Apr 15, 2014
Associated Press: Democrat Says Immigration Reform Has Stalled Because Of GOP ‘Racism’ USA Today: Is race a reason why immigration bill is stalled in Congress? By Catalina Camia NBC News: GOP Moves Away From Bush Years By Mark Murray and Carrie Dann Slate: Why Jeb Bush May Win the...
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At the New Republic today is a great piece on expedited removals, which account for roughly 40% of deportations. The Obama Administration is deporting roughly 400,000 immigrants a year, at such a breakneck pace that many of those removed are not benefiting from due process. The vast majority who...
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Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) officially captured the GOP nomination for the Senate this weekend, which means he will be running against Democratic incumbent Mark Udall this fall. While state Republicans gathered at the Coors Event Center, however, pro-immigration reform activists protested outside, calling out Gardner’s anti-immigrant policies and holding up...
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The Obama deportation machine has come under fire recently for ramping up the deportation of immigrants with strong family ties and little or no criminal record. Not only is there a moral imperative to stop separating American immigrant families with these practices, but there’s a fiscal one as well:...
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Republicans Continue to Risk White House in 2016 by Making Steve King Face of the Party in Immigration In analysis at the FiveThirtyEight.com website titled “Like Bush, Many Republicans Are Moderate on Immigration, Nate Silver assesses the political implications of Jeb Bush’s recent “act of love” comments regarding undocumented immigrants. After examining Republican...
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As we wrote about here, Paul Ryan narrowly missed sharing the stage with Steve King during a fundraiser in Iowa last Friday. But that’s beside the point when Ryan has voted with Steve King on key anti-immigrant provisions like the latter’s amendment to deport DREAMers, and is a member...
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On Friday, Paul Ryan came to Cedar, Iowa to headline the state Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Dinner — an event that prominently billed Steve King as an invitee even though he supposedly declined his invitation weeks ago. Ryan, who is known for speaking very sympathetically about immigration reform, was fortunate to...
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People’s World: Immigration activists arrested at civil rights meet By Evlynn Wier Washington Post: Rand Paul: Jeb Bush could have been ‘more artful’ with immigration comment By Sean Sullivan Huffington Post: Rand Paul: ‘We Can’t Invite The Whole World’ To Immigrate To U.S. By Christina Wilkie The Hill: Paul...
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As Comprehensive Immigration Reform Stalls and Non-Controversial ENLIST Act Wavers, Fringe Republican House Members Continue to Prove their Stronghold Over House Leadership and House Agenda It’s been quite the couple of weeks for the extremist Rep. Steve King (R-IA) caucus. In the wake of comments from their ringleader himself...
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Must-read at Politico is the story of Howard Dean Bailey, an immigrant from Jamaica who served his country — and then was deported. Bailey was 17 when he followed his mother from Jamaica to the US, immigrating legally with a green card. After high school, he enlisted in the...
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