Republicans have a moth-to-flame relationship with Rep. Steve King. Privately they’ll tell you he’s an asshole, but when it comes to votes, there’s no doubt about it, King is running the show. That’s why the least productive, if not counter productive, Congress in history has allowed no votes on immigration reform — but...
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This Isn’t About Obama, This is About You In an attempt to circumvent House Republican leadership, who have refused to advance pro-immigration legislation through regular order, Democrats in the House of Representatives are set to file a discharge petition on HR 15 this week. For House Republicans who claim to be...
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Steve King agreed with Jason Richwine when the latter famously claimed that Hispanics have lower IQs than whites — and apparently, King doesn’t approve of them going to school, either. According to Right Wing Watch, King was on a call-in show with Phyllis Schafly when he started railing about “free...
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Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio, apparently, can’t stop getting into trouble. A long record of misdeeds finally caught up with Arpaio last fall, when US District Judge Murray Snow ordered Arpaio and his Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) to cease enforcement practices that use racial profiling to discriminate against Latinos. To ensure...
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Huffington Post: House Democrats Aim To Push Past GOP On Immigration By Elise Foley NBC News: House Dems Will Try to Force Immigration Vote By Frank Thorp V Politico: House Democrats press for immigration vote By Seung Min Kim CNN: House Democrats to try to force a vote on...
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Every day over 1000 families in America are torn apart by deportation. It’s a sad fact and one that we think needs to change. But last week when we heard that an eight-year-old girl had committed suicide after being deported by Border Patrol, well, it just seemed that things...
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The following is a press release from the #Not1More campaign: Seven undocumented Alabama residents and supporters locked themselves together to block the entrance of the Etowah County Detention Center as part of the national #Not1more campaign demanding that the President use his executive authority to stop deportations. The blockade is currently...
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Since late last year, we’ve been trying to tell the story of Maria Perez and her deported husband, Brigido Acosta-Luis. Last fall, Brigido was deported and forcibly separated from his family after more than a decade of living and working in the country. In the last few months, Maria...
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The Washington Post editorialized about immigration reform this weekend: IN BLOCKING immigration reform in the House of Representatives, Republicans have frozen in place a system that much of the nation, and many in the GOP, regard as an exemplar of American dysfunction. Hence the irony that so many Republicans...
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International Business Times: Immigration Reform Advocates To Obama: What Happened To ‘Year Of Action?’ By Laura Matthews MSNBC: Immigration protests keep pressure on Obama By Rachel Maddow Politico: DHS chief Jeh Johnson to meet with immigration advocates By Seung Min Kim USA Today: Obama ‘humane’ order roils immigration debate By Alan Gomez Bloomberg...
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