One day after Rand Paul’s embrace of immigration reform with citizenship, and two weeks after Jeb Bush’s, it’s become clear that creating a pathway to citizenship is the mainstream position in the immigration debate. If there’s something that should be learned from Bush and Paul’s big news stories on immigration, it’s that citizenship is clearly… Continue »
One day after the RNC report supporting immigration reform, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)–a Tea Party darling, filibuster star, and citizenship supporter–gave a speech supporting immigration legislation. As he said this morning: Prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into becoming and being taxpaying… Continue »
In a stunning rebuke of the anti-immigrant extremists at CPAC, the Republican National Committee today came out in support of comprehensive immigration reform, admitting that the Party’s approach to Latino voters helped doom them in the last election. In an “autopsy” report of the GOP’s problems and the path forward, the RNC writes: As stated… Continue »
After the first day of CPAC yesterday, in which Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) and other conservatives tried to make the case for immigration reform without citizenship, and the latest news that Senate Gang of 8 members are considering passing legislation that weakens family-based visas, Republicans should remember that we need immigration reform that works. That means legislation… Continue »
As CPAC begins in Washington, DC, the Washington Post wonders if the conference is even relevant anymore: Immigration is an issue that will be front and center at CPAC. Organizers, led byAmerican Conservative Union Chairman Al Cardenas , say they are determined to elevate the debate and rescue the right from the nativist voices that have… Continue »
