October 16, 2013; 1:27 PM EDIT: At the debate last night, Christie embraced tuition equality for immigrants: “What I always have said is that when economic times got better, that that would be one of the things that I would consider,” Christie said during last night’s debate at Montclair State...
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The nationwide March for Immigrant Dignity and Respect was technically last week, but immigration reform advocates and allies this weekend continued to push for reform. Thousands of people showed up for rallies in Chicago and Omaha, Nebraska this last weekend, while activists in Tucson, Arizona engaged in an act of civil...
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A range of recent polling from NBC/Wall Street Journal, Washington Post/ABC News, and Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows that the Republican brand image continues to plummet, sinking among nearly all demographic groups of voters including Latinos (75% of Latinos now disapprove of the Republican Party’s handling of budget talks...
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Northern Voices Online News: Immigration reform 2013: House Republicans to benefit from the bill, says a poll Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: Despite prayer, rallies, immigration reform not getting attention By Georgia Pabst USA Today: Conservative ‘fly-in’ aims to sell House GOP on immigration By Alan Gomez NBC Latino: Immigration talks...
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Oct 11, 2013
Will California Republicans Lead National Party Forward on Immigration? Today, on a press call with reporters, immigration reform leaders and elected officials discussed recent polls conducted by Magellan Strategies in three Republican-held congressional districts in California: CD-10 (Denham), CD-21 (Valadao) and CD-22 (Nunes). Moderated by Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director...
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Before Ted Cruz was a default-pushing gadfly egging Republicans on in fiscal issues, he was a gadfly who pushed the Senate to oppose immigration reform with a path to citizenship (despite being born in Canada himself). “I think the reason that President Obama is insisting on a path to...
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“Qué Pasa” is our weekly roundup of news, opinion, and links from Spanish-Language online news publications: EFE: Congressional leaders and activists arrested for demanding immigration reform As immigration reform faces an uncertain future, eight U.S. Congressmen were arrested on October 8th at the Capitol after a rally for immigration reform. The...
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The following is a cross-post from Latino Decisions: This summarizes a longer report delivered at the The Rosemary P. and John W. Galbraith Conference on Immigration sponsored by The Miller Center at the University of Virginia. The piece outlines the implications comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) on Latino political behavior based analysis...
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Yesterday, we learned that the Bipartisan Policy Center has concluded, somehow, that President Obama should not expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to other immigrants facing deportation because that action would “undermine” the effort to pass immigration reform. From BPC: “Some immigration reform advocates, frustrated by the slow...
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Yesterday, PICO California and America’s Voice released new district-level polling and analysis finding that voters in three key California districts overwhelmingly support immigration reform with a path to citizenship (and specifically, HR 15, the House bill which legislates both) and that the Congressmen representing those districts would benefit enormously if...
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