Produced by NDLON, the ABC Foundation, Interscope Records, Unbound Philanthropies, and La Panda: More about the cast–most of whom have lived or been impacted by the immigrant story: Hareth Andrade Ayala is a immigrants’ rights leader in the state of Virginia. She has spent her teen years traveling across the...
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It’s an little-known issue that is slowly getting a lot of attention in the immigration reform world, making headlines for how nonsensical and inefficient it is—and how many Republican Congressmen are continuing to defend it. It’s the detention bed mandate, which we wrote about last month and which has...
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Arizona Republic: ‘Dreamers’ reach out to D.C. By Daniel González and Dan Nowicki Las Vegas Sun: Immigration supporters target GOP House members seen as amenable to reform By Tovin Lapan Epoch Times: Prospects for Immigration Reform Improving By Mary Silver International Business Times: Immigration Reform 2013: ‘Time For Proponents...
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Today, more than 50 immigration reform advocates–including children and DREAMers–arrived on Capitol Hill from Phoenix, Arizona to pray for Speaker Boehner and push him to have the courage to move forward on immigration reform. Though the advocates stood, prayed, and waited outside Boehner’s office all day, the only word...
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Yesterday, we wrote about Rep. Tim Griffin (R-AR), a House Republican that we’ve recently discovered supports immigration reform with a path to citizenship. Today, we’re writing about another–Rep. Justin Amash, of Michigan, who makes the 28th House Republican known to be supporting reform and citizenship. In August, Amash–the son...
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Local and National Leaders Call on Republican Congressmen Amodei, Heck, Coffman, Gardner, and Tipton to Cosponsor New Immigration Bill In the wake of the shutdown and fiscal debacle, immigration reform has reemerged at the top of the national agenda, providing an important opportunity for the Republican Party to repair...
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According to the Wall Street Journal today, House Republicans are drafting at “least two measures…to address the thorniest part of an immigration rewrite: how to handle the immigrants who either came to the U.S. illegally or overstayed their visas.” The Journal reports that Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) is drafting...
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Updated October 22, 2013 Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-02) Crosstabs Toplines PowerPoint Facebook share Rep. Joe Heck (NV-03) Crosstabs Toplines PowerPoint Facebook share Rep. Scott Tipton (CO-03) Crosstabs Toplines PowerPoint Facebook share Rep. Cory Gardner (CO-04) Crosstabs Toplines PowerPoint Facebook share Rep. Mike Coffman (CO-06) Crosstabs Toplines PowerPoint Facebook share...
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Latinos Post: President Obama Talks Immigration Reform Post-Government Shutdown; Rubio Blames Bill’s Stalling on Obama By Jean-Paul Salamanca National Journal: Bipartisan Deals Can Only Pass Inside a Narrow Window. Here Are the Dates. By Fawn Johnson BuzzFeed: Chamber Of Commerce CEO: Ted Cruz Hasn’t Proven He Can Actually...
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Meet Rep. Tim Griffin, a Republican from Arkansas’ 2nd Congressional district–a former RNC staffer, Bush White House aide, US Attorney, sophomore Congressman, and supporter of immigration reform with a path to citizenship. Back in July, Griffin appeared on Capitol View with Roby Brock and David Goins, where he talked...
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