Today, People For the American Way, America’s Voice, and ColorOfChange.org released an open letter to Republican presidential candidates urging them to make clear that they don’t support CPAC’s ongoing relationship with ProEnglish, a group led by white nationalist Bob Vandervoot. Despite CPAC’s troubling history of welcoming white nationalists as...
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For weeks now, Congressional Republicans have been embroiled in fight with each other over a DHS funding bill that would end DACA and DAPA for millions of DREAMers and immigrant parents. The House and Senate could pass a clean funding bill — as Democrats have been insisting — but...
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With the clock running out on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding, and pundits looking to see if Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) can work themselves out of the corner they painted themselves into, our take is that they are not really the members...
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Feb 20, 2015
Legal Expert, Legislative Analyst & DREAM Leader Discuss Next Steps Forward in TX Lawsuit and DHS Debate in Congress To listen to a recording of today’s call, click here. Between the legal battle in the courtroom and the ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding fight in Congress, developments...
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The White House just announced that the Department of Justice will file a request for an emergency stay of Judge Andrew Hanen’s ruling that blocked the expansion of DACA and the initiation of the DAPA programs. The following is a response by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice....
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Jorge Ramos of Univision and La Opinion Make it Clear Who’s to Blame While the next steps of the judicial and legislative battle over the new immigration policies initiated by executive action are less than clear, what is already certain is that Spanish language media reaction is so strong...
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As we noted earlier, we are confident that Judge Andrew Hanen’s temporary injunction blocking immigration executive action programs from going into effect will not stand. As it moves up the judicial ladder, serious jurists will apply the law, decide that it is well within established legal authority and historical...
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Judge’s Politicized and Poorly-Argued Decision Will Be Overturned The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the temporary injunction against DACA and DAPA issued by Judge Andrew Hanen last night: Judge Hanen’s ruling is a setback that was expected and will be...
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In a New Report, America’s Voice Education Fund Reveals Judge Hanen’s Foray into the World of Immigration Politics and the Disturbing Truth Behind the 25 State Lawsuit Today was the first hearing in the 25 states’ lawsuit against executive action, heard by federal judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, TX. ...
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Another day, another GOP-fueled government shutdown on the horizon. And other day of blistering headlines, editorials and opinion pieces eviscerating the Republican “all or nothing” strategy of attaching measures to block the President’s immigration executive action to critical Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds. See below for the latest...
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