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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President Obama’s pledge to take executive action on immigration is center stage in post-election Washington. Here are four key points to understand: President Obama has made it clear that he’s going to lean into the issue and not wait yet again for Republicans to act: As we have highlighted, if...
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There’s No More Time to Waste; 11 Million Lives Hang in the Balance With Tuesday’s midterm elections now over, the President must turn back to making progress on policy issues like immigration. Here’s a quick Friday recap of why he must use his existing legal authority to act immediately...
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A new Washington Post editorial counsels President Obama to wait on executive action on immigration. According to the editorial board, while the President is “certainly right on the policy,” and “might be fed up” with waiting on Republicans to act, he should nonetheless “seize the moral high ground and test GOP leaders’ seriousness about cooperating...
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At a press conference at the White House today, a reporter asked President Obama if taking executive action on immigration would hurt the chances for passing immigration reform legislation in a Republican-controlled Congress. While acknowledging that immigration reform through legislation is the preferred solution, the President made it clear...
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Washington, DC – America’s Voice is a sponsoring organization of the Latino Decisions’ Latino voter Election Eve poll. The third installment of data on Latino voters’ candidate and policy preferences will be released today at a 12:30 Eastern event at the National Press Club (with livestream and remote access available here). For...
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Key Results Now Available for Huge Latino Voter Poll Nationwide and in 10 States An election eve poll of nearly 5,000 Latino voters nationwide and in key 2014 states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas) provides new insights into Latino voter behavior in...
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Establishment Republicans Engage in Happy Talk While Hardliners Dominate As the country contemplates a Congress controlled by the GOP, there is some talk – from the likes of Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Former Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Preibus – that the...
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