It’s increasingly clear that various legal challenges to President Obama’s executive actions on immigration are more about politics and generating headlines than actual constitutional considerations. Yesterday, Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia heard the first legal challenge directly about the constitutionality of...
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawsuit against President Obama’s executive action received a court hearing in Washington, DC yesterday — and all accounts are reporting that the judge, Beryl Howell of the US District Court in Washington, did not seem impressed. As the Washington Post and Politico wrote of the judge’s questioning of...
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New Website Captures Humanity of Administrative Action with Videos and Stories from Families Who Benefit and Conviction of Those Still Fighting for Relief Denver, CO – As families across the country gather this week to celebrate the holidays, millions more will be able to celebrate with the security that...
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In contrast to some who claim that executive action is actually hurting Obama and the Democrats among Latinos, this week’s WSJ/NBC/Telemundo poll reflects others in finding the opposite. Latino support for Obama has spiked since executive action, which is going to mean trouble for Latinos in 2016 and beyond. Here are the...
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This week, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that executive action is unconstitutional. As legal experts and opinion makers have already pointed out, there are quite a number of things wrong with this decision: there was absolutely no reason to use this case to hand down such a ruling,...
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We know that Sheriff Joe Arpaio is capable of being motivated by spite. In 2009, Arpaio gloated that “after they went after me, we arrested 500 more just for spite.” When he was asked about it in 2012, Arpaio only doubled down: “It was wrong,” he said. “It wasn’t 500. It was...
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New UWD Video a Reminder that Dreamers Prepared to Hold GOP Accountable, Demand Specific Answers on Essential Immigration Questions A must-watch video from United We Dream (UWD) features Dreamers asking Senate Republicans a simple question – “Do you want to deport my parents?” The video features interactions between UWD...
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Wisconsin is one of the 24 states currently suing President Obama over executive action, despite the fact that the Badger State stands to gain $19 million over 5 years from increased tax revenue as a result of executive action. Today, five-term Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) published a letter to Wisconsin’s Attorney General...
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Family of 7 Awaits Decision in Local Test Case for Roll Out of Obama’s Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) Program Jose Luis has lived in the US for almost 20 years and is the happily married father of 4 US citizen children (Ages 16, 13, 8, and 2)...
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Yesterday brought the news that Arthur Schwab, a federal judge in Pennsylvania, ruled that President Obama’s executive action for immigrants is unconstitutional. There’s no injunction — the ruling was completely off the cuff and has no actual consequences on the President’s executive actions. But it’s just a reminder that playing...
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