Apr 15, 2013
One day after Marco Rubio appeared on all of the Sunday talk shows, and one day before the big Senate immigration bill is scheduled to be released, here are the news clips of the day: Huffington Post (Blog): John Cornyn: Up to His Old Tricks on Immigration By Frank...
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I can’t stop smiling! Yesterday, Senator Bob Menendez announced that he and the rest of the Senate’s bi-partisan “Gang of 8” plan to introduce their immigration bill on Tuesday. >Most importantly, Senator Menendez said the Gang of 8’s immigration bill will have a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million...
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Apr 12, 2013
Cross-posted at Huffington Post and Burnt Orange Report: As a group of eight senators, four Republicans and four Democrats, work together to make progress on immigration reform, there’s one senator not in the group to keep an eye on. His name is John Cornyn. In fact, Cornyn is famous for...
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House members opposed to immigration reform are apparently so marginalized now that the leader of their own specifically designated space for hating on immigrants, the House Immigration Reform Caucus, doesn’t agree with them. Some of the most notorious anti-immigrant Republicans in the House, all with their own storied history...
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The Senate Gang of 8 immigration bill will likely not be publicly released until sometime next week. But, Washington being Washington, details about the bill are already leaking out, including this troubling piece from the AP: A bipartisan immigration bill soon to be introduced in the Senate could exclude...
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Tens of thousands of people showed up on April 10th for the Time is Now “Rally for Citizenship” in Washington DC. The rally, which was put together by SEIU, the Center for Community Change and CASA de Maryland with the support of the Alliance for Citizenship brought together people...
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Associated Press: Immigration Bill Could Exclude Hundreds Of Thousands From Citizenship: Senate Aide By Erica Werner Associated Press: Senate group wraps up details on immigration bill, expects a rollout for measure next week By Erica Werner New York Times: Immigration Bill Is Expected to Open Opportunities Based on Work...
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The following is a press release from the New Democrat Coalition: Today, New Democrat Coalition Chair Ron Kind (WI-03), Vice Chair Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02), Immigration Task Force Chairs Reps. Jared Polis (CO-02), Joaquin Castro (TX-20), and Joe Garcia (FL-26), and other New Dem Members released a framework for...
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined with an all-star lineup of technology leaders and executives today to launch a new bipartisan political advocacy group that advocates for immigration reform, called FWD.us (“forward US”). The PAC will focus on “comprehensive immigration reform that allows for the hiring of the best...
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Yesterday’s “Time is Now” rally for immigration reform was a huge success, drawing as many as 100,000 immigration activists, advocates, and supporters to the Capitol lawn. But of course, not everyone there was fighting for immigration. By our count, about 3-5 people weren’t–and they turned out to be pretty...
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