-immigrant voices in the GOP caucus: Lamar Smith, Elton Gallegly and Steve King. That trio has held one immigrant bashing hearing after another. Of course, all three of them — and Boehner...
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Jun 19, 2012
June 2012 Last Friday, President Obama announced that young undocumented immigrants in college will be able to apply for protection from deportation and work permits. Newly-released polls show that voters strongly feel the President did the right thing—and Latino voters are more enthusiastic about his re-election because he took...
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Yesterday, we got word that Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the leading anti-immigrant voice in the House of Representatives, had scheduled a press conference on immigration. That wasn’t a surprise. In the wake of President Obama’s bold action to protect DREAMers, we expected the usual backlash from Smith. After all,...
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Jun 18, 2012
On Friday, President Obama and DHS announced welcome news that undocumented youth are now free from deportation, and can register to receive work permits. And while we’re still gleaning information on how this process will work, we thought that in the meantime, we’d pull together a list of resources...
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On the June 17th broadcast of “Face the Nation” on CBS News, Mitt Romney was asked three times whether as President he would accept or rescind President Obama’s executive action to protect hundreds of thousands of DREAMers. Romney dodged the question three times (see transcript below). The following is a...
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In an AP article today, it’s reported that President Obama has granted administrative relief to those who would be eligible for the DREAM Act.
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