Tomorrow, House Republicans are gathering together for a closed-door, no-press meeting on immigration, where it is fully expected that anti-immigrant zealots like Steve King will try to rant the captive audience into opposing immigration reform. We’d like to be a fly on that wall, but it’s probably not even...
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Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars is calling out the hypocrisy and flip-flopping of Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who sits on the House Judiciary Committee and chairs the House Immigration Subcommittee, appeared on FOX this weekend to talk to John Roberts about immigration reform in the House. Nicole captures the...
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Ah, Sarah Palin. This weekend, she was in an uproar over the immigration bill that just passed the Senate. She is just outraged about the path to citizenship. But here’s the thing: in 2008, she strongly supported a pathway to citizenship. It’s all captured in an article from Buzzfeed’s...
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On the one hand, the Republican National Committee (RNC) recognizes the need to pass immigration reform in order to engage with Latinos, Asians and other immigrant communities. They even released an outreach report earlier this year in which the sole policy recommendation was supporting immigration reform. On the other...
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Our own Executive Director here at America’s Voice, Frank Sharry, debated Laura Ingraham on Fox News last night, and made the case for why Republicans–including Ingraham, a hard-right-winger–should support immigration reform. As Frank said: Laura, the guts of this bill is the most massive expansion of immigration enforcement in...
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Whoops. The Republican attempt to rebrand and remarket itself to minority voters continued to flail this week, in the midst of a Senate floor debate and cross-currents over competing border security amendments. Yesterday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) held a six-hour long anti-immigrant rally/rant/”debate” during which speakers and Tea Partiers...
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Opponents of immigration reform are getting ever wackier. On Monday, we wrote about a protest in Kansas that took place over the weekend at Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s house. The peaceful protest (you can see video here) left pairs of shoes at Kobach’s doorstep, to signify all the...
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This week, the Senate began debate on the immigration reform bill. If you’ve been watching, you’re seeing just how complicated the process in the Senate can be. It’s subject to a lot of delaying tactics and procedural games. As you can imagine, opponents of reform–led by Senator Jefferson Beauregard...
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Update: King’s amendment passed 224-201. Seven Republicans voted no, four Democrats voted yes. More analysis on what’s next and what this means, forthcoming. Last night, Steve King renewed his push to drive Republicans off the demographic cliff, by introducing a hateful amendment to a homeland security appropriations bill (HR...
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The anti-immigrant group NumbersUSA, a creation of white nationalist John Tanton, held a webcast yesterday during which a speaker admitted their full reason for opposing immigration reform—because they believe that all immigration is bad for America. The call featured Robert Rector, now of ‘I wrote a paper with a guy...
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