During a press conference today with United We DREAM and other immigration reform leaders, our Executive Director Frank Sharry gave brief remarks on why the immigration movement will not accept half-measures like the KIDS Act. Today, the House Immigration Subcommittee will hear testimony on a bill that could give legal...
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2 PM ET: Immigration Subcommittee Hearing on Illegal Immigrants Brought as Kids Follow: #HJC, #11million Tweets from @americasvoice/advocates Panel 1: The Honorable Mike Coffman (R-CO), United States House of Representatives; The Honorable Jeff Denham (R-CA), United States House of Representatives; The Honorable Cory Gardner (R-CO), United States House of Representatives; and The...
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Bloomberg: Immigrants’ Kids Get Support From Some House Republicans By Roxana Tiron and Kathleen Hunter Politico: Rep. Bob Goodlatte floats pathway to legalization By Seung Min Kim La Opinión (Editorial): Cruel and Indecent Daily Caller: Rand Paul and immigration reform both polling well in New Hampshire By Matt K. Lewis...
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Tomorrow, the House Judiciary Committee meets for a hearing that will discuss the KIDS Act, a DREAM Act-lite proposal that some Republicans are considering taking up instead of immigration reform for the 11 million. As Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) recently said, “We’ve been there, we’ve done that, that’s so yesterday....
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Over the weekend, Dylan Matthews at the Washington Post had a long interview with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), a longtime champion of immigration reform, to talk about how immigration reform will get through Speaker John Boehner and the House GOP. You can read the full interview here—it’s long, but...
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4:05 PM EDIT: We almost missed this one. The “compliments” to immigrants just don’t stop when it comes to Steve King. Here’s another winner from him, according to Alan Colmes: …just a few days earlier, King gave an interview to Newsmax in which he claimed that the vast majority of undocumented...
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Politico: Immigration faces critical weeks By Jake Sherman and Seung Min Kim Voxxi: DREAMers Respond To KIDS Act: ‘We Will Not Stand For This’ By Griselda Nevarez The Morning Plum: John Boehner is the leader of House Republicans. Remember? By Greg Sargent Washington Post: Rep. Luis Gutiérrez explains how...
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In case you missed it, there’s a video you need to watch, first captured by The Nation’s George Zornick earlier this week. It’s created quite a buzz online already with over 45,000 views. On Monday, we wrote about the Tanton Network’s BALA Rally, an ugly attempt to sow division...
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Deep in a Jonathan Strong piece on the upcoming August recess and immigration reform is a quote from Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), a close Boehner ally who says that most Republicans would support a comprehensive (rather than piecemeal) immigration bill–if it has even more border security than the Senate...
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Jorge Ramos has an interview with Steve King this weekend, and solicited questions to ask this morning via Twitter: I have an interview with Rep. Steve King on immigration reform. Any questions? — JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) July 19, 2013 Here’s one: exactly when does Steve King think the US border...
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