Mar 26, 2013
One month after Sen. John McCain faced hostile Tea Partiers at an Arizona town hall, McCain saw love from a roomful of immigrants this week who came to give him their support for immigration reform. Check out this great Twitterpic showing that Republicans CAN grow support from Latino voters by leaning...
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President Obama will host a naturalization ceremony at the White House today, where he will witness 28 immigrants, including 13 service members, become American citizens. The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice Education Fund: Today’s White House naturalization ceremony is a reminder of what...
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Eye-opening piece by Ian Urbina and Catherine Renz in the New York Times this weekend, about immigrants who are put into detention and then—for various reasons—are held in solitary confinement. The United Nations has likened long-term solitary confinement to torture, and has called for a ban on the practice...
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Washington Post (Opinion): How did we build an immigrant movement? We learned from gay rights advocates. By Frank Sharry Huffington Post (Blog): Got Any Spare Change (Theory)? By Jared Bernstein Arizona Republic: Senators closer on migrant measure By Dan Nowicki USA Today: GOP stresses minority outreach in self-critique By...
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The big story on this weekend’s Washington Post Outlook is a 2000-word piece by our Executive Director, Frank Sharry, on how our side built an immigrant rights movement. What’s the secret? We learned from gay rights advocates–and went LGBT on their a–. That meant mobilizing voters, challenging our friends...
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Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the fifth in a series of weekly press briefings, or “Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Each week, a different and diverse group of speakers will share the latest information on the players, politics, legislation and other developments coming down the pipeline as...
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McClatchy Newspapers: Senators lean toward point-based immigration system, giving workers more of an edge By Franco Ordonez NBC Latino: Gang of Eight will meet immigration timeline, says aide By Sandra Lilley ABC/Univision: White House: Missed Immigration Deadline No Cause for Alarm By Jordan Fabian Washington Post: Schumer says immigration...
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Mark Krikorian, head of the anti-immigrant “think tank” Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), is feeling a bit lonely this week. Surveying the likely GOP presidential contenders for 2016, he lamented to the conservative Weekly Standard, “I’m honestly looking for someone I can support in 2016.” Krikorian’s glum assessment of the potential 2016 Republican...
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Cross-posted at Latino Decisions Recently there have been a series of high profile endorsements for comprehensive immigration reform from the Republican Party. Immediately after the November 2012 election Bobby Jindal made a plea for more civility and and less stupidity on the immigration issue. Before too long, it was the Gang of 8 in...
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This week, conservative opposition to immigration reform continues to fall away, with the RNC releasing its report and Rand Paul supporting immigration with a path to citizenship. As Benjy Sarlin at Talking Points Memo wrote yesterday, even Tea Partiers are now coming around to supporting immigration. Some now wonder if...
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