Cornyn Con

At a community event organized by The Reform Immigration for America and the Center for Community Change this morning, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) announced the way forward for the immigration reform movement. Continue »

Good news: all three wasteful border amendments voted on in the Senate today were defeated, thanks in part to the tens of thousands of emails, phonecalls, and faxes made by concerned constituents. Continue »

La siguiente es la declaración de Frank Sharry, director ejecutivo de America’s Voice, luego de que el Senado rechazara tres enmiendas de “seguridad fronteriza primero” propuestas por los senadores republicanos John Cornyn, de Texas, y  John McCain y Jon Kyl, ambos de Arizona, a un proyecto de asignación de... Continue »

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... Continue »

Good news. All three wasteful border amendments voted on in the Senate today were defeated. Continue »

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... Continue »

Looks like President Obama will be giving Senators John McCain (R-AZ), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) most of what they're asking for: $500 million in new border security funds and 1,200 National Guards deployed to the Southern border. All this, in exchange for… refusing to support comprehensive... Continue »

Today, the Spanish language press reports on various developments within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), after director Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the Senate. The backlash against Arizona over criminalization bill SB 1070 continues to dominate the news cycle, and columnists look at the Republican Party's attitude toward immigration... Continue »

22/09/09 a 9:28am   Obama a los Inmigrantes: Podemos lograr la reforma migratoria Washington, DC – El domingo, en su primera aparición en el programa Al Punto, de Univisión, que conduce el periodista Jorge Ramos, el líder de la minoría republicana de la Cámara Baja, John Boehner, comprobó que cuando... Continue »

Sunday, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) appeared for the very first time on Univision's Al Punto – the Spanish language equivalent of a high-profile appearance on Meet the Press. His interview followed that of President Obama. What did Boehner say? Continue »