Today, leaders from the AFL-CIO hosted a press call to announce their campaign for immigration reform. From the press release: Comprehensive immigration reform with a road map to citizenship is essential to all of America’s workers, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a telephone press conference today, as he...
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As we noted earlier, that immigration reform legislation should include a path to citizenship for the 11 million is a view shared by the American people and key players across the political spectrum. The holdouts are some House Republicans. Rep. Raúl Labrador made that clear today, via Elise Foley: Rep. Raúl...
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Citizenship is the mainstream position in the immigration debate. Despite attempts by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID), and others to position earned citizenship as an “extreme” position, the opposite is the case – the burgeoning push for “no citizenship” is the outlier position, outside...
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There’s been intense backlash against creating what Talking Point Memo’s Josh Marshall calls “second class non-citizenship status” — the idea from some House Republicans to prevent citizenship for undocumented immigrants. The consensus across the spectrum is that the path to citizenship is, in fact, the “middle ground.” New York...
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During the House Judiciary Committee immigration hearing yesterday, Republicans’ attempted to define a policy that offers undocumented immigrants “legal residency but not a path to citizenship” as the “middle-ground option in the debate over immigration” according to the New York Times. Judiciary Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) asked, “Are there options we...
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There was a ton of coverage of immigration yesterday given the House Hearing, Obama’s meetings and statements from Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor. Today, we compiled a pretty hefty collection of article and posts on the key subjects. Also, Greg Sargent from The Plum Line at the Washington...
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At The Plum Line, Greg Sargent has been getting to the crux of the policy and politics of immigration. Over the past couple days, he has written several important posts on the issue. This morning, Greg wrote: In recent days, Republicans have begun to spin misleading impressions of the two parties’...
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Feb 5, 2013
DREAMers protesting today’s immigration hearing: (Watch C-SPAN video of the hearing itself here.) Up with Chris Hayes: immigration panel last week with Lorella Praeli of United We DREAM: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Stephen Colbert on immigration reform (transcript here): The...
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