Commentators are outraged at this story that appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe, about instances where the US is allowing certain immigrant parents to stay — but deporting their children. In moves that underscore how completely dysfunctional the US immigration system is, the US has for years granted temporary protected...
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President of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council Ken Palinkas made a lot of headlines this week claiming that terrorists are looking for ways to exploit our borders and sneak into the US. As the Washington Times quoted Palinkas saying: In addition to the extremely real and serious threat...
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The Senate, via last year’s bipartisan supermajority vote in favor of comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, has already spoken about its policy preferences for immigrants and DREAMers. But apparently that’s not enough for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who today is trying to pull a Steve King by...
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It might be a symbolic gesture at this point, but in the immigration debate symbolism matters. California’s notoriously anti-immigrant Proposition 187—the ballot initiative that spawned a movement and inspired untold numbers of leaders to enter organizing and politics—has been removed from California state law. It was already unenforceable thanks...
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The big news on immigration this week has been the pro-migrant community’s anger at President Obama and the Democrats for not taking executive action on immigration reform. But Republicans should not forget that they are in huge trouble with the community for killing legislation in the first place — which...
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This is disturbing news: Michael Hethmon is an attorney with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a group that pushes anti-immigrant laws like Arizona’s SB 1070 in states around the country and counts people like Kris Kobach among its members. Hethmon is currently running for a House of Delegates seat in Maryland —...
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The Daily Show’s news correspondent Michael Che sat down with one of the mainstays of the anti-immigrant movement — Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen — in a segment that aired last night. As Gilchrist talked about the children at the border in terms of invasion and apocalypse, Che had...
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Yesterday, forty national faith leaders delivered a succinct, one-sentence message to President Obama urging him not to compromise the lives of children fleeing violence in any future executive action. With new reports of Honduran children being killed following their deportation from the US and Mexico, the short message underscores...
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News reports suggest that the President may delay big executive action on immigration until after the November elections, due to complaints from scared Democrats in red states. If this happens, it will be because Democrats have simply forgotten all the lessons we thought they learned in the 2008, 2010,...
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Sep 2, 2014
Another August, another anti-immigrant flop. ALIPAC and Overpasses for America, two extremist anti-immigrant groups, have for weeks been trumpeting rallies planned for August 29-30, with their most recent emails proclaiming plans for 118 different events across the country. The long weekend came and went…and you can see the fruit...
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