US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Dismisses Arpaio’s Arguments as “Unduly Speculative” Today the US Court of Appeals for the DC circuit dismissed a lawsuit brought by Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. Arpaio had sued President Obama claiming that the DACA expansion and DAPA programs...
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GOP Contenders Talk Walls and Fences While Majority of Americans Want Common-Sense Comprehensive Reform Leading GOP candidates – and political journalists covering them – would be wise to read the just-published USA Today editorial entitled, “Lost immigration lesson: Getting to 100% border security sounds good only on the campaign trail.” It...
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In a new piece from VICE, an official from the Social Security Administration states that undocumented immigrants are paying an estimated $13 billion — yup, that’s with a “b” — in Social Security taxes every year. So much for immigrants being moochers, right? Stephen Goss, chief actuary of the SSA,...
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Here’s a perfect example of what happens when you used to support citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants and then hope to God you don’t get asked about it during an interview. During an interview with Fox’s Greta Van Susteren, Bush let loose a faux pas of epic proportions, accidentally...
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Defying Conventional Wisdom, Even Republicans Favor Citizenship/Permission to Remain by 68% to 31% A newly-released poll from Gallup shows that the American public, by a margin of 79% to 19%, supports immigration reform that allows undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States. The same poll shows that Republicans support legalizing undocumented...
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When three-quarters of all immigrants in the United States are women and children, women and mothers know that it’s ultimately our families who keep paying the human cost of our nation’s broken immigration system. It’s perhaps the main reason why 100 immigrant women, along with their supporters, will walk...
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Here’s more of that “Trump Effect” in action. Today, Chris Christie — fresh off a rocky debate performance, where even a visibly-irritated Rand Paul rolled his eyes at the candidate — told right-wing radio host and noted xenophobe Laura Ingraham that we should “reexamine” the 14th Amendment, which grants...
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From hotel resorts to golf courses to a private 757 jet (Hair Force One?), there’s no denying Donald Trump has been a successful moneymaker (“I’m really rich,” he once boasted, though the exact figure remains up for dispute). But for all his business acumen, you gotta wonder why Trump’s sole immigration...
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RNC Chair Reince Priebus’s 2012 post-mortem report following Mitt Romney’s obliteration seemed pretty clear in its message to Republicans: We must pass immigration reform if we’re going to make amends with the Latino voters who defeated us, and we must pass it now. “We must embrace and champion comprehensive...
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One small piece of plastic is drastically improving the lives of undocumented immigrants who call California and Nebraska home. In California — home to nearly three million undocumented immigrants, or about 25% of the nation’s undocumented population — 443,000 undocumented immigrants have received driver’s licenses under new state law, and...
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