Mar 1, 2013
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 second in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Each week, a different and...
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Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO), an emerging leader on immigration reform, has a great op-ed in the Denver Post today illustrating why Colorado–and the rest of the nation–needs immigration reform. Here’s the full text here: Coloradans are making their voices heard: The time has come for comprehensive immigration reform. From business...
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It’s been a busy week in immigration–representatives from border communities came to Washington, DC to let Congressional leaders know that the border is secure, Gang of 8 members Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham had a meeting with President Obama, and a consequence of the sequester led to much...
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Update: Apparently Glenn Beck is taking issue with the Colter character expressing anti-immigrant sentiments that make the Tea Party look bad, even though Colter has only used language that would be right at home on Beck’s radio show or Fox News. As Media Matters wrote last week: Beck targeted the...
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As we’ve written, there is a broad coalition of advocates and leaders from a number of different sectors—faith, law enforcement, labor, business, civil and human rights organizations—joining together to call for immigration reform, and the strength of the movement grows every day. In addition, local activists from different states...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a longtime immigration reform supporter, and one of the Senate Gang of 8 currently considering immigration legislation. He’s been such a leader on the issue that he’s now being targeted by anti-immigrant groups like NumbersUSA, who want to silence his advocacy. Last week, Graham...
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The House Judiciary Committee held two hearings today, on two different topics (agriculture and E-Verify), yet the takeaway was the same: immigration reform must happen as soon as possible, and must include a path to citizenship. During Tuesday’s agriculture hearing, businesses and farmworkers found potential for an agreement on legalization, with...
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Voxxi: As immigration debate rolls on, where is Kris Kobach? By Griselda Nevarez New York Times: White House Says It Was Not Involved in Detainee Release By Kirk Semple CNN: White House was ‘unaware’ of immigration detainee release Huffington Post: Jay Carney: Immigration Agency Made Decision To Release Detainees...
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Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on agricultural labor and a guest-worker program saw anti-immigrant Rep. Steve King (R-IA) getting a little bit of a smackdown when he tried to insist that immigration enforcement has been lax under President Obama–despite reams of evidence that, to the contrary, it’s been ever more draconian....
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As countless reports and briefings by now have noted, the US-Mexico border is more secure than ever. Even though a 2007 immigration reform bill did not pass through Congress and become law, every border security benchmark from that bill has since been met or exceeded. Yet many legislators who...
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