12:55 PM EDIT: Business Insider is now retracting their quote from Priebus. They originally reported that Preibus said “when someone makes those comments” about self-deportation, “obviously, it’s racist.” Their correction now has his quote reading “obviously, it hurts us.” For too long, the Republican Party has been controlled by its harsh...
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In an article titled, “Immigration Overhaul Advocates Make Big August Push,” Holly Yeager of the Washington Post writes: “An unusual alliance of advocates — including Internet moguls and evangelicals, representatives of big business and labor unions — is working across the country during the August congressional recess in an...
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In an article titled, “Immigration Overhaul Advocates Make Big August Push,” Holly Yeager of the Washington Post writes: “An unusual alliance of advocates — including Internet moguls and evangelicals, representatives of big business and labor unions — is working across the country during the August congressional recess in an all-out...
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The demographics in two southern states that have been safe bastions for the GOP are changing. And those changes will impact elections and the immigration reform. Virginia is considered a purple state at the presidential level. In 2012, President Obama carried the state and former Governor Tim Kaine was...
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The Senate’s leading anti-immigrant voice, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), predicted to the New York Times in June, “The longer it lays in the sun, the more it smells, as they say about the mackerel.” Sessions’ pungent quote was in reference to the immigration legislation which at that point was pending in the Senate, prior to...
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Are House Republican leaders sure that they want to drag immigration reform out? It’s only the first week of August recess, and while immigration reform advocates have been making news across the country holding rallies, attending town hall events, and delivering thousands of petitions, opponents of reform have been going...
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According to Buzzfeed this morning, Steve King isn’t done with his DREAMers-are-drug-runner comments yet. Saturday on Fox News, King said that an anonymous border patrol agent said that his recent comments–that most DREAMers are drug runners with “calves the size of cantaloupes”–were maybe off by ten pounds. As King...
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Boehner Calls Reform “More Difficult” in Light of Extremist Comments, When They Should Make Passing Reform More Imperative As anti-immigrant extremist Rep. Steve King (R-IA) continues his media tour to defend his infamous comparison of DREAMers to drug smugglers, he has company – another high-profile Republican has joined Rep....
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Steve King, Steve King, Steve King. Never one to apologize when he’s said something outrageous and bafflingly wrong, King took to Breitbart today to double down on his recent comment that most DREAMers are drug runners with “calves the size of cantaloupes.” In response to condemnations from John Boehner,...
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We’ve collected some of our favorite tweets about Steve King’s latest comment; here are excerpts from our favorite news and blog commentators: From Greg Sargent at the Washington Post: Steve King’s twisted immigration math So, yeah, it’s a great idea for House Republicans to delay this process all the way...
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