Over the weekend, Fox New’s Laura Ingraham brought on Bob Dane, a spokesman for the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR, considered to be a hate group), to slam the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and pretend that hate groups don’t exist. “There’s a legal definition as to what...
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Jeb Bush capped off his whirlwind immigration book release with appearances on all the major English language and Spanish language Sunday shows this past weekend. After starting last week distancing himself from his past support for a path to citizenship, Bush concluded the week by embracing theSenate plan and the concept of citizenship – as predicted....
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Starting TOMORROW and continuing through this week, groups supporting immigration reform–like SEIU–are asking that you exercise your rights for immigration reform. The immigration debate is underway, and it’s crucial that we let Congress know that we support reform, and that immigration reform MUST include a path to citizenship! Please...
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Over the weekend, Jeb Bush gave immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship a bear hug, columnist George Will said that “any plan that does not envision as an end point, citizenship” will not work, and Bob Dane (a spokesman from the hate group FAIR) went on Fox News...
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The past seven days have been quite a ride for Jeb Bush. He began the week by recanting his earlier support for immigration reform with a path to citizenship. That’s because Jeb wrote a book last year when it didn’t seem like a path to citizenship would be the...
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Momentum is building each day for immigration reform, with a full-throated legislative debate set to start in the coming weeks. Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the third in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Each week, a different and diverse...
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The Colorado ASSET legislation – a state tuition bill that will allow young immigrants living in Colorado to pay in-state tuition for college – has just passed a final vote in the Colorado House today with a 40-21 vote margin, its last step before arriving on the desk of...
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It’s been a big week in immigration, with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush first coming out against citizenship in immigration reform legislation–then being forced to walk back to his old, pro-citizenship position. It goes to show how far the debate has come in such a short amount of time,...
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The botched Jeb Bush media tour and related controversy over his immigration positioning dominated this week’s immigration news. But the debate also clarified the fact that a road to earned citizenship is already the mainstream position on immigration reform. As Mayor Julián Castro and Frank Sharry remind us, citizenship...
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Huffington Post (Blog): Immigrants Yearn to Be Americans, Not a Permanent Underclass By Frank Sharry National Journal: What Undocumented Workers Really Want By Fawn Johnson MSNBC: Matt Staver on “The Cycle:” The push for immigration reform is getting some help from an unlikely source San Antonio Express-News: Castro talks...
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