Last night, Rachel Maddow aired a segment on what’s next for immigration reform in the House, or as she called it, “the nonsense-hole that is the United States Congress.” Last month, the Senate passed its immigration bill by a 68-32 vote, which sets up a dilemma for the House,...
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LA Times: Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security chief, to head UC By Larry Gordon Huffington Post: John Boehner On Pathway To Citizenship: ‘We’re Going To Find Out’ If It Can Pass By Elise Foley Bloomberg: Boehner Sticks With Step-by-Step Approach on Immigration By Roxana Tiron and Kathleen Hunter USA Today:...
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Twitter did a collective double-take yesterday, when accounts connected to the Obama and Bush administrations tweeted at each other in an online shout-out to their respective Youtube videos making the economic case for immigration reform: These are administrations who don’t have too many policy positions in common, whose relationship might be characterized as...
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Quinnipiac August 2, 2013 A new Quinnipiac poll finds that 64 percent of voters support the Senate immigration bill, including 60 percent of Republicans. How to square this with polls showing that Republicans oppose a path to citizenship? One possibility: when polls offer a stark choice — do you support citizenship or not —...
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Arizona Republic: House defiant on Senate migrant bill By Erin Kelly and Dan Nowicki Bloomberg: Obama Set to Go All Out With Public Amid Immigration Opposition By Mike Dorning Voxxi: Democrats reject House GOP’s piecemeal approach to immigration reform By Grizelda Nevarez Associated Press: House GOP goes piecemeal on...
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Hundreds of immigrants, DREAMers, and their families rallied outside the Capitol today for immigration reform, telling stories about their deported family members, giving voice to fears that they might be removed from the only country they’ve ever called home, and asking Congress to do the right thing by 11...
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Watch video from the events here, and view some of our favorite tweets below:
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Here are just a few reasons why we believe that “conventional wisdom” on immigration will prove to be wrong once again this year…
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