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As we’ve written about before, exit polls dramatically misrepresent the Latino vote. We first covered this issue all the way back in 2010, but it was the 2012 cycle where we saw some of the craziest exit poll results we’d ever seen. Here’s what we said about those results back in 2012. Did you...
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Vox: 3 times presidents unilaterally suspended immigration enforcement Politico: Democrats to White House: Immigration’s your call The Hill: GOP lawmaker: Obama ‘absolutely wants to be impeached’ Associated Press: Obama To Interrupt Summer Vacation With Trip Back To D.C. The Hill: Why is Obama returning to Washington? The Hill: Obama...
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Mar 19, 2014
Washington Times: Reince Priebus urges GOP to tone down anti-immigrant rhetoric By Seth McLaughlin Erie Times-News: Ohio Latino group plans Erie rally supporting illegal immigrant Politico: Reince Priebus predicts 2014 GOP ‘tsunami’ By Katie Glueck Los Angeles Times: A year after ‘autopsy,’ GOP still struggles on immigration reform By...
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This week, we’ve written a number of pieces on the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case of anti-immigrant ordinances in Farmers’ Branch, Texas and Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Deprived of further opportunities for appeal, these anti-immigrant laws have effectively reached the end of their journey, after the towns that...
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La medida en cuestión “es una potencial píldora venenosa” que permitiría a los estados seguir los pasos de Arizona cuando adoptó la SB1070 contra los indocumentados, dijo Frank Sharry, director ejecutivo de America´s Voice. “Esperemos que los republicanos no insistan en eso como el precio a pagar por una...
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The consistent daily pressure and moral commitment of the immigration reform movement stands in stark contrast to the inaction and avoidance of Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other Republican leaders in the House. Not only are House leaders refusing to allow a vote on the bipartisan HR 15 bill—despite the...
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Pro-Reform Movement on the March: Will Republicans Get Lifted Up or Left Behind? The immigration movement is mobilizing like never before, demanding policy progress in Washington and throughout the country. In Washington, the political heat is melting some GOP resistance to immigration reform as more Republicans sign onto to...
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The Black American Leadership Alliance’s (BALA) We Are America tour — originally intended by organizers to be a nationwide series of demonstrations against immigration reform — went out with a whimper in Phoenix, Arizona last weekend. Even with a line-up featuring disgraced former Arizona State Senator and SB 1070...
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Jul 30, 2013
Politico: Menu for House GOP: Immigration à la carte By Seung Min Kim Washington Post: A narrow border-security agreement could pave the way for broad immigration reform By Ed O’Keefe National Journal: Inside Boehner’s Strategy to Slow Walk Immigration to the Finish Line By Chris Frates Politico (Playbook): How...
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The House Judiciary Committee is meeting today to markup H.R. 2278, the so-called “SAFE Act,” an extremist anti-immigrant bill which would criminalize all undocumented immigrants. Below is a collection of responses to the bill: Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL): The Arizona SB1070 law was substantially struck down by the Supreme...
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