During the 2006-2007 immigration reform debates, the Heritage Foundation and its senior research fellow, Robert Rector, famously released a report claiming that the legislation being considered would cost the US economy $2.6 trillion. The study then helped sink immigration reform, and the Heritage Foundation this month tried to reprise...
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The continuing events in Boston loomed large over the Senate Judiciary hearing on immigration reform and the Gang of 8’s newly released legislation today, after DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was called away from her scheduled testimony. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), one of the Gang of 8, gave a strong...
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Apr 18, 2013
Today on a press call/webinar, following the release of a new Senate bipartisan immigration bill, Latino Decisions pollsters analyzed the results of their poll of 400 undocumented Latinos. The poll, sponsored by NALEO Educational Fund and America’s Voice Education Fund, has a +/- 4.9% margin of error and was conducted between March...
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If you caught the buzz about the “Marcophone” yesterday—the false story about how the Senate immigration reform bill would grant undocumented immigrants a free cell phone—you can thank our favorite Gang of 8 member, Sen. Jeff Sessions. We like to call it WWJD—What WOULDN’T Jeff Do to try and...
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Apr 17, 2013
The bipartisan Senate Gang of 8 immigration bill is finally here! Read it here. Politico: A rocky path to immigration reform By Manu Raju, Carrie Budoff Brown and Anna Palmer Washington Post: Inside the immigration bill: E-Verify expansion draws fire By Rosalind Helderman Washington Post: Inside the immigration bill:...
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As the Senate Gang of 8 prepares to roll out an immigration bill, CBS News today had this post on the immigration and the Latino vote–that is, why there is so much support for immigration reform in the first place (because it matters electorally). In 2012, Mitt Romney engaged...
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Washington Times: Allowing illegal immigrants to stay gains support, led by Republicans By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin Voxxi: More undocumented immigrants would seek citizenship now than in 1986 By Griselda Nevarez ABC/Univision: 9 in 10 Undocumented Immigrants Want Citizenship, Poll Says By Jordan Fabian Politico: Poll: Most illegal...
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A day before the planned release of the Senate Gang of 8’s immigration bill, Voto Latino launched the “I’m Ready for Immigration Reform” campaign with a coalition of other organizations, including including Rock the Vote, the NAACP, the Human Rights Campaign, the March for Innovation, the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and the Asian Pacific...
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One day after Marco Rubio appeared on all of the Sunday talk shows, and one day before the big Senate immigration bill is scheduled to be released, here are the news clips of the day: Huffington Post (Blog): John Cornyn: Up to His Old Tricks on Immigration By Frank...
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Apr 13, 2013
