This morning, the DREAM Bar Association (DBA), the first and only bar association representing undocumented lawyers, held a press conference highlighting the launch of their “DREAM lawyers” campaign. The group is combining research, litigation, and advocacy to encourage all 50 states to grant law licenses to undocumented immigrant students—and...
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A week out from the 2012 elections, it’s clear that Latino voters’ decisive role in the electorate has boosted the prospects and accelerated the timetable for passing immigration reform legislation. Here are two key reasons why: 1) Without a significantly improved performance among Latino voters, the Republican Party’s future...
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To: America’s Voice From: David Mermin and Brittany L. Stalsburg, Lake Research Partners; Brian Nienaber, The Tarrance Group Re: Recent polling on the issue of immigration Date: November 13, 2012 View PDF of the polling results and PowerPoint presentation. A national Election Day poll of voters by Lake Research Partners...
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If one thing is clear coming out of the election, it’s this: the movement demanding citizenship for 11 million new Americans have triumphed over the anti-immigrant crowd. Mitt Romney embraced the anti-immigrant policy of “self-deportation,” thinking we would let it slide. He was wrong. In fact, many analysts have...
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From John Boehner to Sean Hannity, from Eric Cantor to Charles Krauthammer, Republicans of all stripes have spent the last week coming to terms with how they must moderate their positions on immigration in order to win the Latino vote—or eventually face irrelevance as a party. Here are even...
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Are House Republicans really about to install another anti-immigrant extremist as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee–now, when they clearly need to reconsider their standing on immigration and the Latino vote? For the past two years, the House Republicans’ immigration policy has been set by anti-immigrant hardliners like chair...
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