Republicans know that they have to win Latino voters to regain the White House — yet many of the GOP’s 2016 potentials appear to be willfully shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to winning support. Ted Cruz just pushed for a constitutional point of order against executive action...
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has, at least in the past, presented himself as a reasonable voice on immigration reform, a Hispanic Republican who could help bridge divides. No longer — he’s been running away from the Senate immigration bill ever since he helped pass it and this weekend, he voted along...
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GOP is Now the “‘Get Out’ Party” to Latino, APIA, and Immigrant Voters Today, by a 219-197 margin, House Republicans approved legislation by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) aimed at preventing the new Obama Administration immigration policy from taking effect. In addition to cementing the GOP’s anti-immigrant brand, today’s vote...
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View the America’s Voice statement here. Below, check out what other organizations are saying: Sen. Harry Reid: Instead of voting on the Senate’s bipartisan bill to secure our border and fix our broken immigration system, House Republicans voted once again to deport DREAMers and their families. I will not...
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Since even before Obama actually announced his executive action for immigrants, Republicans have been claiming that the President is a tyrant who is provoking a constitutional crisis by using his administrative powers — even though every single president since Eisenhower has acted unilaterally for immigration. But a post at by...
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For many months, it has been clear that Republicans have no intention to pass immigration reform legislation. Speaker Boehner has claimed both that Republicans distrust Obama too much to pass a bill and that Obama acting on his own to protect immigrants is improper. What’s left, then? The status quo,...
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Currently, Republicans are all over the place in how they want to respond to President Obama’s recent executive action: some are calling for a government shutdown, while others want to wait until next year to take up the issue. Some want to disinvite Obama from giving his annual State...
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New polling from CNN shows very strong support for the policy behind Obama’s immigration executive action: President Barack Obama’s policy of halting deportations for the undocumented parents of children born in the U.S. is popular — but his method for implementing it is not. Only 26% of Americans think...
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Check out this brilliant piece by Kevin Drum at Mother Jones. Republicans have been complaining about President Obama’s executive announcement on immigration, saying that Obama is behaving like a “tyrant” and that one man should not be in control of the nation’s immigration policy. On the latter part, Drum...
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President Obama announced his long-awaited executive action for immigrants last night and Republicans and conservatives, well, let’s just say they are not taking it well. Commentators and legal experts concur that President Obama is well within his legal authority, and that yesterday’s executive order is no different from moves taken by former Presidents Ronald Reagan...
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