A coalition of community and faith-based pro-immigration groups who helped elect President Obama in 2008 will begin a series of town-hall meetings and news conferences Tuesday in California to tell the president that the nations immigration system is "broken" and to remind him of campaign pledges he made to...
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President Obama may be 3,000 miles away from Washington this week, spending today and tomorrow wrapping up a visit to the West Coast, but the topic of immigration has been following him everywhere he goes. One day after he summoned stakeholders to the White House to discuss immigration...
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Our favorite response so far to President Obama's immigration meeting yesterday comes from Daily Kos, where Markos Moulitsas managed to sum up yesterday's meeting -- and Obama's presidency on immigration, so far.
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Last night, President Obama hosted a private meeting at the White House to discuss eventual immigration reform and the strategy needed to get there. Among the attendees were former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and AV's own Executive Director Frank Sharry.
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President Barack Obama revisited a key campaign promise when he hosted a White House meeting of elected officials and experts on immigration. But if a major overhaul of the nation's immigration policy is his goal, Republicans in Congress say he shouldn't hold his breath.
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This was an important meeting for a number of reasons. First, the President made it clear he is willing to use whatever political capital he has to make the case for immigration reform that can fix our nation's dysfunctional immigration system in a way that ends illegal immigration....
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President Obama convened a diverse group of stakeholders from across the political spectrum. The meeting focused on how to engage the American people in a discussion that would create momentum towards the enactment of immigration reform. America's Voice's Executive Director Frank Sharry attended the meeting and provided...
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President Barack Obama has marshaled the likes of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the mayors of New York and San Antonio and Philadelphia's police commissioner in an attempt to show wide and varied support for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.
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Despite opposition from the business, faith and education communities, the Georgia legislature just passed an Arizona-like anti-immigration bill, and Governor Nathan Deal said that he plans to sign it. According to Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, the bill will "create an...
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U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez told a group of Immigration reform supporters on Saturday he's not sure he could back President Barack Obama in 2012 if he doesn't step up efforts to change deportation policy and education opportunities for illegal students.
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