The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent published an interview today with Jorge Ramos. If we worked for Speaker John Boehner, we’d make sure he sees this one. Ramos is pretty clear about Boehner’s role in immigration reform – and that Hispanic media is watching him – closely. Greg’s post is worth...
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George Zornick at The Nation spent some time today at the Tanton Network’s anti-immigrant event today: If there’s one media failing in the immigration debate, it is that many mainstream reporters hedge around the fact that at least some conservative opposition to the bill is based in cultural and even racial...
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And that, folks, is why you also buy related websites when purchasing vanity URLs. The Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA) march against immigration reform–a product of the Tanton Network–was held on the Capitol lawn this morning, featuring a few hundred mostly-white Tea Partiers rallying against “amnesty” and “illegals.” Many of the...
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Washington Post (Blog): How Janet Napolitano’s resignation could help immigration reform By Greg Sargent Washington Post: How much will Napolitano’s departure affect immigration reform’s prospects? Not much. By Juliet Eilperin Slate: Republicans Just Love to Hate Janet Napolitano By David Weigel Mother Jones: Sen. Schumer’s Bright Idea: Ray Kelly...
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Today, immigration reform opponents are gathering in DC for the so-called “March for Jobs,” an event hosted the Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA). Featuring the likes of Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions, Steve King, Mo Brooks, and Allen West–and promoted by NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies–the event promises to...
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Jul 12, 2013
GOP Conference Meeting, Sec. Janet Napolitano’s Resignation, Latino Influence on 2014 Congressional Races, Future Latino Voters are Up for Grabs Today, America’s Voice Education Fund alongside other immigration advocates and policy experts held the eighteenth in a series of weekly “Office Hours” press briefings. Moderated by Frank Sharry, Executive Director at America’s Voice Education Fund,...
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Earlier this week, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal came out against the Senate immigration bill in a National Review column that Dave Weigel slammed as “incoherent until you realize he wants to win the Iowa caucuses.” Jindal wrote a lot about how there was pork in the Senate bill, and then said...
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In the fight for immigration reform, two of the political incentives for House Republicans to vote for a bill involve constituent breakdown: how “purple” their district is politically, and how Latino it is demographically. That’s what the scatterplot below shows, for many (not all) of the House Republicans who...
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New York Times columnist David Brooks has a great column today, lifting up some of the many reasons why House Republicans should pass immigration reform–and beating down some of their reasons for opposing it. You can read the full column here. According to Brooks, letting the House kill immigration...
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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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