Republican Senators are busy offering a number of border-related amendments today to the emergency supplemental appropriations bill for new jobs, disaster relief and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing their recent steadfast advocacy of the immigration status quo. Instead of proposing steps toward a lasting fix of...
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President Obama went into the Lion's Den today and challenged Republicans to work with him on comprehensive immigration reform. So far, so good. But he left the Lion's Den having given into the key GOP demand of "border security first" without getting anything in return. Say...
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New bipartisan polling on immigration released today shows that Americans of all political persuasions -- including those who favor the new Arizona immigration law -- strongly favor national action on immigration reform and overwhelmingly support comprehensive immigration reform. The research, conducted by Democratic polling firm Lake Research Partners and...
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Yesterday's heartbreaking conversation between a second-grade student and First Lady Michelle Obama highlighted the fear and deportation rampant under the broken immigration system. The conversation also drew attention to an underreported fact – that the Obama administration is deporting more immigrants than the Bush administration.
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Today President Obama and President Calderon of Mexico held a press conference in the Rose Garden. They both spoke about the need for immigration reform and about concerns about the new anti-immigrant law in Arizona. Important but not especially newsworthy.
Meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama and Mexico's First...
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A series of recent actions by courageous young immigrants has highlighted one of the most egregious parts of our broken immigration system. Under current law, young immigrants who arrive in the U.S. at a young age and grow up as Americans in all but paperwork are denied a...
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May 17, 2010
Most in the GOP just cannot help themselves. They seem determined to drive their Party off a political cliff by supporting the Arizona anti-immigrant law and vacuous, "border security first" positioning at the national level.
This past weekend, Sarah Palin became the latest prominent Republican to both support the...
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May 13, 2010
New polling released by America's Voice in moderate-to-conservative states shows that comprehensive immigration reform remains more popular than enforcement-only alternatives – even after subjecting reform proposals to the toughest "amnesty" attacks. Conducted by Hart Research Associates in AR, CO, MO, and OH, the poll also demonstrates the importance...
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On a telephonic conference call yesterday also featuring Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Evangelical leaders including Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Rev. Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals; Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic...
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Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, whose jurisdiction of Pima County, AZ includes Tucson and 123 miles of border with Mexico, is the latest in a chorus of law enforcement voices to oppose the new Arizona anti-immigrant law and to call for sensible federal immigration reform.
According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of...
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