It was quite the busy Monday for the Senate’s leading anti-immigrant member, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). By objecting to a Senate resolution honoring Latino civil rights hero Cesar Chavez and touting the shoddy “research” of allied anti-immigrant organization the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), Sen. Sessions offered a fresh...
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Of course this happened: MT: .@DSenFloor .@SenatorMenendez asked UC to pass SRes404, to honor Cesar Chavez. Republican Sen. Sessions objected. — Jose Dante Parra (@JoseDanteParra) March 31, 2014 DISGRACEFUL: 8th yr in a row @SenateGOP block my Res to honor #CesarChavez’s legacy. Hope they see the light nxt yr....
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American Immigration Council: New Report from Center for Immigration Studies on Deportation Data Misleads and Misinforms The Nation: Why Has President Obama Deported More Immigrants Than Any President in US History? By Alejandra Marchevsky and Beth Baker Fox News Latino: Think Tank Says DHS Releases Criminal Immigrants, But Critics Counter...
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View pictures and tweets here. Yesterday, nine Catholic bishops from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration journeyed to Nogales for a tour of the US-Mexico border. Today, they will hold a special mass at the border starting at 11:30 AM ET to commemorate the thousands of...
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On the heels of today’s New York Times story about California farmers who are running out of time and patience waiting for immigration reform, Greg Sargent at the Washington Post has a similar article about growers in places like Washington state (and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ district). According to...
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Two New York Times stories from this past weekend highlight the growing anger and disillusionment directed at both political parties, coming from core constituencies. The Republicans come in for special condemnation from agricultural producers for blocking immigration reform legislation. Meanwhile, President Obama’s record deportations are causing frustration and anger...
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Washington Post (Plum Line): Morning Plum: Pressure mounts on Obama over deportations By Greg Sargent NPR: Activists: We Want An Emancipator, Not A ‘Deporter In Chief’ By Richard Gonzales CNN: Why the ‘Cesar Chavez’ biopic matters now By Cindy Y. Rodriguez Reuters: Mexico finds 370 abandoned immigrant children New...
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Mar 28, 2014
Rep. Joe Garcia, AFL-CIO and Border Network Talk Discharge Petition, Bipartisan Effort to Fix Border Patrol & Next Steps on Immigration With a vacuum left by House GOP leadership, Democrats in the House of Representatives employed a series of procedural and legislative measures to force a vote on H.R....
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Texas Republicans apparently see the future coming — but the question is whether they can break their bad habits in time. The Dallas Morning News this week on how gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott (R) believes the future is linked to Hispanic voters: In the immediate celebratory afterglow of his GOP primary...
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Krikorian’s Employee Stephen Steinlight Has This to Say This About Religious Leaders Who Support Immigration Reform: “God help me, find a baseball bat, there would be a whole lot fewer of them around.” Washington, DC–Right Wing Watch has a video of Stephen Steinlight, senior policy analyst at the Center for...
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