Yesterday, Iowa community members and local faith leaders delivered more than 25,000 signatures in support of Pastor Max Villatoro to regional ICE headquarters in Omaha. Pastor Villatoro was arrested by immigration officials in the early morning hours of March 3rd and is now dangerously close to deportation and separation...
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Senator Vitter Proposes Radical Unconstitutional Measure to Redefine Who is a U.S. Citizen Fresh off a bruising and unsuccessful battle over immigration that brought the nation to the brink of a DHS shutdown, you would think that Republicans would be loath to gin up more anti-immigrant legislation that would,...
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Huffington Post: Non-Republicans Welcome (But Not Really) At ‘Bipartisan’ Iowa Event For 2016 Hopefuls By Samantha Lachman AP: Judge orders hearing on allegations in immigration lawsuit New York Times: Judge Blocking Obama on Immigration Has Reputation for Fairness in Texas By Julia Preston Los Angeles Times: Judge’s new order makes it harder for...
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Mar 10, 2015
Steve King: Moocher? In a recent Roll Call piece, Rep. Steve King alleges Speaker John Boehner cancelled his scheduled (and taxpayer-funded) trip abroad in retribution for opposing the DHS bill that eventually passed Congress and avoided a security shutdown: It’s payback, King said, for his opposition to funding the...
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AP: Iowa Community Rallies Around Max Villatoro, A Pastor Facing Deportation To Honduras By Kourtney Liepelt Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Scott Walker earns praise, criticism for flip on immigration reform, ‘amnesty’ By Craig Gilbert Latinos Post: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Doesn’t Believe in Amnesty, Again Backtracks on Immigration Reform Reuters: Texas federal judge leaves...
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In the Wake of Deportation Order, Iowa City Pastor Max Villatoro and Father of Four Receives Outpouring of Public Support After learning that Max Villatoro, a local Mennonite Pastor and father of four U.S. citizen children, was being targeted for deportation, the local Iowa community didn’t hesitate to respond....
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Immigration has consistently been a hot-button issue for GOP primary voters, and candidates like Scott Walker are already shifting to hardliners in an attempt capture those votes. One candidate, however, continues to walk a fuzzy line. In Iowa for an agricultural event over the weekend, Jeb Bush told an...
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The topic at the Ag Summit in Iowa was supposed to be about agricultural policy, but pastor and former Governor Mike Huckabee instead used his time to bash the very people who keep that industry running: immigrants. Kira Lerner and Igor Volsky of ThinkProgress report: At the Iowa Agriculture...
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At the Iowa Agricultural Summit held this past weekend, Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) got most of the attention regarding immigration. He reiterated that undocumented immigrants should be legalized and once again suggested, while dodging direct questions, that he would end the DACA and DAPA immigration executive action programs and pursue...
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Politico: The Iowa Ag Summit: 10 takeaways By James Hohmann AP: Iowa Ag Forum Displays GOP Rift on Immigration Reform NBC News: At Iowa Ag Summit, Immigration Separates Republican Hopefuls By Leigh Ann Caldwell Washington Post: Iowa agriculture summit splits GOP 2016 field on subsidies, immigration By Philip Rucker and Dan Balz Fusion: Jeb...
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