Earlier this month, House Republicans made funding for the Department of Homeland Security contingent on overturning DACA and DAPA — and now they’re waiting for Senate Republicans to do the same. More than half a million DACA-mented young people in the last two years have flourished as a result...
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Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Arizona will be one of the witnesses testifying at today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the “Adequacy and Enforcement of Our Nation’s Immigration Laws.” Yesterday we wrote about Babeu’s past with the undocumented lover he threatened, his connection to the John Tanton network,...
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CNN: Homeland Security bill faces key vote on Tuesday By Ted Barrett Bloomberg: Iowa Poll: Jeb Bush Has a Big Problem By John McCormick Politico: Barack Obama: DHS impasse could mean ‘end of a paycheck’ for thousands By Seung Min Kim Wall Street Journal: Obama Immigration Budget Underscores Deep...
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When Republicans want to hear “expert” testimony on anti-immigrant views, there is apparently only shop in town: the John Tanton network. Tanton, of course, is the white nationalist who founded or helped found three key anti-immigrant groups, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (or FAIR, a hate group), the Center...
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La Opinión (Editorial): Who To Listen To in The GOP? Dallas Morning News (Opinion-Texas): Texan’s tough border security bill draws protests — from the right By Todd Gillman Huffington Post: Immigration Advocates Try To Assuage Fears Over Executive Action By Elise Foley Cronkite News Service: Critics force immigration reform...
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International Business Times: Obama Executive Actions Fight Shouldn’t Be Tied To Homeland Security Funding, Ex-DHS Secretaries Say By Harold Koplowitz Politico: Rand Paul ‘secret tape’ dings Jeb, Hillary on dynasty By Mike Allen The Atlantic: Scott Walker Isn’t Sorry By Peter Beinart Political Wire: Huckabee Advocates Path to Citizenship...
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As Pema Levy points out in a post at Mother Jones today, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is the Senate’s equivalent of Steve King, and is just as much an anti-immigrant hardliner though with slightly less of a tendency for repeated gaffes. The thing though, is that the Senate GOP leadership has...
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Earlier this month, House Republicans made funding for the Department of Homeland Security contingent on overturning DACA and DAPA — and now they’re waiting for Senate Republicans to do the same. More than half a million DACA-mented young people in the last two years have flourished as a result...
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The DREAMers are at it again! Yesterday, before the start of Loretta Lynch’s confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee, DREAMers with United We Dream chased down a number of SJC Republicans and asked them what they thought about Steve King calling young immigrants “deportables.” “Am I a deportable?”...
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Mother Jones: Step Aside, Steve King: Meet the Right’s Most Powerful Immigration Foe By Pema Levy National Journal: Obama Will Warn GOP Against Homeland Security Shutdown By Alex Brown Washington Post: Ex-DHS secretaries warn Congress not to ‘risk funding for the operations that protect every American’ By Ed O’Keefe...
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