The pro-immigration reform movement has long been familiar with the Tanton network, a body of anti-immigrant organizations (some considered to be hate groups) all founded by a single man—John Tanton. Tanton was associated with white supremacists and eugenicists, corresponding with Ku Klux Klan lawyers and writing screeds like about how a...
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At Talking Points Memo is a list of reasons why immigration reform will pass this year, including the fact that anti-immigrant opponents are more marginalized now than ever. Gang of 8 members John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Jeff Flake met with Congressional Republicans last week to promote the Senate...
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Mar 1, 2013
Roll Call: House Immigration Negotiators Mull Citizenship Compromise By David Harrison Voxxi: Pathway to citizenship: Republicans face ‘balancing act’ By Raisa Camargo Roll Call: House GOP Seeks Immigration Solution By Daniel Newhauser and David M. Drucker ABC/Univision: How the GOP Could Break an Unwritten Rule and Pass Immigration Reform...
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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 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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