Jul 25, 2014
TIME: Obama Eyes Major Immigration Move Politico: Barack Obama’s immigration rhetoric: Then and now Tampa Bay Times: Sen. Marco Rubio wants to ‘wind down’ program for immigrant youth Wall Street Journal: Where Child Migrant Surge Could Hit Home Wall Street Journal: GOP Governors Knock Obama on Illegal-Immigrant Influx MSNBC:...
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Reps. Lloyd Doggett (TX), Juan Vargas (CA), and Zoe Lofgren (CA), all Democrats, took to the House floor this morning for a series of speeches about the children’s crisis at the border and how legal protections for them should not be rolled back. Republicans have now spent weeks arguing...
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New America Media: Border Crisis: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Arizona Republic: House group wants faster deportations, Guard on border New York Times: U.S. Religious Leaders Embrace Cause of Immigrant Children Reuters: Exclusive: Obama sends team to Texas to assess need for National Guard deployment Politico: House GOP...
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We’ve been warning the GOP for years, but they didn’t listen. Today, we are highlighting the GOP’s demographic demise in Colorado with a mock obituary, which will run as an online ad in the Aurora Sentinel. View the ad online here. After the 2012 election, in which Barack Obama...
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The conservative response to the children fleeing violence crisis has been mostly been marked by the Murrieta, CA protest, in which Tea Partiers shouted at frightened children and yelled at them to “go home” — and by Republican members of Congress clamoring to deport the children (and DREAMers along...
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Watch Jorge Ramos’ interview on Bill O’Reilly’s show yesterday, courtesy of Media Matters: O’Reilly, unlike just about everyone else, seems to think that Rick Perry’s political stunt with the National Guard will actually work, because it will “seal the border.” No word from him on how exactly this makes sense...
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Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) just became the latest Republican to call for an end to DACA: McCain on question if DACA needs to end: “It does. We need comprehensive immigration reform.” says DACA just appeased Obama voters — Kate Nocera (@KateNocera) July 22, 2014 It’s not necessarily what McCain...
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What does an MNSBC show have in common with one of Spanish-language media’s most popular daily newspapers? Currently, a great mockery for Texas Governor Rick Perry and his decision to pull a political stunt at the border by sending in 1,000 troops, even though there’s nothing they can do for...
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