Washington Post: GOP senator: House could pass Senate immigration bill today By Aaron Blake The Economist: A plea for open doors Roll Call: Steve King: I Was Right and I Won’t Apologize By Emma Dumain The Hill: GOP lawmaker: Enough with the ‘comprehensive’ already By Pete Kasperowicz VOXXI: Immigration...
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Notorious anti-immigrant extremist Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is again making incendiary immigration comments, while crowing about his role in setting the congressional direction on immigration policy. Like nearly everything associated with Steve King, his latest remarks would be viewed as extreme and almost laughably out-of-touch except for one thing:...
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Immigration reform advocates in Washington state today are holding a voter registration drive, and using the opportunity to remind House leaders like Speaker Boehner and Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (their own member of Congress) that there is a demographic and electoral imperative for them to pass immigration reform. Immigration reform supporters...
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Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL) represents a district that is 18% Hispanic, that has been listed as one of the top districts in the country where the Latino vote will have the greatest impact. Last November, a poll found that 78% of all voters there support immigration reform with a path to citizenship. And yet —...
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Right Side News: Immigration Reform News and Impact on US Homeland Security February 19, 2014 Politico: White House faces rising grassroots heat on immigration By Reid J. Epstein Politico: Activists include immigration in ‘war on women’ By Seung Min Kim TIME: Women’s Groups Not Quitting on Immigration Reform By...
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Eliseo Medina, the former secretary-treasurer of SEIU who fasted 22 days for immigration reform last fall, visited Steve King’s district in Iowa yesterday to hold a #Fast4Families prayer service. Rep. King declined to be in attendance, even though he previously issued a challenge for people of faith to debate...
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Last night, the Washington state legislature passed a financial aid bill for DREAMers when it approved the state senate’s version of the Real HOPE Act (also known as the Washington DREAM Act) in a bipartisan 75-22 vote. The bill now heads to Gov. Jay Inslee (D)’s desk, and he...
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Fox News (Opinion): Republican leaders must keep Tea Party on the run By Juan Williams International Business Times: Republican Outlook For Immigration Reform? ‘We Have To Get Past The Primaries’ By Laura Matthews The Hill: Reid: Obama should look at deportation powers By Justin Sink Arizona Republic: Immigration issue...
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