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Over the past 60 years, every President has taken immigration-related executive actions – a total of 39 different occasions. Both Ronald Reagan and President George H. W. Bush took executive action on immigration, with the Bush Administration issuing a Family Fairness policy that allowed 1.5 million spouses and children...
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Texas’ Rep. Joe Barton (R) today became the latest Republican to suggest that President Obama might be impeached should he take executive action on immigration. Add that to the growing list of Republicans wigging out that Obama might soon do something for immigrants — Ted Cruz wants to block the...
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In the immigration reform world, we know Kris Kobach well. He was Mitt Romney’s immigration advisor and partly responsible for Romney’s ill-fated espousal of self-deportation. He was the architect of incredibly anti-immigrant laws like Arizona’s SB 1070 and Alabama’s HB 56, which punitively targeted and terrorized immigrants before they were largely...
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Sep 16, 2014
Frustration and anger can translate into inaction and paralysis, or they can fuel change. I prefer the second option because if participation of Hispanics in elections were equivalent to our population numbers, we’d be in a very different place, especially if we voted in larger numbers on every level,...
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New Orlando Sentinel Op-Ed from Frank Sharry Makes Case for Big Executive Action Today, in the Orlando Sentinel’s “The Front Burner,” America’s Voice’s Executive Director, Frank Sharry, makes the case for why big executive action from the President that protects millions is good policy, sound legally and highly important...
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The following is a press release from the National Immigration Law Center: NILC and legal scholars discuss President Obama’s options during press briefing President Obama has the legal authority and historical precedent to issue broad administrative relief in the area of immigration, legal scholars and practitioners agreed Wednesday during...
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Earlier today, we highlighted analysisfrom a range of legal experts and observers who have stated that President Obama has broad authority to act on immigration. Subsequently, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post’s “The Plum Line,” published a post entitled “How far can Obama go on deportations?” It features in-depth...
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Jul 14, 2014
Latino Leaders React to Republican Candidate’s Call to Import Arizona-Style Immigration Law in Colorado While the Colorado GOP may have breathed a sigh of relief last month when anti-immigrant firebrand Tom Tancredo lost the gubernatorial primary, now the supposedly-mainstream candidate, Bob Beauprez, is taking up Tancredo’s mantle by aligning...
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Last week, President Obama declared legislative immigration dead and chastised House Republicans for killing it. Since then, a slew of commentators have pointed out what a huge demographic mistake the GOP has made in not passing immigration reform. After all, Republicans are now sure to head into the next...
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This morning, Rep. Luis Gutierrez made headlines from the House floor when he announced the conclusion of the three-month window Republicans had to pass immigration reform. In April, Gutierrez told House Republicans that the next few weeks represented a must-take opportunity for Republicans if they were serious about immigration legislation....
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