Today, Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) sided with anti-immigration restrictionists in his Party by voting to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that includes unnecessary, anti-immigrant riders and plays politics with the operations of this critical department. Instead of calling on his colleagues to responsibly commit the necessary homeland security...
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Republicans Can’t Get Over Obsession with Deporting DREAMers and their Families Today, for the second time in two days, Senate Republicans failed to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that also guts President Obama’s executive actions, ends the DACA program for DREAMers, and maximizes...
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Bill Supported by Senator Gardner Included Poison Pill Riders to Gut Key Immigration Programs Today, Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) sided with anti-immigration restrictionists in his Party by voting to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that includes unnecessary, anti-immigrant riders and plays politics with the operations of this...
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Bill Supported by Senator Paul Included Poison Pill Riders to Gut Key Immigration Programs Today, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) sided with anti-immigration restrictionists in his Party by voting to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that includes unnecessary, anti-immigrant riders and plays politics with the operations of this...
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Do They Really Want to Keep Having the Same Fight Every Few Months? Today, Senate Republicans failed to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that would overturn last November’s executive actions, end the DACA program for DREAMers and maximize deportations of undocumented immigrants...
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“GOP Holds Security Hostage to Immigration” In Congress, Republicans continue to insist that funding for the Department of Homeland Security be held up unless the President and Senate Democrats agree to end deferred action programs that benefit immigrants with deep roots in America. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch...
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Jan 30, 2015
Sen. Durbin, DREAMer, Legal Expert Talk Legislative and Judicial Landscape on Immigration Listen to a recording of today’s call here. On this week’s Office Hours press call, longtime immigration reform champion Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) was...
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All three former Secretaries of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including two Republicans, are calling on Republicans to stop insisting that homeland security funding be tied to the GOP’s ideological battle against the President’s immigration actions. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and...
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