This week, top-rated Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos (who, in terms of influence, has been compared to both Walter Cronkite and the Pope) is throwing his considerable influence behind immigration reform and pressuring House Republicans to get the issue done. On Monday, he published a bilingual op-ed called “Republicans...
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Washington Post (Blog): Defining citizenship down By Greg Sargent The Atlantic: The Immigration Fight Is the Battle for the Soul of the GOP By Molly Ball Daily Kos: The GOP can’t hide from immigration reform By Markos Daily Kos: Marco Rubio silent on immigration By Jed Lewison How Can...
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Jeff Sessions did it again! Even though the Senate immigration bill passed last month in a 68-32 bipartisan vote, Sen. Jeff Sessions still LOVES slamming the bill as a 1000-page deadweight supported only by special interests. “We’ve heard from a lot of different special interest groups about what an...
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Tonight, Rep. Mark Takano (of let’s-grade-some-Republicans fame) will hold a YouTube Town Hall on immigration reform with our own Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice. The event is tonight, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. The broadcast starts live at 7 PM PT, 10 PM ET. Watch the video below:...
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In this week’s edition of how just about everyone supports immigration reform, political polar opposites Grover Norquist and Rahm Emanuel appeared at an Atlantic event where they both agreed that House Republicans will eventually get behind immigration reform. “There will be a strong Republican vote for this,” Norquist, who makes...
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Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen several Wisconsin Republicans step up on the issue of citizenship for the undocumented. Governor Scott Walker supports citizenship. Rep. Paul Ryan is supportive and taking a leading role on immigration in the House. And the American people, including most Republicans, support citizenship....
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Press-Enterprise: Mark Takano holds YouTube town hall By David Olson New York Times: Legal Immigrants Seek Reward for Years of Following the Rules By Julia Preston BuzzFeed: Immigration Hardliner In Congress Quietly Pulls YouTube Videos By Andrew Kaczynski Real Clear Politics: Tom Cotton a Key House Voice on Immigration...
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The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent published an interview today with Jorge Ramos. If we worked for Speaker John Boehner, we’d make sure he sees this one. Ramos is pretty clear about Boehner’s role in immigration reform – and that Hispanic media is watching him – closely. Greg’s post is worth...
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George Zornick at The Nation spent some time today at the Tanton Network’s anti-immigrant event today: If there’s one media failing in the immigration debate, it is that many mainstream reporters hedge around the fact that at least some conservative opposition to the bill is based in cultural and even racial...
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And that, folks, is why you also buy related websites when purchasing vanity URLs. The Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA) march against immigration reform–a product of the Tanton Network–was held on the Capitol lawn this morning, featuring a few hundred mostly-white Tea Partiers rallying against “amnesty” and “illegals.” Many of the...
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