Remember this one the next time the GOP claims that it wants to pass immigration reform: Rep Salmon says border bill lacked votes. “God bless the weather” he says on leadership excuse for pulling. — Erica Werner (@ericawerner) January 27, 2015 Thanks to house of Rep not moving ahead...
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Update: Rep Salmon says border bill lacked votes. “God bless the weather” he says on leadership excuse for pulling. — Erica Werner (@ericawerner) January 27, 2015 House Republicans have pulled the controversial McCaul border bill, which was scheduled to be voted on later this week. The GOP is citing inclement...
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It looks like the promised Republican vision of “responsible governance” has a decidedly anti-immigrant bent. In both chambers of Congress and in the early stages of the 2016 campaign, the Republican Party is adopting and embracing a restrictionist vision of immigration policy centered on maximizing deportations. Despite widespread recognition...
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So here’s a dark and not-so-secret truth about the GOP’s anti-immigrant position: they’re not only opposed to undocumented immigration. Frequently, they are also against legal immigrants. Former and probably future presidential candidate Rick Santorum exposed that fact at a Tea Party rally in Florida, in this video captured by American Bridge:...
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Who does the GOP think it’s kidding? For the GOP and immigration, it’s bad enough that Steve King once again made headlines yesterday by calling a DREAMer and honored guest of the First Lady a “deportable.” But the Republican Party added insult to insult by subtly changing the Spanish translation...
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This Saturday, leading Republican presidential contenders will travel to Iowa to attend anti-immigrant Rep. Steve King’s “Freedom Summit.” As the Des Moines Register previews, the event is “already pegged by the campaign-industrial complex as the kickoff to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses.” As an earlier Register piece characterized, King is...
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House Republican leaders appear to be riding an immigration seesaw. One minute they’re attaching extreme amendments to the DHS appropriations bill to placate the Steve King wing of their conference, the next minute they’re readying a “Plan B” in case those provisions get rejected by the Senate. Here’s POLITICO on...
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Yesterday, the House GOP took their most anti-immigrant vote yet, amending a DHS funding bill to use as a weapon against executive action and DACA. It’s the GOP’s first immigration move this session — and they’ve made it unequivocally in favor of mass deportation. Here’s what commentators are saying...
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The following is a reaction from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, in response to House Republicans’ passage today of anti-immigrant legislation that would overturn last November’s executive actions, end the DACA program for DREAMers, and maximize deportations of undocumented immigrants settled in America: With this vote, the...
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The new House Immigration Subcommittee assignments are out, and its composition is not going to be helping Republicans with Latino voters anytime soon. There’s the infamous Rep. Steve King (R-IA) himself, of “calves the size of cantaloupes” fame. There’s Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), whom we once described as “unlikely...
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