Wall Street Journal: House GOP Puts Immigration on Back Burner By Laura Meckler NBC Latino: Rep. Diaz-Balart: Immigration legislation “more difficult” if not done this year By Sandra Lilley Des Moines Register: What Iowa’s congressmen say about immigration reform New York Times: Bushes Focus on Immigration Debate to Reclaim...
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Bibles, Badges, and Business–a project of the National Immigration Forum–has been busy this August, holding dozens of events in key districts around the nation to push for immigration reform. The effort brings faith, law enforcement, and business leaders together in order to persuade members of Congress that immigration reform...
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In the last couple of weeks, reporters and commentators have made clear that when it comes to August and immigration reform, pro-reform advocates have decisively won the day. Our side has turned out far more people, who are much more enthusiastic, at significantly more events, and made our views...
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Twenty-one days and 285 miles later, PICO California’s Pilgrimage for Citizenship ended in Bakersfield, California yesterday, with more than 2,000 immigration reform advocates joining 15 pilgrims in House GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) home district. Eleven pilgrims (symbolizing the 11 million immigrants waiting for immigration reform in the US) began...
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Associated Press: Immigration Bill Knot: ‘Special’ Citizenship Path By Erica Werner MSNBC: Who’s who in GOP’s pro-immigration reform camp By Benjy Sarlin Arizona Republic: ‘Anti-amnesty’ movement failing to pick up steam By Dan Nowicki and Erin Kelly Mother Jones: Immigration Reform: Dead or Alive? By Gavin Aronsen The Guardian...
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Aug 30, 2013
The most influential House Member on immigration is not the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) or the Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), but Democrat Luis Gutierrez (D-IL). It is impossible to imagine how immigration reform can pass the House without the backing of...
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At a pre-Labor Day breakfast this week with The Christian Science Monitor, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka strongly warned the House GOP of the dire price of not passing immigration reform, saying that voters will punish the GOP for “decades.” Promising to bring a world of political hurt on opponents...
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It’s the penultimate week of August recess, and immigration reform supporters across the country are continuing to pressure Congress every single day to pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. As Jeremy Robbins of the Partnership for a New American Economy said this week, advocates aren’t just winning...
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Cross-posted from Cleveland Plain Dealer: Pedro Hernandez-Ramirez is at home in Elyria with his family. This may not seem like a monumental statement, but for Pedro, Seleste and their children, it means everything. That’s because, until two weeks ago, the government was trying to deport Pedro. Despite the fact that...
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