Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) have become the latest Senators to encourage President Obama to address his record rate of deportations. As Sen. Schumer told Politico in a statement today: We remain focused on passing a balanced immigration bill that secures our borders and fixes a broken...
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Latin Times: Immigration Reform 2014: House GOP Leaders Moving Bill To Axe Immigrant-Outreach Job By David Iaconangelo Fusion: Menendez Challenges Obama to Stop Deportations By Jordan Fabian Politico: 2 senators seek fewer deportations By Seung Min Kim The Hill: House Dem calls Obama ‘deporter in chief’ By Pete Kasperowicz...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) spent time on the House floor today speaking about “Obama Derangement Syndrome,” defined by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post as an affliction in which “the president’s opponents are so determined to thwart him that they will reverse long-held views if they believe it will...
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The Obama budget proposal is out, and it would like to reduce the detention bed mandate by about 10%. DHS is currently required to fill 34,000 immigrant detention center beds every day, regardless of what current immigration levels are or what detained immigrants have done (or not done) to get...
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This week, Speaker Boehner identified immigration reform as one key issue that he and President Obama agree on. “He wants to get it done,” Boehner said. “I want to get it done. But he’s going to have to help us in this process.” Um, what? As Steve Benen at...
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This week, we’ve written a number of pieces on the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case of anti-immigrant ordinances in Farmers’ Branch, Texas and Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Deprived of further opportunities for appeal, these anti-immigrant laws have effectively reached the end of their journey, after the towns that...
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Washington Post (Plum Line): Dems expected to move forward with discharge petition on immigration By Greg Sargent Politico: Nancy Pelosi: Discharge decision coming soon By Seung Min Kim Bloomberg BNA: Immigration Roundup: Enforcing Enforcement By Laura D. Francis Huffington Post: Latino Vote Could Tip Scales For Democrats In Arizona:...
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Mar 4, 2014
By mid-March, it is estimated that President Obama will have deported 2 million immigrants over the course of his presidency. Years of record breaking deportation numbers will make him the president who has deported more immigrants than any other in history, and this week Obama is losing the support...
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