By Yoli Navas: Every day, families are being torn apart by the deportation of undocumented parents of US-citizen children. Human Impact Partners estimates that in the past year anywhere between 60,000 and 150,000 children have been separated from either one parent or both by the nation’s “heartless detain-and-deport immigration...
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Bloomberg: Rubio Balancing U.S. Immigration Plan With Fragile Support By Kathleen Hunter The Atlantic: How the GOP Can Screw Up Its 2016 By Garnace Frank-Ruta NBC: Immigration proponents get new data to support reform cause By Carrie Dann and Alexa Dragoumis NBC Latino: Attention Congress: Immigration top Latino voter...
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Update: Right now, Sessions and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) are tag-teaming about the virtue of legal immigrants versus those who are undocumented immigrants. Funny, because earlier this week a Sessions staffer, Danielle Cutrona was on a NumbersUSA call where a speaker came out against LEGAL immigration. It looks like...
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The same day that Karl Rove published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal warning Republicans about the need to better shape Latino perceptions of the GOP, and the same day that John Boehner penned a Spanish-language op-ed in La Opinion entitled “Protecting the American Dream,” almost every House...
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The following is a press release from the Asian American Justice Center, which worked with a coalition of other groups on this week’s National AAPI Day of Action for Immigration Reform: Wednesday, national Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders rallied for the Stand With Families: National AAPI Day of...
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In anticipation of the debate next week on the Senate floor, Latino Decisions and America’s Voice released the latest in a series of polls that underscore the political imperative of passing immigration reform. This latest poll shows that Democrats and Republicans have a lot to gain and a lot...
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As we’ve been writing about, the Republican-led House this morning took a vote on an ugly amendment from Steve King that attacks DREAMers and strips away funding for President Obama’s deferred action for DREAMers (DACA) program. It was mostly a symbolic vote on a provision that will never become...
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Today, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) that attacks DREAMers, young people who have grown up in America and are American in all but paperwork. The amendment to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill would restrict DHS from...
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The following is a press statement from United We DREAM about this morning’s Steve King amendment: With the House of Representatives voting today to pass HR 2217, Rep. Steve King’s amendment to block funding to implement the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, DREAMers are speaking out with...
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Associated Press: Rubio hears out House conservatives on immigration By Erica Werner Los Angeles Times: Senate immigration bill teeters as it tilts rightward By Lisa Moscaro and Brian Bennett NBC Latino: Does Marco Rubio support his own immigration bill? By Sandra Lilley Washington Post (The Fix): Why Marco Rubio...
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