At their party convention this weekend, Texas Republicans embraced a hard-line anti-immigration stance by calling for an Arizona-like anti-immigrant law, endorsing a mass-deportation policy, and pledging support for a repeal of the birthright citizenship component of the 14th Amendment. Unfortunately for Texas Republicans, the state's changing demographics ensures...
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Washington, DC – America's Voice has prepared detailed backgrounders on the California gubernatorial race, the California Senate race, and the Nevada Senate race. The reports document the crucial role Latino voters will play in deciding the outcomes, the importance of immigration in influencing Latino voting behavior.
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Jun 8, 2010
As mid-term season heats up, how big an issue is immigration for Latino voters? Some Republicans try to deny immigration is much of a factor, and some Democrats suspect that activists exaggerate the effect. A look at recent polling suggests that the skeptics are wrong.
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The news of President Obama's upcoming meeting on Thursday with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) offers an opportunity for President Obama to take back control of the immigration debate. Following are three important points for President Obama to remember as he prepares for the meeting.
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In a triumph of political posturing over problem-solving, Republican politicians continue to rally behind the Arizona anti-immigrant law and put forth more-of the-same "border security first" amendments in Washington. Meanwhile, leading police chiefs from major cities in Arizona and across the United States gathered in Washington yesterday to...
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Senators Reid, Schumer, Durbin, and Menendez deserve major kudos for standing up to the partisan posturing and political gamesmanship of Senators Cornyn, McCain and Kyl – and defeating them.
The Republicans proposed "border security first" amendments aimed at trying to make themselves look "tough" and Democrats look "soft." But...
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Republican Senators are busy offering a number of border-related amendments today to the emergency supplemental appropriations bill for new jobs, disaster relief and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing their recent steadfast advocacy of the immigration status quo. Instead of proposing steps toward a lasting fix of...
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President Obama went into the Lion's Den today and challenged Republicans to work with him on comprehensive immigration reform. So far, so good. But he left the Lion's Den having given into the key GOP demand of "border security first" without getting anything in return. Say...
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