Two years ago today, the Republican National Committee published a self-flagellating analysis — commonly dubbed by observers as the “GOP’s Autopsy Report” — in response to Mitt Romney’s 2012 landslide electoral defeat. Chief among the report’s come-to-Jesus moments was a formal rebuke of Romney’s failed “self-deportation” platform in favor...
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There they go again. You’d think that with Republicans still licking their wounds after a humiliating defeat in their four month battle to tie immigration action to DHS funding, they’d send their anti-immigrant obsession off on a small vacation. You’d think that, but you’d be wrong. Instead, both chambers...
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There they go again. You’d think that with Republicans still licking their wounds after a humiliating defeat in their internal battle to tie immigration action to DHS funding, they’d send their anti-immigrant obsession off on a small vacation. You’d think that, but you’d be wrong. Instead, both chambers of...
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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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American Children of Immigrants Parents Coming of Age, Ready to Vote for their Families Senator David Vitter continues to push for a vote on his unconstitutional amendment to gut the Constitution’s definition of who is a citizen. His amendment to a human trafficking bill would deny American citizenship to babies born...
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Senator Vitter Proposes Radical Unconstitutional Measure to Redefine Who is a U.S. Citizen Fresh off a bruising and unsuccessful battle over immigration that brought the nation to the brink of a DHS shutdown, you would think that Republicans would be loath to gin up more anti-immigrant legislation that would,...
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The topic at the Ag Summit in Iowa was supposed to be about agricultural policy, but pastor and former Governor Mike Huckabee instead used his time to bash the very people who keep that industry running: immigrants. Kira Lerner and Igor Volsky of ThinkProgress report: At the Iowa Agriculture...
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At the Iowa Agricultural Summit held this past weekend, Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) got most of the attention regarding immigration. He reiterated that undocumented immigrants should be legalized and once again suggested, while dodging direct questions, that he would end the DACA and DAPA immigration executive action programs and pursue...
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Some Republicans are so obsessed with the immigration issue that they just make things up. Steve King is the king of that. But, he’s not alone. On the House floor late last month, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) alleged: “Every day, all along border states, maybe other places, there are...
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The fox is in charge of the immigration hen house — and Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III of Alabama couldn’t be happier. Undoubtedly one of the loudest anti-immigrant voices in the Senate, Sessions now chairs the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, cementing the fact that the new Republican majority...
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