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 SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL) “All our staff has been working for days trying to decipher this gobbledygook. And I’m told that you read it two, three times, and you get a different insight each time you read it.” – Senator Sessions about Gang of 8 Immigration Bill, Senate Judiciary... Continue »

There’s the Senate “Gang of Hate“—and there’s their “brain trust” (or what we like to call their “drain trust”).  These are the guys that supply them with so many of their ideas about immigrants and the restrictionist fantasy knowns as “self-deportation.”  Meet some of the anti-immigrant nativists who are... Continue »

Cross-posted at Left in Alabama: Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected Alabama’s appeal to consider the state’s 2011 “show me your papers” anti-immigration law, formally known as HB 56.  As a refresher, Alabama’s anti-immigrant law made international news for its Draconian “self-deportation” provisions, including targeting the... Continue »

New York Times: Immigration Splits Senator From Mentor By Ashley Parker USA Today: Tech companies driving the lobbying on immigration By Fredreka Schouten and Alan Gomez Laws.com: America’s Voice Education Fund and the Debate on Immigration Reform Voxxi: Deferred action: 99.5 percent of requests approved? USCIS refutes claim By... Continue »

Today, former Congressman Jim Kolbe gave powerful testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee about the need to make sure the immigration reform legislation includes all families, including his own. The “Gang of Eight” bill did not include the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), which has the support of America’s... Continue »

Edit: Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies testified today as well.  That makes THREE CIS-related witnesses, and two other Tanton-network witnesses, for a total of five. Today’s Senate Judiciary committee hearing on immigration and the bill released last week will be a jam-packed event, featuring four panels filled... Continue »

At the end of this week’s back-t0-back oral arguments at the Supreme Court against Prop 8 and DOMA, we wanted to lift up this piece by Immigration Impact highlighting the fact that the outcome of these cases will affect the immigration world, as well.  From same-sex bi-national couples to how gay... Continue »

In today’s news, Sens. John McCain, Jeff Flake, Chuck Schumer, and Michael Bennet are scheduled to tour the border; the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for DOMA, which has significant implications for bi-national same-sex couples and immigration equality; and President Obama is scheduled to sit down for an... Continue »

The big story on this weekend’s Washington Post Outlook is a 2000-word piece by our Executive Director, Frank Sharry, on how our side built an immigrant rights movement.  What’s the secret?  We learned from gay rights advocates–and went LGBT on their a–.  That meant mobilizing voters, challenging our friends... Continue »

Oh, boy. Writing from his perch at National Review, Mark Krikorian, the Executive Director of the anti-immigrant “think tank” Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), is having a bit of a melt-down. He’s accusing everyone on all sides of the political spectrum of ganging up on him and his fellow... Continue »