With both the U.S. House and the Senate leadership pledging to push the DREAM Act in the lame-duck session and perhaps as soon as this week, Latino leaders and community organizers say the people they sent to Washington two years ago have about two more weeks to prove they...
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The White House and congressional Democrats are pushing to bring to a vote a bill that creates a path to legal status for young illegal immigrants...Senior Obama administration officials say Congress should take the opportunity to pass the bill, which was written by members of both parties, to demonstrate...
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Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Rep. Nydia Velasquez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) will meet with President Barack Obama Tuesday afternoon to talk about the chances of getting comprehensive immigration reform or the DREAM Act passed in the lame duck session, a House Democratic source said.
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A Latino Republican who is leaving Congress is urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to schedule a vote on a bill that would open a path to citizenship for thousands of students who are illegal immigrants.
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Tonight, at 10:00 pm EST, Lawrence O'Donnell will host an MSNBC Special Town Hall Event on "Immigration and Latino America" with the Executive Director of Voto Latino, Maria Teresa Kumar.
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Compared with the 9 percent of eligible voters who are Latino, Karen Narasaki estimated the Asian vote represents about 5 percent of eligible voters. "That '5 percent nationally' gets lost because we're heavily concentrated on the West Coast, New York, and in California, which has the largest Asian population."
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Nov 11, 2010
A failure to reform the nation's immigration laws is the result of an electoral process that forces the parties to seek ideologically pure candidates, former President George W. Bush said in his new memoir.
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A majority of voters support comprehensive immigration reform that includes legalization measures as well as border security, according to a poll released today.
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While much post-election analysis has highlighted how Latino voters were mobilized by the immigration debate and helped Democrats retain the Senate, new polling released today from Lake Research Partners on behalf of America's Voice focus on the views of all voters toward immigration policy.
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Here's an important release from today's media call, organized by Reform Immigration FOR America, in which a bipartisan coalition came together to tell Congress to deliver on real immigration reform like the common-sense DREAM Act, which would allow immigrant youth to obtain citizenship through two years of college or...
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