Jul 25, 2014
TIME: Obama Eyes Major Immigration Move Politico: Barack Obama’s immigration rhetoric: Then and now Tampa Bay Times: Sen. Marco Rubio wants to ‘wind down’ program for immigrant youth Wall Street Journal: Where Child Migrant Surge Could Hit Home Wall Street Journal: GOP Governors Knock Obama on Illegal-Immigrant Influx MSNBC:...
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Jul 24, 2014
We’re ready to hold Republicans accountable for killing immigration reform in Congress. Are you? Colorado is a hugely important state as we approach elections this November. The growing immigrant population there is gaining political power and Latino, Asian and immigrant voters could decide the outcome of two key tight...
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Reps. Lloyd Doggett (TX), Juan Vargas (CA), and Zoe Lofgren (CA), all Democrats, took to the House floor this morning for a series of speeches about the children’s crisis at the border and how legal protections for them should not be rolled back. Republicans have now spent weeks arguing...
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Republicans are busy exploiting the unaccompanied child refugee crisis to advance measures that crack down on immigrants and refugees. From blaming Dreamers and DACA to gutting the Child Tax Credit (CTC), Republicans seem determined to follow Rahm Emanuel’s infamous counsel: “you never let a serious crisis go to waste.”...
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New America Media: Border Crisis: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Arizona Republic: House group wants faster deportations, Guard on border New York Times: U.S. Religious Leaders Embrace Cause of Immigrant Children Reuters: Exclusive: Obama sends team to Texas to assess need for National Guard deployment Politico: House GOP...
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We’ve been warning the GOP for years, but they didn’t listen. Today, we are highlighting the GOP’s demographic demise in Colorado with a mock obituary, which will run as an online ad in the Aurora Sentinel. View the ad online here. After the 2012 election, in which Barack Obama...
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The conservative response to the children fleeing violence crisis has been mostly been marked by the Murrieta, CA protest, in which Tea Partiers shouted at frightened children and yelled at them to “go home” — and by Republican members of Congress clamoring to deport the children (and DREAMers along...
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Watch Jorge Ramos’ interview on Bill O’Reilly’s show yesterday, courtesy of Media Matters: O’Reilly, unlike just about everyone else, seems to think that Rick Perry’s political stunt with the National Guard will actually work, because it will “seal the border.” No word from him on how exactly this makes sense...
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Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) just became the latest Republican to call for an end to DACA: McCain on question if DACA needs to end: “It does. We need comprehensive immigration reform.” says DACA just appeased Obama voters — Kate Nocera (@KateNocera) July 22, 2014 It’s not necessarily what McCain...
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The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, with respect to the current Congressional debate regarding Central American children who are seeking safety at our border. As the House Working Group’s recommendations released today make clear, Republicans are hell bent on tying any supplemental...
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