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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New bipartisan polling on immigration released today shows that Americans of all political persuasions -- including those who favor the new Arizona immigration law -- strongly favor national action on immigration reform and overwhelmingly support comprehensive immigration reform. The research, conducted by Democratic polling firm Lake Research Partners and...
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Yesterday's heartbreaking conversation between a second-grade student and First Lady Michelle Obama highlighted the fear and deportation rampant under the broken immigration system. The conversation also drew attention to an underreported fact – that the Obama administration is deporting more immigrants than the Bush administration.
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Today President Obama and President Calderon of Mexico held a press conference in the Rose Garden. They both spoke about the need for immigration reform and about concerns about the new anti-immigrant law in Arizona. Important but not especially newsworthy.
Meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama and Mexico's First...
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