Boehner Better Not Be Relying on This Guy to Get Immigration Reform Done Is Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) trying to blow up immigration reform? Sure looks that way to us. At a town hall held in his Western Virginia district last evening, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)...
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Earlier this week, we wrote about 11-year-old Josie Molina Macaraeg, who bravely stepped up in a Tennessee town hall meeting with Rep. Scott Desjarlais to ask what she could do to help her dad, who is in deportation proceedings. A heartless Desjarlais only told her that “the answer remains the same,...
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While advocates of immigration reform have been bringing the heat this August, rallying in key districts all over the country for immigration reform and citizenship, apparently our opponents on the other side are having trouble turning out enough of an opposition to make their case. We’ve been seeing low...
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NBC Latino: Immigrant groups denounce RNC immigration resolution with no path to citizenship By Jacquellena Carrero Associated Press: House Judiciary chairman rejects ‘special’ path to citizenship, promises to fight Senate bill By Erica Werner Huffington Post: Bob Goodlatte On Immigration: No ‘Special Pathway’ From House By Elise Foley The...
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Over the weekend in Arizona, ICE systematically raided 16 car washes associated with two companies and arrested 223 immigrants. A spokeswoman from ICE went out of her way to emphasize that the raids followed a targeted investigation into businesses that were hiring the immigrant workers, not the workers themselves,...
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Telling Latino Immigrants to Get to the Back of the Bus Not an Effective Way to Conduct Latino Outreach Last week the Republican National Committee (RNC) passed a new immigration resolution that was intended to reach out to Latino voters. Instead, it showed how much work the GOP still has to...
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As we’ve been writing about all month, it’s August recess, and immigration reform advocates all over the nation are turning up the heat on Members of Congress. Advocates, DREAMers, family members, union allies, faith leaders, and many others are turning out at rallies, petition deliveries, and town halls in...
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Hearkening back to the 2012 GOP primaries where audiences booed a gay soldier and cheered for the death penalty, Tea Partiers at a Scott Desjarlais town hall this week clapped for the deportation of an 11-year-old’s father. Desjarlais, a Tennessee Republican, was taking questions from the audience when 11-year-old Josie Molina Macaraeg...
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Washington Post (Blog): Dems divided over immigration “Plan B” By Greg Sargent TIME: Can a Dusty Legislative Gambit Revive Immigration Reform? By Alex Altman ABC News: RNC Calls for Immigration Reform, but No Pathway to Citizenship By Shushannah Walshe TIME: Exclusive: RNC Ups Immigration Reform Pressure On Congressional GOP...
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Below is the eighth article in the series, “Immigration Reform Summer,” by Gebe Martinez, Advisor to America’s Voice Education Fund. This article is available for reprint as long as the author is given proper attribution. View other posts in the series here. A congregation-based group, including 11 tired and...
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