Washington, DC – Last week, Mitt Romney offered a fresh reminder that his pandering to the far right on immigration during the primary season will hurt his potential general election chances. In response to a question in Le Mars, IA, Romney pledged that he would veto a federal...
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As the Republican presidential campaign moves into the homestretch before the first caucus and primaries of the 2012 campaign, it's increasingly clear that the candidate field is lacking a true moderate on immigration reform in the style of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. For no discernible political...
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Today, the United States Department of Justice took a strong and welcome step towards ending Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror. In its three year investigation of the Sheriff's policing practices, DOJ found evidence of what we've long known. Arpaio has "engage in a...
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A series of media outlets reported yesterday that a key phrase embedded in Mitt Romney's stump speech and campaign advertisements, "Keep America American," turns out to be a slogan the Ku Klux Klan used in the 1920s to protest the arrival of Irish immigrants. Separate from the specific...
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A series of media outlets reported yesterday that a key phrase embedded in Mitt Romney's stump speech and campaign advertisements, "Keep America American," turns out to be a slogan the Ku Klux Klan used in the 1920s to protest the arrival of Irish immigrants. Separate from the specific...
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Today's launch of the Iowa Compact charts a sensible course on immigration policy – a welcome contrast to the "papers, please" crackdowns passed in Arizona and Alabama, and the rhetoric dominating this issue among GOP 2012 presidential contenders. According to a raft of new polling, the sentiment behind...
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Today's launch of the Iowa Compact charts a sensible course on immigration policy – a welcome contrast to the "papers, please" crackdowns passed in Arizona and Alabama, and the rhetoric dominating this issue among GOP 2012 presidential contenders. According to a raft of new polling, the sentiment behind...
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The Supreme Court yesterday decided to review the federal government's challenge to Arizona's restrictive immigration law, SB 1070. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice Education Fund: "We fully expect the Supreme Court to uphold the U.S. Constitution and long-standing court rulings which have held that immigration...
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