On Tuesday night, President Obama’s State of the Union address and the Republican response from Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) are expected to promote immigration reform, which has emerged as at top priority in 2013. But Tuesday night will simply continue the momentum behind the reform effort initiated in January...
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On Tuesday night, President Obama’s State of the Union address and the Republican response from Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) are expected to promote immigration reform, which has emerged as at top priority in 2013. But Tuesday night will simply continue the momentum behind the reform effort initiated in January...
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Today, the House Judiciary Committee held this year’s first hearing on immigration – a chance to put forward immigration solutions that would strengthen our country. What’s at stake in this debate has been clearly laid out by President Obama and the bipartisan group of Senators – citizenship for 11...
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If you can’t watch today’s hearing on immigration in the House Judiciary Committee, follow along on twitter. Tweets by @americasvoice
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As the House Judiciary Committee holds a full immigration hearing tomorrow, we wanted to highlight a few of the most anti-immigrant hardliners on the Committee and shine a light on their most notorious misdeeds. At a time when Republicans realize that they must do better with Latino voters and...
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In recent years, the anti-immigrant wing of the Republican Party has driven the GOP’s immigration rhetoric and policies in a hard-line, inhumane, illogical, and tone-deaf direction. After Mitt Romney “self-deported himself from the White House – in the words of Republican strategist Ana Navarro – many in the Republican Party seemed...
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Curtain Rises on Immigration in 113th Congress as House Judiciary Committee Holds Tuesday Hearing In recent years, the anti-immigrant wing of the Republican Party has driven the GOP’s immigration rhetoric and policies in a hard-line, inhumane, illogical, and tone-deaf direction. After Mitt Romney “self-deported himself from the White House...
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Remember Brian Bilbray? The hardline anti-immigrant Congressman-turned-FAIR-lobbyist-turned-Congressman-turned-forced-retiree? Well, Bilbray—before his most recent electoral defeat—was the head of a group of anti-immigrant members of the House of Representatives called the “Immigration Reform Caucus.” To avoid confusion about what real reform looks like, we prefer to call it the Bully Brigade....
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