Republicans Can’t Get Over Obsession with Deporting DREAMers and their Families Today, for the second time in two days, Senate Republicans failed to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that also guts President Obama’s executive actions, ends the DACA program for DREAMers, and maximizes...
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The Republicans, it seems, are determined to drive their respectability and electability into the ground. Twice now this week, they have pushed for votes on the DHS funding bill passed by the House, which unfortunately contains riders that would end DACA and DAPA — maximizing the deportations of DREAMers...
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Did you miss the Republican drama on the Senate floor yesterday? No worries — we have you covered. Yesterday, the Senate voted to reject the DHS funding bill that passed the Republican-controlled House. But the vote wasn’t just about funding DHS. The focus of the bill was on a measure to...
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What IS it with conservatives, immigrants, and disease? Republicans have previously fearmongered about and/or blamed immigrants for ebola, swine flu, and enterovirus — despite zero evidence for any of the above. Just today, Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage claimed that undocumented immigrants bring hepatitis and HIV to the United States. And then there’s...
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Supposedly, insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” but Senate Republicans are poised to pursue just that after yesterday’s failed vote seeking to kill DACA/DAPA. Today, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to move to reconsider yesterday’s vote — and tomorrow, there...
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CNN: Democrats block funding for DHS to protect Obama immigration orders By Ted Barrett Fusion: Forget Congress. The real threat to Obama’s immigration program is in a Texas court By Jordan Fabian and Ted Hesson The Hill: Tom Ridge endorses Jeb Bush for president By Peter Sullivan Talking Points...
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Do They Really Want to Keep Having the Same Fight Every Few Months? Today, Senate Republicans failed to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that would overturn last November’s executive actions, end the DACA program for DREAMers and maximize deportations of undocumented immigrants...
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Earlier this month, House Republicans made funding for the Department of Homeland Security contingent on overturning DACA and DAPA — and now they’re waiting for Senate Republicans to do the same. More than half a million DACA-mented young people in the last two years have flourished as a result...
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Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Arizona will be one of the witnesses testifying at today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the “Adequacy and Enforcement of Our Nation’s Immigration Laws.” Yesterday we wrote about Babeu’s past with the undocumented lover he threatened, his connection to the John Tanton network,...
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CNN: Homeland Security bill faces key vote on Tuesday By Ted Barrett Bloomberg: Iowa Poll: Jeb Bush Has a Big Problem By John McCormick Politico: Barack Obama: DHS impasse could mean ‘end of a paycheck’ for thousands By Seung Min Kim Wall Street Journal: Obama Immigration Budget Underscores Deep...
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