The last federal shutdown, in 2013, cost the nation an estimated $24 billion and tanked GOP poll numbers. But some Republicans are apparently hankering for another shutdown in response to President Obama’s executive action, which means they have an incentive to downplay the last one. Check out this recent clip of Rush...
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Must-watch today is this video from United We DREAM, of DREAMers chasing members of Congress around Capitol Hill asking them “do you want to deport me and my parents?” Watch below: The total non-answers the Republicans give (Mike McCaul tells one DREAMer “you didn’t do it the right way” while Raul...
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Recently, the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler wrote a piece for the paper’s “Fact Checker” blog suggesting President Obama’s claim that his executive action on immigration is comparable to the action President George H.W. Bush took is dubious. Mr. Kessler awarded three “Pinocchios” to the claim. In response, NCLR’s Charles Kamasaki,...
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GOP is Now the “‘Get Out’ Party” to Latino, APIA, and Immigrant Voters Today, by a 219-197 margin, House Republicans approved legislation by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) aimed at preventing the new Obama Administration immigration policy from taking effect. In addition to cementing the GOP’s anti-immigrant brand, today’s vote...
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View the America’s Voice statement here. Below, check out what other organizations are saying: Sen. Harry Reid: Instead of voting on the Senate’s bipartisan bill to secure our border and fix our broken immigration system, House Republicans voted once again to deport DREAMers and their families. I will not...
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Below are two key points and insights from recent polling in the wake of President Obama’s executive action on immigration: 1. Most Americans support the substance of President Obama’s new immigration policies and oppose Republican attempts to block or overturn them Public Religion Research Institute: A new...
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This afternoon House Republicans will vote on legislation drafted by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) aimed at preventing executive action on immigration. If enacted into law, the measure would place nearly all 11 million undocumented immigrants in America at risk of deportation. The following is a statement from Frank Sharry,...
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The following is must-watch from Rep. Luis Gutierrez last night: As House Prepares To Attack President, Gutiérrez Discusses “Myth…That The United States Should, Would Or Could Deport 11 Million” Immigrants Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-IL) testified before the House Rules Committee this evening as the Committee debated a bill to...
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Since even before Obama actually announced his executive action for immigrants, Republicans have been claiming that the President is a tyrant who is provoking a constitutional crisis by using his administrative powers — even though every single president since Eisenhower has acted unilaterally for immigration. But a post at by...
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Recently, more than a hundred law professors published a letter emphasizing President Obama’s legal authority to announce executive action, stressing the executive branch’s long history of precedent and explaining the concept of prosecutorial discretion. Today, four of those professors have released another letter saying that it would be legal for...
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