Tonight, President Obama will announce a sweeping executive action that will change life for millions of immigrant families. While advocates are beginning to celebrate, opponents of immigration reform are beginning to lose it completely. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) likened Obama’s executive action to the Japanese internment camp order (and was slammed...
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Progressive advocacy groups representing millions of Americans are delivering more than 260,000 petitions to the White House today urging the president to take bold executive action to offer relief to aspiring Americans. The groups are urging the president to keep his promise and use his legal authority to take...
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Cross-posted from Latino Decisions In January 2013, President Obama chose Del Sol High School in Las Vegas to make his remarks outlining his administration’s comprehensive immigration reform principles. Part victory rally, part policy speech, the event was a clear thank-you to the state’s Latino and organized-labor communities for their...
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Watch below as former RNC Chair Michael Steele tells Republicans to “get a grip” on immigration. “You’re sounding tone-deaf,” he counsels them, before advising them to pass the Senate immigration bill as a response to Obama’s executive action plans. “You have the solution in your hand.” (Steele is right: extremist...
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So far, all that we know about this week’s huge executive action news is that President Obama will be making a speech tomorrow night — followed by another speech on Friday. Who exactly the executive action will cover isn’t official yet, though news reports are estimating 4-5 million immigrants....
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On the Senate floor, @SenatorBoxer brought out a chart w/ all the executive actions taken on #immigration since 1956. pic.twitter.com/ImSzyzGdMt — Immigration Policy (@ImmPolicyCenter) November 19, 2014
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As news swirls today about President Obama’s impending executive action — scheduled to be announced tomorrow — Rep. Luis Gutierrez joined immigrant farm, food, and commercial workers from across the country to remind Americans of the people behind our Thanksgiving meals and to call on Obama to deliver the most...
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Over the past 60 years, every President has taken immigration-related executive actions – a total of 39 different occasions. Both Ronald Reagan and President George H. W. Bush took executive action on immigration, with the Bush Administration issuing a Family Fairness policy that allowed 1.5 million spouses and children...
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The kind of executive action on immigration that President Obama is about to take is not new — every single president since at least Eisenhower has unilaterally used his powers in some way to help immigrants. But in a recent floor speech, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) actually went back further —...
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With the debate over immigration executive action in full swing, here are three key points regarding public opinion and the polling instruments used to measure it: 1) If you ask a misleading question, you’ll get an inaccurate response. Polling from USA Today released this week asks, “Should President Obama...
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