Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and other Republican Senators are making it clear that they need to see even more enforcement and a tougher path to citizenship in this compromise legislation. This is raising concerns that the GOP will upset the careful balance in the Gang of Eight bill by demanding “border security...
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The Senate Gang of 8 immigration bill will likely move to the Senate floor next week, and if there’s one person who’s been in front of the charge to delay and stall the bill, it’s Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-AL). A profile by Jordan Fabian at ABC/Univision today goes...
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Update: Also congratulations to Connecticut for moving forward with a bill that will soon protect undocumented immigrants who report crime. All attention for immigration legislation is on the Gang of 8 reform bill that’s soon to hit the Senate floor—but major changes that could benefit immigrants’ lives are...
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USA Today (Gannett Washington Bureau): Immigration bill faces tough path in full Senate By Erin Kelly ABC/Univision: Rubio: Immigration’s Possible Savior and Probable Punching Bag By Ted Hesson Washington Post (Blog): Can the GOP base really kill immigration reform? Not if Republicans don’t let it. By Greg Sargent Inquirer.net:...
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May 31, 2013
Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the fourteenth in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Each week, a different and diverse group of speakers shares the latest information on the players, politics, legislation and other developments in the debate in...
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Immigrants contribute more in to Medicare than they take out, and the Gang of 8 immigration bill would help keep Social Security afloat. But Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), immigration reform opponent extraordinaire, is still obsessed with finding a way—any way—to prove that immigrants are a drain on society. Sometime...
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This week, longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly issued a call for the Republican Party to abandon immigration reform and Hispanic outreach in favor of a strategy focused on white voters. Talking Points Memo reports: “Phyllis Schlafly of the ‘pro-family’ group Eagle Forum called the GOP’s need to reach out to Hispanic voters a ‘great...
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Last summer, a group called the “Nuns on the Bus” traveled nearly 3,000 miles through nine states to protest Republican budget plans, and this year they’re back—fighting in support of immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. This week in New York, with the Statue of Liberty in the...
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The Hill: Pro-immigrant groups balk at Gang of Eight’s goal of 70 votes By Alexander Bolton Los Angeles Times: Opponents of immigration reform face changed landscape By Lisa Moscaro NBC News: Immigration and the blame game By Mark Murray NBC News: For promoters and foes, immigration bill’s larger impact...
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The following is a press statement from the National Immigration Forum and Sojourners: As momentum builds in support of broad, commonsense immigration reform, the Evangelical Immigration Table announced today its newest and largest paid-media campaign to reach evangelicals on the issue of immigration. On a press call today, national...
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