Jan 17, 2014
National Immigration Leaders Discuss House State of Play and Moving the Process Forward The pressure is on House GOP Leadership to deliver immigration principles in the coming weeks. While we’ve heard some details about what the principles may include, the policy specifics remain vague and key questions about how...
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Wall Street Journal: Boehner to Release Principles on Immigration Overhaul By Laura Meckler BuzzFeed: It’s DREAMers Vs. Longtime Activists On Citizenship As A Dealbreaker For New Immigration Laws By Adrian Carrasquillo Think Progress: Group Memorializes Martin Luther King Jr. Day With Ad Blaming Black Unemployment On Immigration Reform By...
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Launch the petitions–Justin Bieber is apparently in danger of deportation. The pop star, originally from Canada, is facing felony charges for reportedly egging his neighbor’s mansion and causing $20,000 in damage, which amounts to a felony, which in turn is a deportable offense. As Colorlines and others have noted, Bieber’s antics are...
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Huffington Post (Blog): In Virginia, the Power of Showing Up By Michael Keegan Politico: Inside the House GOP’s immigration push By Jake Sherman and Seung Min Kim Roll Call: GOP Leadership Tees Up Immigration for Retreat By Matt Fuller Roll Call: This Year’s Legislative Acid Test: Immigration Rewrite By...
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With New Stay Request Filed, Ohio Community Makes Urgent Plea to Obama Administration to Keep Ricardo Ramos With His Family Painesville, Ohio – In the wake of an inspiring 20-mile pilgrimage that drew the support of over one-hundred Ohioans and media attention far and wide, the Detroit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office remains silent on whether they...
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Well, this is rich. A new ad from the anti-immigrant group Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) invokes the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr–right in time for MLK Day–by once again trying to blame black unemployment on immigrants. It’s a tactic that opponents of immigration reform have tried many...
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Americans on the Hook for $18 Billion, a “Mindless Waste of Taxpayer Money” This week, congressional negotiators agreed on the details of an omnibus spending bill to fund federal agencies through the end of the fiscal year. In absence of broader immigration reform, the immigration-related details amount to an endorsement of...
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In the Senate, a deal to pass an unemployment insurance extension seems to have fallen apart, but one of the amendments proposed in the process may continue to haunt Republicans. The GOP is supposed to be reaching out to Latino voters, not that anyone would be able to tell...
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Roll Call: Ayotte Pressured by Immigration Advocates By Humberto Sanchez Latino Post: Immigration Reform 2014: New Jersey, Pennsylvania Lead Immigration Reform by Enacting DREAM Act Legislation By Jessica Michele Herring New York Times: Republican Ideas on Immigration Could Legalize Up to 6.5 Million, Study Says By Julia Preston National...
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One political hot topic today is the new biography of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, entitled “The Loudest Voice in the Room” and allegedly published despite Ailes’ best efforts to squash it. It’s easy to see why he didn’t want people to read it: the book charges that he once...
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