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Daily Beast by Patricia Murphy: With Trouble at Home, Boehner Fights the Right Politico by Seung Min Kim: Nancy Pelosi pushes Obama on deportations The Hill by Mario Trujillo: Pelosi hits Obama on deportations The Hill by Ramsey Cox: Senate confirms new Homeland Security chief Talking Points Memo by... Continue »

NBC Latino: Evangelical pastor continues 40-day immigration fast as House set to leave By Suzanne Gamboa Talk Radio News Service: Children Of Undocumented Immigrants Deliver Letters To Republicans By Marissa Higdon Fox News Latino: With Immigration Reform Clock Having Run Out, Activists Contemplate What’s Next By Elizabeth Llorente Wall... Continue »

Pro-Reform Movement on the March: Will Republicans Get Lifted Up or Left Behind? The immigration movement is mobilizing like never before, demanding policy progress in Washington and throughout the country.  In Washington, the political heat is melting some GOP resistance to immigration reform as more Republicans sign onto to... Continue »

Wall Street Journal: House GOP Puts Immigration on Back Burner By Laura Meckler NBC Latino: Rep. Diaz-Balart: Immigration legislation “more difficult” if not done this year By Sandra Lilley Des Moines Register: What Iowa’s congressmen say about immigration reform New York Times: Bushes Focus on Immigration Debate to Reclaim... Continue »

It’s Time for the House Leadership to Lead, and It’s Time for Goodlatte to Get Out of the Way House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) effectively disqualified himself this week from a leadership role in the upcoming House immigration reform debate.  He made clear that he opposes an... Continue »

By Yoli Navas: “Qué Pasa” is our weekly roundup of  news, opinion, and links from Spanish-Language online news publications: With last week’s passage of S. 744, the Senate bipartisan immigration reform bill, Spanish language media has been focusing on the next step for immigration reform, passing legislation through the House of... Continue »

Update: the DOMA ruling has already had an effect.  From Think Progress: A New York City immigration judge immediately stopped the deportation proceedings of a gay Colombian man who is legally married to an American citizen soon after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) for... Continue »

We’ve been writing about Kris Kobach for a long time.  Kobach is (by day) the Kansas Secretary of State.  But by night (and, apparently, also by day), he’s the architect who wrote the extremely anti-immigrant laws in Arizona and Alabama.  He was Mitt Romney’s immigration adviser and a chief... Continue »

This afternoon, the House Judiciary Committee is continuing their markup of the SAFE Act (known on twitter as #HATEAct), which is already the worst anti-immigrant bill in recent history.  (View the press conference denouncing it here.) Rep. Steve King (R-IA), however, apparently just can’t help himself: King just attempted to... Continue »

The House Judiciary Committee is meeting today to markup H.R. 2278, the so-called “SAFE Act,” an extremist anti-immigrant bill which would criminalize all undocumented immigrants.  Below is a collection of responses to the bill: Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL): The Arizona SB1070 law was substantially struck down by the Supreme... Continue »