Mark Krikorian, leader of the anti-immigrant “think tank” Center for Immigration Studies, once whitesplained Sonia Sotomayor‘s name and claimed that the reason why Haiti is so screwed up is because it wasn’t “colonized long enough.” Yet despite this — and despite his ties to white nationalists — Republican members of Congress continue...
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Last week, Judge Andrew Hanen of Brownsville, Texas handed down a setback for executive action when he claimed that the Obama Administration had improperly followed procedure in announcing the program. As we and others have reported, Hanen is hardly nonpartisan — he has a long history of taking anti-immigrant positions...
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Today, People For the American Way, America’s Voice, and ColorOfChange.org released an open letter to Republican presidential candidates urging them to make clear that they don’t support CPAC’s ongoing relationship with ProEnglish, a group led by white nationalist Bob Vandervoot. Despite CPAC’s troubling history of welcoming white nationalists as...
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With the clock running out on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding, and pundits looking to see if Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) can work themselves out of the corner they painted themselves into, our take is that they are not really the members...
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Jorge Ramos of Univision and La Opinion Make it Clear Who’s to Blame While the next steps of the judicial and legislative battle over the new immigration policies initiated by executive action are less than clear, what is already certain is that Spanish language media reaction is so strong...
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First, a number of outlets are pointing out how biased this week’s ruling was. As Think Progress writes, the question now is whether Hanen’s ruling can be sustained by higher courts that may not be as biased as he is: Judge Andrew Hanen is a George W. Bush appointee whose past...
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As we noted earlier, we are confident that Judge Andrew Hanen’s temporary injunction blocking immigration executive action programs from going into effect will not stand. As it moves up the judicial ladder, serious jurists will apply the law, decide that it is well within established legal authority and historical...
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In a stunning and blatantly political move, a federal judge in Brownsville, Texas has put a temporary halt on immigration registration plans from the Obama Administration. Late last year, the State of Ohio joined Texas and many other Republican-led states in suing the federal government to block expansion of the...
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Judge’s Politicized and Poorly-Argued Decision Will Be Overturned The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the temporary injunction against DACA and DAPA issued by Judge Andrew Hanen last night: Judge Hanen’s ruling is a setback that was expected and will be...
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White House Press Secretary: The Supreme Court and Congress have made clear that the federal government can set priorities in enforcing our immigration laws—which is exactly what the President did when he announced commonsense policies to help fix our broken immigration system. Those policies are consistent with the laws...
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