The Obama Administration's announcement that it will bring its deportation practices in line with common sense law enforcement priorities has generated the predictable outcry from mass-deportation advocates, who incorrectly have characterized the sensible policy announcement as a "backdoor amnesty."
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As the Republican presidential primary battle starts to heat up, two recent articles analyze the Party's positioning on immigration reform and standing with Latino voters. Border Security First – the "Usual Republican Crutch" on Immigration: A new Washington Post editorial notes that Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) is just the...
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Local and national immigration experts spoke on a call with reporters to relate stories and highlight concerns that Secure Communities and other police-immigration collaboration efforts are destroying the relationship between police and immigrants and making communities across the country less safe. The federal Secure Communities (S-Comm) program has...
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The Obama Administration's announcement that it will bring its deportation practices in line with common sense law enforcement priorities has generated overwhelmingly positive reactions from editorial boards across the nation. They are lauding this step as sensible, humane, and smart law enforcement policy—and reminding Congress that it needs...
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Florida's freshman Senator Marco Rubio (R) is scheduled to give a speech at the Ronald Reagan Library tonight. As the Miami Herald notes, "two weeks after Rubio speaks at the Reagan library, it will play host to a Republican presidential debate. It begs the question of whether...
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Yesterday's announcement of the Obama Administration's important step towards bringing deportation practices in line with its enforcement priorities already is generating predictable responses from many Republicans and their mass-deportation allies. Typical of the reaction was the statement from Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ), who noted, "This plan amounts to...
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Yesterday's announcement of the Obama Administration's important step towards bringing deportation practices in line with its enforcement priorities already is generating predictable responses from many Republicans and their mass-deportation allies. Typical of the reaction was the statement from Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ), who noted, "This plan amounts to...
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Below is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice Education Fund, on today's announcement from the Obama Administration about bringing deportation practices in line with enforcement priorities.
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Criticism of the Obama Administration's Secure Communities deportation program has reached a new apex, as elected officials and law enforcement leaders offer serious rebukes of the program and immigrant communities and newspaper editorial boards call for it to be scrapped altogether. Among the recent developments...
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Just as they have in past election cycles, Republican presidential candidates are struggling with the issue of immigration. Judging from early lessons from the burgeoning 2012 race, the Republicans' strategy appears to be: stick to their border security sound bites and avoid the other immigration issues at all...
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