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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Mark “Haiti’s So Screwed Up Because It Wasn’t Colonized Long Enough” Krikorian has done it again. In his latest at National Review, the anti-immigrant director of the nativist Center for Immigration Studies argued that Republicans should reject a long-term budget deal in favor of a weapon against executive action. And fiscal measures...
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On December 10th, a group of sheriffs led by one Sheriff Thomas Hodgson of Bristol County, Massachusetts are planning to meet up in Washington, DC to meet with members of Congress and push them to increase border security. Never mind that the border is already more secure than ever...
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There were some ugly anti-immigrants ads during this campaign season. Latino Rebels compiled eight of the dumbest ads: We take a moment to let everyone know that people spend real time and money to produce these political videos. You know, because… those “illegals.” Some of the ads were produced...
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Last night, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes did a segment on New Hampshire GOP Senate Candidate Scott Brown’s obsession with the border, noting we’ve seen this anti-immigrant strategy before: Mitt Romney, 2012. At a debate last night, Brown and his Democratic opponent, Senator Jean Shaheen, “discussed” immigration and the border: In...
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Yesterday, America’s Voice released polling from Latino Decisions on “the politics of immigration are influencing Latinos’ perceptions of both parties and potential presidential contenders heading into 2016 and beyond.” Among the key finding: Republicans are Facing Major 2016 Problem: Fifty-five percent of Latinos said that they’d vote for the...
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Republicans running for Senate this year — Tom Cotton, Thom Tillis, but especially Scott Brown — have been running fear-mongering campaigns so egregious that they have become borderline farcical. As Greg Sargent highlights today at the Washington Post, Scott Brown has managed to twist the specters of ebola, ISIS, and...
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The Department of Homeland Security has definitively said that “the suggestion that individuals who have ties to ISIL have been apprehended at the Southwest border is categorically false, and not supported by any credible intelligence or the facts on the ground,” but it’s election season, which means that GOP...
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Today, the anti-immigrant group Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) is making headlines with its new TV ads, which are airing on national cable TV networks and running for several weeks. CAPS’ premise is that immigration reform is bad for the US economy and American workers — contrary to all known fact...
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Why is a Karl Rove ad citing a Heritage study from the guy who once claimed that Latinos have low IQs? Karl Rove is a noted supporter of immigration reform. Yet more than once this election season, groups funded by him have attacked Democratic candidates by going after them...
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