With the details of the president’s immigration executive action now public, Frank Sharry of America’s Voice shares his reflections: This is the biggest victory for immigrants and their allies in the past 25 years. We rejoice with the millions who can come forward, get a work permit and live...
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Real Issue Remains: GOP Has No Plan to Solve the Problem of 11 Million Undocumented People Despite partisan handwringing and Republicans’ overheated rhetoric, President Obama’s impending immigration announcement is a sensible application of the chief executive’s inherent authority on immigration. The legal case is clear and, in fact, every...
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Tonight, President Obama will announce a sweeping executive action that will change life for millions of immigrant families. While advocates are beginning to celebrate, opponents of immigration reform are beginning to lose it completely. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) likened Obama’s executive action to the Japanese internment camp order (and was slammed...
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Over the past 60 years, every President has taken immigration-related executive actions – a total of 39 different occasions. Both Ronald Reagan and President George H. W. Bush took executive action on immigration, with the Bush Administration issuing a Family Fairness policy that allowed 1.5 million spouses and children...
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With the debate over immigration executive action in full swing, here are three key points regarding public opinion and the polling instruments used to measure it: 1) If you ask a misleading question, you’ll get an inaccurate response. Polling from USA Today released this week asks, “Should President Obama...
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Despite the threats and overheated claims by Republicans, executive action on immigration would be a good thing for the country. Below, America’s Voice offers six reasons why President Obama should follow through on his pledge and deliver: 1. Someone needs to do something productive on immigration. Since Republicans have...
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As we wait for President Obama to announce his plans for executive action on immigration, anti-immigrant Republicans are in full battle mode. They are spitting out talking points designed to undermine the President — without taking any responsibility for their own failures on the issue. Some pundits still seem...
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Immigration news took over front pages nationwide this week with reports that Obama’s much-anticipated executive action for immigrants is coming — and soon. Republicans kicked into high gear, with all sorts of colorful and fiery metaphors, about their intentions to battle Obama. But as leading editorial boards and other pundits are...
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America’s Voice has put together a new post-election memo that identifies three takeaways and one lesson for both parties to learn as they turn to the future: TAKEAWAY ONE: The Democrats’ gamble to not take action on immigration failed, costing them in voter enthusiasm. TAKEAWAY TWO: Republicans would be wrong...
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November 12, 2014 2014 was a wave election, but it wasn’t a referendum on immigration. Here are three takeaways and one lesson...
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