UPDATE: Here’s Jamelle Bouie at the Washington Post today, writing about this story and how it relates to immigration reform: Pantoja’s departure from the Republican Party is instructive. Not only does it illustrate the dynamic of the last four years — where Latino voters responded to negative Republican rhetoric...
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is up to his old tricks on immigration. Today, he issued a new video highlighting the depths of his hypocrisy when it comes to getting serious about reforming our broken system. Below is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice Education Fund,...
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We’ve written a few pieces about the Heritage Foundation’s complete implosion last week following the release of their panned economics of immigration study and the revelation that one of its co-authors believes that “Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren.” At the Deseret News today is a great piece...
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Though it can be difficult to recognize pivotal moments during the middle of a debate, last week featured several major developments that significantly strengthened the prospects of immigration reform. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice Education Fund: When immigration reform legislation is signed into law and...
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After a town hall earlier this month in which Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) referred to immigrants as “anchor babies,” members of the Wisconsin immigrant-rights group Voces de la Frontera (and their youth arm, Youth Empowered in the Struggle), collected and delivered 7,226 petitions asking Ryan to apologize for using...
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New York Times: In Immigration Bill Talks, House Group Raises Voice By Ashley Parker Daily Beast: Immigration’s Odd Couple: Two Puerto Rican Congressmen Forge a Deal By Sandra McElwaine The Hill: Issa tapped for major role on immigration By Jennifer Martinez The Hill: Senate Judiciary panel to debate high-skilled...
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Ben Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP, posted this great article on African Americans and immigration reform at Huffington Post today. It’s entitled “No Second Class Families,” and you can read an excerpt of it below: African Americans have spent much of our history fighting for equal treatment....
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Virtually all of the GOP’s top-tier potential candidates for president in 2016—Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul—are supporters of immigration reform. For whoever runs, Florida will be a crucial, must-win state. And Florida supports immigration reform too. A new poll released this week by the Public Policy...
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This morning we wrote about how this Sunday–Mothers’ Day–is the fifth anniversary of Postville, Iowa, a brutal immigration raid that led to hundreds of deportations, untold numbers of separated families, and one devastated community. Today, advocates and allies in Iowa are commemorating the Iowa raid, sending letters to their...
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Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the eleventh in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Moderated by Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director at America’s Voice Education Fund, the call featured Marielena Hincapié, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center; Pramila Jayapal, Co-Chair of the We Belong...
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