BREAKING: The Illinois State House has just passed the state’s immigrant driver’s licenses bill, 65-46. Today is the last day of the legislative session and the last chance to pass the bill in the current term. The bill, which has already been passed by the Senate, now goes to Governor...
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Young students coming together to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—a national holiday set aside to recognize freedom, equality, democracy, and activism—usually, are applauded and encouraged. Not so in the case of conservative shock jock Mark Belling and the Racine Unified School District (RUSD) versus a Wisconsin youth group...
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As momentum grows for a real debate on immigration reform with a path to citizenship, we expect the usual suspects (mostly Republicans) to adhere to their worn out “border security first” talking point as a way to thwart progress. Today, the Migration Policy Institute is releasing a new report, Immigration...
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Today, Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) announced that he will join the House Judiciary Committee, stepping away from a plum post as the third ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, so that he can fight for immigration reform. As Rep. Gutierrez stated, “passing comprehensive immigration reform is...
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Immigration reform is next on the national agenda in 2013. In the video below, Comcast NewsMakers with Robert Traynham speaks with Rep. Mario Diaz Balart (R-FL) about the prospects for real immigration reform in the 2013 Congress. Watch: As Diaz-Balart says, there is both a “window of opportunity—in the first year...
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Immigration is the hot topic of 2013, and ABC News / Univision’s @TedHessen has picked out 20 top tweeters on immigration to follow and keep up with. The list is here–congratulations to everyone listed! PS. Congratulations to Cristina Jimenez, Managing Director of United We DREAM, named one of “Five...
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Today, the above-the-fold headline in the Washington Post reads: “Obama prioritizing immigrant issues” (which matters because many people here still get the Post delivered). The headline of the online version of the article is: “White House pushes forward on immigration ahead of bigger reform fight.” There is a new conventional wisdom...
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week announced the culmination of a years-long effort to reform the family unity waiver process for new Americans, who up until recently had to travel back to their country of origin to obtain a visa without any guarantee of being able...
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With the passage of SB 1070 in 2010, Arizona became the first state in the nation to sanction the kind of ugly anti-immigrant politics that states like Alabama and Georgia now also practice. Despite warnings about its racial profiling provisions and the potential for negative impact on the state,...
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The Huffington Post reports that President Obama is planning to move “full steam ahead” on immigration reform this January, with the White House planning “to push forward quickly.” Meanwhile, both movement conservatives and Republican leaders are calling for Republicans to engage in a new way on immigration. As a new America’s Voice report makes clear, this...
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