In a New Report, America’s Voice Education Fund Reveals Judge Hanen’s Foray into the World of Immigration Politics and the Disturbing Truth Behind the 25 State Lawsuit Today was the first hearing in the 25 states’ lawsuit against executive action, heard by federal judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, TX. ...
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Recently, Maine’s Governor Paul LePage joined the contingent of conservatives who fear-monger about immigrants and disease, falsely claiming during a state of the State address that migrants bring “hepatitis C, HIV and tuberculosis” to the US (there has been zero evidence of any of the above). Today, the Portland Press Herald has published...
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What IS it with conservatives, immigrants, and disease? Republicans have previously fearmongered about and/or blamed immigrants for ebola, swine flu, and enterovirus — despite zero evidence for any of the above. Just today, Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage claimed that undocumented immigrants bring hepatitis and HIV to the United States. And then there’s...
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Bill Supported by Senator Paul Included Poison Pill Riders to Gut Key Immigration Programs Today, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) sided with anti-immigration restrictionists in his Party by voting to invoke cloture on a House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that includes unnecessary, anti-immigrant riders and plays politics with the operations of this...
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Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Arizona will be one of the witnesses testifying at today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the “Adequacy and Enforcement of Our Nation’s Immigration Laws.” Yesterday we wrote about Babeu’s past with the undocumented lover he threatened, his connection to the John Tanton network,...
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Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-AL) is expected to be selected by his Republican colleagues to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration. He’ll be assisted by Senator David Vitter (R-LA), who’s expected to be selected as “Vice Chair” of the Subcommittee and who has intimate knowledge of the...
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So here’s a dark and not-so-secret truth about the GOP’s anti-immigrant position: they’re not only opposed to undocumented immigration. Frequently, they are also against legal immigrants. Former and probably future presidential candidate Rick Santorum exposed that fact at a Tea Party rally in Florida, in this video captured by American Bridge:...
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House Republican leaders appear to be riding an immigration seesaw. One minute they’re attaching extreme amendments to the DHS appropriations bill to placate the Steve King wing of their conference, the next minute they’re readying a “Plan B” in case those provisions get rejected by the Senate. Here’s POLITICO on...
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Dec 22, 2014
It’s time for our end-of-the-year roundup in anti-immigrant extremism, when we look back at 2014 and review the hateful comments, failed rallies, and false claims that made up the opposition to immigration reform. This year there were many fails: there were at least nine anti-immigrant rallies that flopped or...
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio today is asking a federal judge to suspend President Obama’s executive action until a court ruling can be issued on the constitutionality of the action. In other words, it’s three days before Christmas, and Arpaio is petitioning a federal court for the resumption of deportations that separate families....
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