We’re back from a long weekend, and the fight for immigration reform has pivoted. Following the passage of bipartisan immigration legislation in the Senate by a 68-32 vote, all attention is on the House and Speaker John Boehner. Unfortunately, up first is this Wednesday’s House Republican internal meeting on immigration. The...
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Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID), formerly of the House Group of 8 on immigration, got into a widely-covered spat with conservative columnist David Brooks this weekend, when Brooks called the Congressman out for opposing the Senate immigration bill. Labrador, who this weekend also spent time warning Republicans about the perils of...
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New York Times: Shifting Stance to Back Immigration Overhaul, Reid Reaps Benefits By Carl Huse National Journal: Advocates of Senate Bill Turn Their Attention to the House By Rebecca Kaplan Politico: Immigration bill’s starts and stops By Seung Min Kim MSNBC: The right’s desperate search for more white voters...
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The Senate passed the Gang of 8 immigration bill—S. 744—last week by a 68-32 vote. But that does NOT mean that immigration reform has passed yet. There are a few steps left to go: the House now must pass a bill (view this piece from the Washington Post Wonkblog on...
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The Hill: Poll: Clinton tops Bush, Rubio among Hispanic voters for 2016 By Justin Sink Politico: 2016 Latino poll: Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio lead By Hadas Gold U.S. News and World Report: Poll: Rubio Tops GOP Pols for Hispanic Voters, Clinton Leads Dems By Rebekah Metzler Tampa Bay Times:...
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The immigration reform debate has moved onto the House, where political commentators are trying to gauge support for reform among Democratic and Republican Congressmen. We’ll have a lot more to say about this over the summer, but GOP Congressmen who haven’t come onboard the issue should know that immigration...
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Immigration reform may have passed through the Senate (by a 68-32 vote last Thursday), but it doesn’t mean the fight is over. Far from it. Legislation must now move through the Republican-dominated House, where Speaker John Boehner has said that he will not bring a bill up for a...
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USA Today/ Gannet: Odd alliance could be key to deal on immigration bill By Mary Orndorff Troyan The Arizona Republic: McCain, Flake hopeful about bill’s effect By Dan Nowicki The Atlantic: Are Liberals Turning on Immigration Reform? By Molly Ball New York Times: Varied Alliance to Press House on...
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