This morning, House Democrats announced a new strategy to target 30 key Republicans on immigration reform, pushing them to support the discharge petition and bring HR 15 to a vote. The Democrats will distribute member-specific memos — available in English, Spanish, and Mandarin — to districts represented by Republicans...
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Republicans Continue to Risk White House in 2016 by Making Steve King Face of the Party in Immigration In analysis at the FiveThirtyEight.com website titled “Like Bush, Many Republicans Are Moderate on Immigration, Nate Silver assesses the political implications of Jeb Bush’s recent “act of love” comments regarding undocumented immigrants. After examining Republican...
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As we wrote about here, Paul Ryan narrowly missed sharing the stage with Steve King during a fundraiser in Iowa last Friday. But that’s beside the point when Ryan has voted with Steve King on key anti-immigrant provisions like the latter’s amendment to deport DREAMers, and is a member...
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These Days Jeb Bush is on the Outs and Steve King is in Charge Washington, DC – Last weekend, Jeb Bush said something that once would have been unremarkable. He said that for many undocumented immigrants, their decision to come to the United States is “an act of love,...
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As Benjy Sarlin at MSNBC pointed out, even Mitt Romney supported legalization for military DREAMers. That means that the current House GOP, in refusing to consider Jeff Denham’s ENLIST Act as part of the defense authorization bill, is officially to the right of Romney — the DREAM Act-vetoing, SB 1070-supporting,...
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For a period of time following the 2012 election, Republicans were recalcitrant about their approach to immigration reform and Latino voters. The Latino vote overwhelmingly went to Obama over Romney, helping Obama secure the election, and Republicans blamed policies like self-deportation for the loss. Countless Republican commentators registered their...
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This afternoon, House Democrats continued their efforts to demand a vote on H.R. 15. At a hearing of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA), offered H.R. 15 as an amendment to the Republican budget. Cardenas spoke in favor of the amendment as did Representatives Kathy Castor (D-FL), Michelle...
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Of course this happened: MT: .@DSenFloor .@SenatorMenendez asked UC to pass SRes404, to honor Cesar Chavez. Republican Sen. Sessions objected. — Jose Dante Parra (@JoseDanteParra) March 31, 2014 DISGRACEFUL: 8th yr in a row @SenateGOP block my Res to honor #CesarChavez’s legacy. Hope they see the light nxt yr....
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On the heels of today’s New York Times story about California farmers who are running out of time and patience waiting for immigration reform, Greg Sargent at the Washington Post has a similar article about growers in places like Washington state (and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ district). According to...
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Here is how a bunch of Republicans spent their Wednesday (from NBC News): Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told attendees at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Summit in a keynote speech that immigration reform legislation is “not a question of if, but when.” Reince Priebus, chairman of the...
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