Mar 11, 2013
Starting TOMORROW and continuing through this week, groups supporting immigration reform–like SEIU–are asking that you exercise your rights for immigration reform. The immigration debate is underway, and it’s crucial that we let Congress know that we support reform, and that immigration reform MUST include a path to citizenship! Please...
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Momentum is building each day for immigration reform, with a full-throated legislative debate set to start in the coming weeks. Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the third in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Each week, a different and diverse...
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It’s been a big week in immigration, with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush first coming out against citizenship in immigration reform legislation–then being forced to walk back to his old, pro-citizenship position. It goes to show how far the debate has come in such a short amount of time,...
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The botched Jeb Bush media tour and related controversy over his immigration positioning dominated this week’s immigration news. But the debate also clarified the fact that a road to earned citizenship is already the mainstream position on immigration reform. As Mayor Julián Castro and Frank Sharry remind us, citizenship...
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Cross-posted at Huffington Post. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to…be part of a permanent underclass in American society…”? Oops. Wrong America. While the italicized words above are mine, the opening words come from the inspiring poem by Emma Lazarus. Inscribed on the pedestal of...
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This week, Mitt Romney returned to national attention with an interview on “Fox News Sunday”—his first public appearance since the 2012 election, and instantly made it clear that with him, nothing has changed. The man who promised to veto the DREAM Act, advocated for self-deportation, brought immigration advisors like...
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The Paramus Post: Americas Voice Urge House Speaker Boehner for Public Censure of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Over Jessica Bravo Comments By Mel Fabrikant National Journal: Why Lindsey Graham Isn’t Acting Like a Worried Man By Jill Lawrence Politico: W.H. seeks tech’s help on immigration By Michelle Quinn National Journal:...
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Editor’s note: This column by Maribel Hastings was originally published in Spanish at La Opinion and Huffington Post Voces. The Spanish language version can be viewed here. WASHINGTON, DC – In an interview on NBC’s Today Show Monday, former Florida governor Jeb Bush said it’s premature to declare whether he’ll...
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The power of immigration reform WITH a path to citizenship is on full display this week, continuing to hammer down Jeb Bush days after his book revealed that he no longer believed a path was necessary. Instead of using his position to bring Republicans into the immigration debate, as...
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As coverage of Jeb Bush’s immigration flip-flop continues into how he has flipped and flopped and flipped again, the takeaway on how important citizenship is to immigration reform remains. Critics are calling Bush politically “rusty” and outdated for not realizing that a path to citizenship now the consensus position...
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