Por Maribel Hastings, asesora ejecutiva de America’s Voice: WASHINGTON, DC – La metida de pata del congresista republicano de Alaska, Don Young, quien se refirió a los trabajadores agrícolas como “espaldas mojadas”, culminó no sólo en unas de las disculpas más prontas de los últimos tiempos sino en una...
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You can’t make this stuff up. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has been living in his anti-immigrant bubble for so long, he has no idea how much the world has changed. Further proof was provided today. On the very day that the Republican National Committee tried to distance itself from...
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As we’ve mentioned many, many times, there’s growing momentum for real immigration reform. Over the past couple days, we’ve added some new allies from the environmental community. Yesterday, writing in the Los Angeles Times, Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org and one of the leading voices in the environmental...
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Editor’s note: Maribel Hasting’s analysis of the key players in the immigration debate was originally published in Spanish at Univision. Below is an excerpt. Washington, DC – As Congress gets ready to debate immigration reform bills, the players that are part of the discussion are as diverse as their...
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Por Maribel Hastings, asesora ejecutiva de America’s Voice: WASHINGTON, DC – Mientras el Congreso se apresta a debatir proyectos de reforma migratoria amplia, los personajes de esta discusión son tan diversos como sus intereses. En pasados debates esa diversidad de intereses y de opiniones confabuló con los malos vientos...
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The past seven days have been quite a ride for Jeb Bush. He began the week by recanting his earlier support for immigration reform with a path to citizenship. That’s because Jeb wrote a book last year when it didn’t seem like a path to citizenship would be the...
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Editor’s note: This column by Maribel Hastings was originally published in Spanish at La Opinion and Huffington Post Voces. The Spanish language version can be viewed here. WASHINGTON, DC – In an interview on NBC’s Today Show Monday, former Florida governor Jeb Bush said it’s premature to declare whether he’ll...
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Mar 5, 2013
Por Maribel Hastings, asesora ejecutiva de America’s Voice: WASHINGTON, DC – En una entrevista en el Today Show de la cadena NBC, el ex gobernador de Florida, Jeb Bush, dijo que es prematuro declarar si aspirará o no a la nominación presidencial republicana en 2016, pero parece que no...
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Por Maribel Hastings, asesora ejecutiva de America’s Voice: WASHINGTON, DC – La pasada semana el senador republicano de Arizona, John McCain, enfrentó a la dura derecha en una asamblea pública donde los antiinmigrantes fueron el plato fuerte reclamándole su renovado apoyo a una reforma migratoria amplia y donde uno...
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Further evidence of the nation’s dysfunctional immigration system was on display this week, when ICE–in anticipation of the upcoming sequester–released several hundred immigrants from their detention facilities. It’s unclear where this policy came from, but immigrants–who have been the focus of decades of political battles–are now being used as...
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