Think Progress Piece Highlights Upsetting Trend of Racial Profiling and Other Abusive Practices by Local Enforcement Agents and Facilitated by ICE Washington, DC – The haphazard and egregious deportations of immigrants and family separations is a consistent trend for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As the Administration prepares to...
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Jim DeMint’s Heritage Foundation is taking one big step away from Jason Richwine…and one step closer to embracing a reasonable immigration policy? The Heritage Foundation — now infamous for an episode last year where they released a report co-authored by a guy who believes Hispanics have lower IQs than whites —...
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Following is the first in a series from Maribel Hastings, Senior Advisor at America’s Voice, on the debate over legalization and citizenship. The article has been translated from Spanish to English and is available for reprint as long as the author is given proper credit. Now that Republicans in...
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While Acknowledging the Problem is the First Step, GOP Needs to Take Action on Immigration Reform to Avoid Repeating the Mistakes of 2012 Tomorrow marks the two-year anniversary of Mitt Romney’s infamous embrace of “self-deportation,” the immigration policy he first articulated during a Republican primary debate in Tampa. While...
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MSNBC: Is an anti-immigration think tank moving left? By Benjy Sarlin Politico: White House dials it down on immigration By Reid J. Epstein Latino Post: Immigration Reform News 2014: DREAMers, Longtime Activists Split Over the Urgency of Deportation vs. Citizenship By Selena Hill New York Times: 2 Friends Reach...
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Analyses from Washington Post’s Dan Balz & AP Highlight GOP Need to Take Action to Regain Competitiveness with Latino Voters This week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) will hold its winter meeting in Washington to assess the GOP’s current standing and to chart its path forward. Those attending should be sure...
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What is this, 2010? The New Mexico legislative session begins today, and one of the issues on the agenda is, unfortunately, Governor Susana Martinez‘s ongoing push to repeal driver’s licenses for immigrants living in the state. It’s an issue that Martinez had been dogged about since becoming Governor in...
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Reuters: U.S. immigration reform advocates see new hope in 2014 By Richard Cowan Wall Street Journal: States Take Lead in Boosting Immigrants By Miriam Jordan International Business Times: Republicans, This Is How You Kill Your Chances With Minorities And The 47% By Laura Matthews Northern Voices Online: Immigration reform...
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Jan 17, 2014
It’s a brand new year, but if Republicans thought that immigration reform advocates were going to ease up, they’re mistaken. Last year, supporters of reform accosted Speaker Boehner outside his favorite Washington, DC diner, prayed outside his office, and held a pre-dawn vigil outside his house–all to push the...
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A last-minute reconsideration from ICE means that, for now, Ricardo Ramos is still with his family. We began writing about Ricardo Ramos this week after the Latino and Polish communities in Ohio banded together to organize a 20-mile pilgrimage for the Cleveland father, an event which drew the support of over one hundred Ohioans and garnered...
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