Lots of news this week, which started out with the business-and-labor agreement on immigration reform and continued with Marco Rubio’s insistence on slowing down an immigration bill. Here’s a roundup of the news you might’ve missed: New polling by Small Business Majority shows that business owners around the U.S. support immigration...
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The Hill: First key fight in immigration battle is what to name the reform bill By Molly Hooper NewsBusters: On Pacifica, Leftist Claims Victory in AP Stylebook Change, Hope for Victory on Immigration Next By Tim Graham Talking Points Memo: Poll: Republicans Want Citizenship Or Bust On Immigration Reform...
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Yesterday we wrote about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)’s apparent belief that citizenship is a “poison pill” for immigration reform, and argued that Ted Cruz is the real poison pill–if the GOP takes his advice. Today, Cruz was in Lubbock, Texas, for one of the last days of the Easter...
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It’s that time of year again! Netroots Nation 2013 will be in sunny San Jose, CA during June 20-23 this year, and America’s Voice Education Fund is teaming up with Democracy for America to offer 10 scholarships to immigration bloggers, organizers, and activists. Click here to apply for your...
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Yesterday, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Joey Kennedy took a whack at Senator Jeff Sessions for trying to stall immigration reform in their home state* newspaper, with a column entitled “Do Nothing? Now that’s something Sen. Jeff Sessions can do.” As Kennedy writes: I guess it makes sense that U.S. Sen....
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The Birmingham News: Do nothing? Now that’s something Sen. Jeff Sessions can do By Joey Kennedy New York Times (Opinion): Priced Out of Citizenship By Rahm Emmanuel and Luis Gutierrez Wall Street Journal: Trumka Warns on Immigration Touch-Back Option By Sara Murray Washington Post: Labor, faith leaders oppose cuts...
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Update: Lamar Smith’s office has announced that he plans to keep using the term “illegal immigrant”–“and trusts the the AP will keep quoting people who do so as well.” Immigration activists and advocates yesterday were abuzz with excitement when the Associated Press announced it was dropping the use of the...
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What’s the deal with Marco Rubio? First he supports a path to citizenship, but now he’s trying to put the brakes on an immigration bill. Senator Rubio said this week that the process for writing an immigration bill is going way too fast. Too fast, really? We’ve been debating and...
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Appearing on Sean Hannity’s radio show earlier this week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated: I think the reason that President Obama is insisting on a path to citizenship is that it is designed to be a poison pill to scuttle the whole bill, so he can have a political...
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The momentum of immigration reform this year, the broad agreement to start discussing immigrants as—you know—people, and years-long campaigns to push the public to “Drop the I-Word” had a huge victory yesterday, when the Associated Press announced that they no longer recommend that journalists use the term “illegal immigrant”...
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