Republicans kicked off their first Presidential debate of 2016 just like they finished off 2015: Trying to out-Trump each other in order to suck up to the anti-immigrant crowd that now makes up their base. One of the most heated moments of the night came from Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz,...
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Ahead of Tonight’s GOP Debate in SC, Leading GOP Contenders Propose Mass Deportation or Self-Deportation During this week’s official Republican response to the State of the Union address, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called on the country to resist “the siren call of the angriest voices” in how we welcome and treat...
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Last night, President Obama gave his final State of the Union address, and in keeping with a relatively recent tradition, Republicans offered their rebuttal in both English and Spanish — with one oh-so-slight catch. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart were each charged with delivering...
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DREAMers and activists from United We Dream Action interrupted Marco Rubio at the Kemp forum in South Carolina this past weekend to call out his anti-DACA attacks as his campaign continues to veer to the right. From UWD Action: Since championing comprehensive immigration reform in 2013, Senator Rubio has...
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Queue up “Thank You For Being A Friend,” because Donald Trump’s pals are flooding Iowa voters with robocalls in his support as the first nominating contest in the nation approaches. The catch? These friends happen to be from a white nationalist super PAC featuring the who’s who of right-wing...
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Juan Escalante of America’s Voice Documents Defining Moments in Marco Rubio’s Past that Pro-Immigration Voters Will Not Forget Today, ahead of this weekend’s Kemp Forum in South Carolina, Juan Escalante, Digital Campaign Manager at America’s Voice, highlights in a new Medium post the top moments when Marco Rubio “turned...
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Donald Trump is pushing more falsehoods about Mexicans? What a shocker. From Politifact: In a new television ad — his campaign’s first — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shows footage of dozens of people swarming over a border fence. But the footage isn’t as it seems. About halfway through...
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Dec 22, 2015
Once again, this year, anti-immigrant forces threw everything they could at us – in Congress, in states, on the campaign trail – and once again, we showed that our movement never backs down and continues to grow stronger. As we close 2015, we look back a slew of anti-immigrant...
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s meeting with a DAPA-eligible family on Monday marks the first Presidential election where all candidates from one party have met with immigrant families to hear their personal stories one-on-one. In November, former Gov. Martin O’Malley kicked off the “DAPA Dinners” campaign by breaking...
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Frank Sharry: “A party that needs to expand its appeal in a country undergoing a huge demographic transition has lurched to the right in a way that is likely to make it unelectable in the 2016 presidential race.” Political observers have been busy this week assessing the immigration back-and-forth...
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