As the House Immigration Subcommittee hearing, "Holiday on ICE," gets underway, a press call today highlighted egregious and systemic problems inside our nation's civil immigration detention facilities and questioned why House Republicans are making light of such serious issues and the need for reform. On today's call, Immigration...
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Earlier this week, The Hill newspaper reported that Senate Republicans, led by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), are pursuing an alternative, stripped down version of the DREAM Act in an attempt to improve the Party's standing with Latino voters. Among the likely provisions in the Republicans' version is a...
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Today at 1:30, the U.S. House Immigration Subcommittee will renew its attack on immigrants with a hearing to "examine" the Obama Administration's updated Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS).
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A range of Southern states continue to advance legislation putting Mitt Romney's "self-deportation" theory into devastating practice. A concept originally envisioned by Romney advisor Kris Kobach and facilitated by the hyper-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the "self-deportation" theory holds, improbably, that if you make life so intolerable...
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Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to balance a range of factors, both positive and negative, in determining whether an individual would be entered into deportation proceedings or not. However,...
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This morning, despite pleas from his wife, children and dozens of community members from Manitowoc, WI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported Jaime Martinez Espinal, leaving his US citizen wife, Jennifer, and their four children, in a state of financial and emotional ruin. Mr. Martinez's case is...
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Instead of working to pass comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans in Congress are pushing for the expulsion of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. Their plan, called "attrition through enforcement," is to ramp up deportations and make life in the U.S. so degrading and unbearable that the...
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Mar 22, 2012
When Mitt Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom's made his "Etch-a-Sketch" comments to CNN yesterday he revealed that the campaign planned "to hit a reset button for the fall campaign." Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post helpfully weighed in with the suggestion Romney start his move back to the center...
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A detailed analysis of the 2012 electoral map by Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos shows that Mitt Romney's problem with Latino voters could be decisive in the November elections. The analysis relies on recent polling, information about Latino voter turnout, and examinations of 2012 battleground states to highlight the...
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The news that former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) has endorsed Mitt Romney for president is a missed opportunity to shift the Republican Party's direction on immigration. Before Florida's primary earlier this year, Bush cautioned the Republican field about its continued mishandling of the immigration issue, noting, "That could be...
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