Following is an open letter to Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: Josh, I love you, man. I’m a big fan. But I have to take issue with your post from yesterday entitled, “Immigration Reformers, Wake the F’ Up!” Your premise...
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In an interview today with the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) made it clear that his opposition to a path to citizenship extends to DREAMers – young Americans in all but their paperwork. Said Goodlatte: But, even for them, I would say that they get...
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Boehner Better Not Be Relying on This Guy to Get Immigration Reform Done Is Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) trying to blow up immigration reform? Sure looks that way to us. At a town hall held in his Western Virginia district last evening, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)...
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Telling Latino Immigrants to Get to the Back of the Bus Not an Effective Way to Conduct Latino Outreach Last week the Republican National Committee (RNC) passed a new immigration resolution that was intended to reach out to Latino voters. Instead, it showed how much work the GOP still has to...
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Today, the Republican National Committee (RNC) passed a resolution calling on Congress to pass immigration reform this year, but failed to embrace an inclusive path to initial legalization and an achievable path to eventual citizenship. Instead, for the 11 million undocumented immigrants settled in America, the RNC proposes renewable...
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Family Celebrates and Thanks Supporters; Broad Immigration Reform Still Needed Pedro Hernandez-Ramirez–husband, loving father of four, and primary caretaker of his oldest son, Juan, who has cerebral palsy—will imminently be released from Geauga County (OH) Jail after being granted a one year stay of deportation. Pro-reform activists mobilized quickly...
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One Year After DACA–The Biggest Pro-Immigration Policy Change in Decades–Pro-Immigration Movement Continues to Sizzle, While Anti-Immigrant Rallies Fizzle A year after the biggest pro-immigration policy change in decades – the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program for DREAMers (DACA) – went into effect, the immigration reform movement continues to...
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Prosecutorial Discretion Granted, But ICE Refuses to Say When Pedro Hernandez-Ramirez Will Come Home Pedro Hernandez-Ramirez–husband, loving father of four, and primary caretaker of his oldest son, Juan, who has cerebral palsy— has been granted a one year stay of deportation, yet Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is so...
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