Must-Read New York Times Editorial Captures Current Moment in Immigration Debate In an editorial titled, “The Scrambled States of Immigration,” The New York Times weaves a range of recent developments together into a must-read piece capturing the current moment in the immigration debate. The editorial concludes by reminding us that “laws and policies that deny...
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New Jersey Governor and potential 2016 Republican contender Chris Christie has taken the next step in embracing anti-immigrant politics by signing onto a brief seeking to block immigration executive action programs. As Elise Foley of the Huffington Post reports: “After months of staying out of the legal battle over the president’s...
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In the Huffington Post, Juan Escalante Explains How the GOP’s Obsession with Immigrants is Blocking a Historical Nomination Over the weekend, after months of slow walking, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced plans to delay a vote on Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch even further. Bitter over their failed effort...
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Today, the United States Department of Justice filed an emergency appeal for a stay of Judge Hanen’s preliminary injunction in the case of Texas v. United States. Hanen issued his preliminary injunction on the implementation of expanded DACA and DAPA on February 16, 2015. A link to the DOJ”s...
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Immigration has consistently been a hot-button issue for GOP primary voters, and candidates like Scott Walker are already shifting to hardliners in an attempt capture those votes. One candidate, however, continues to walk a fuzzy line. In Iowa for an agricultural event over the weekend, Jeb Bush told an...
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Yesterday, we were notified about Max in Iowa. Max is a Mennonite pastor who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on March, 3 and is facing deportation. Max is a long-time community member of Iowa City, Iowa and has 4 US Citizen children. Still, ICE arrived without warning at Villatoro’s...
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Republicans Seem Unable to Move on from Anti-Immigrant Obsession This week, as the GOP fueled Department of Homeland Security (DHS) debate careens to a close, the House Judiciary Committee is marking up four immigration enforcement-only bills. After a bruising battle over immigration that brought the nation to the brink of a...
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After weeks of battling the inevitable, House Republicans appear set to finally advance a clean DHS funding bill stripped of immigration riders. This predictable outcome reinforced the fact that immigration is the Republicans’ kryptonite. Instead of helping the GOP, congressional attempts to block and overturn President Obama’s recent executive actions on immigration...
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Cross-posted from Huffington Post: Since Judge Hanen issued his controversial midnight order blocking President Obama’s executive actions on immigration there has been a lot of speculation about what will happen next. Will the Court of Appeals quickly reverse the ruling? How long will it take for the case to...
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Last week, Judge Andrew Hanen granted an injunction against executive action, which temporarily blocked President Obama’s recently-announced DAPA program from moving forward. Today, the Obama Administration announced that it is seeking an emergency stay against that injunction. Judge Hanen himself has 48 hours to rule on the stay request,...
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