Once again, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) is leading the charge to undermine immigration reform. As our Executive Director here at America’s Voice Frank Sharry has noted, Cornyn has played that role before, the last time immigration reform legislation was debated in 2006-2007. This time, Cornyn is planning to introduce a...
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The Hill: Immigration reform hinges on Rubio proposals for border security By Alexander Bolton National Journal: The Two Faces of Marco Rubio By Rebecca Kaplan Bloomberg: Top Democrats Ready to Oppose Views to Save Immigration By Kathleen Hunter Talking Points Memo: GOP In A Bind As Dems Reject Cornyn’s...
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In this week’s address, President Obama talked about the Gang of 8 immigration bill, which hit the Senate floor yesterday. The President urged the Senate to act quickly to pass the bill in order to fix our broken immigration system. Watch the video here. Transcript is below: Remarks of...
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Jun 7, 2013
Today, America’s Voice Education Fund alongside other immigration advocates, policy experts and labor leaders held the fifteenth in a series of weekly “Office Hours” press briefings. Each week, a different and diverse group of speakers from a range of backgrounds shares the latest information on the players, politics, legislation...
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The weeping family members of deportees met with Rep. Gutierrez and other Congressmembers this week, and President Obama is facing protests in California today over his deportation policies, but apparently Jeff Sessions actually believes that “nobody” is being deported from the US anymore. “The federal government has reached a point...
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There’s been a lot of news about Senator John Cornyn’s plans to introduce a poison pill border security amendment when the Gang of 8 immigration bill hits the floor next week. This afternoon, Greg Sargent reports on a very important development: Senate Democrats aren’t going along with Cornyn. They...
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By Yoli Navas: Every day, families are being torn apart by the deportation of undocumented parents of US-citizen children. Human Impact Partners estimates that in the past year anywhere between 60,000 and 150,000 children have been separated from either one parent or both by the nation’s “heartless detain-and-deport immigration...
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Bloomberg: Rubio Balancing U.S. Immigration Plan With Fragile Support By Kathleen Hunter The Atlantic: How the GOP Can Screw Up Its 2016 By Garnace Frank-Ruta NBC: Immigration proponents get new data to support reform cause By Carrie Dann and Alexa Dragoumis NBC Latino: Attention Congress: Immigration top Latino voter...
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Update: Right now, Sessions and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) are tag-teaming about the virtue of legal immigrants versus those who are undocumented immigrants. Funny, because earlier this week a Sessions staffer, Danielle Cutrona was on a NumbersUSA call where a speaker came out against LEGAL immigration. It looks like...
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The same day that Karl Rove published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal warning Republicans about the need to better shape Latino perceptions of the GOP, and the same day that John Boehner penned a Spanish-language op-ed in La Opinion entitled “Protecting the American Dream,” almost every House...
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