Rep. Paul Broun, a Republican Senatorial candidate in Georgia, is known for controversial comments like calling President Obama a communist and referring to evolution as a lie “straight from the pit of hell.” In an interview posted today, Broun broke bad again, in remarks discussing Georgia demographics and his electoral opponents. One particular...
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Two years ago, we were deeply involved in the battle against Alabama’s HB 56, the harshest immigration law in the country. HB 56 was a self-deportation bill that relied on racial profiling to harass immigrants in the state. But, as Benjy Sarlin notes, today, HB 56 is in shambles: “Illegal...
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It seems appropriate to end the year with Rep. Steve King (R-IA), since Speaker Boehner has been allowing him to dictate the House GOP’s efforts on immigration all year. Steve King is the guy who, in July, likened DREAMers to drug mules who have “calves the size of cantaloupes...
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WOW–and the GOP wonders why it has a problem with Latino and female voters. Yesterday, we wrote about an amazing act of civil disobedience in Washington state, where more than 30 women were arrested protesting for immigration reform, including the wife of the Seattle mayor. They had occupied the...
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In advance of tomorrow’s elections in Virginia, the Washington Post profiled the critical importance of rapidly-changing Prince William County and its residents, who “are the voters who will decide who is elected governor Tuesday”: All that growth has shifted the county’s political complexion, turning it from the last conservative...
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Rep. Darrell Issa’s upcoming immigration bill, which has yet to be publicly released, already has one conservative detractor, albeit not a very credible one. Yesterday, ICE union president Chris Crane gave an exclusive interview to Breitbart in which he urged Issa to forgo introducing his bill–and in the process, compared...
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Right now, Washington is consumed with the shutdown of the federal government — and the intransigence of the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. Even while DC is gridlocked, immigration keeps moving. Today, House Democrats are introducing their immigration reform bill. It’s legislation that includes bipartisan policies on...
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Tennessee hasn’t particularly been known for being an anti-immigrant state, but this week it is making news in the immigration world for all the wrong reasons. Rep. Scott Desjarlais (R-TN), a former physician who was fined for having extramarital affairs with female patients and pressuring one to have an...
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One more time: Immigration Reformers Are Winning August The Atlantic’s Molly Ball spent some time reporting on the August activities of our side and the anti-immigrant side. And, the results are pretty clear: we are winning. The full article is worth a read. Here are some excerpts: Activists on...
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Hearkening back to the 2012 GOP primaries where audiences booed a gay soldier and cheered for the death penalty, Tea Partiers at a Scott Desjarlais town hall this week clapped for the deportation of an 11-year-old’s father. Desjarlais, a Tennessee Republican, was taking questions from the audience when 11-year-old Josie Molina Macaraeg...
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