Cross-posted at Latino Decisions Despite growing popular support among non-Latinos both nationally and in key swing states in favor of immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship, the conventional wisdom suggests that the bipartisan legislation that recently passed the Senate faces an uphill battle in the Republican controlled...
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Cross-posted from Cincinnati Inquirer: It’s hard to say what’s more disheartening: Sen. Rob Portman’s vote against the toughest immigration bill in Senate history, or his feeble justification for abandoning it. In an op-ed penned on this page last week, Portman, R-Terrace Park, who actually claims to support immigration reform,...
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Daily Beast: Marco Rubio Spurned by Original Tea Party Supporters Over Immigration By Patricia Murphy Wall Street Journal: Focus of Immigration Debate Shifts to House By Sara Murray Roll Call: GOP Immigration Feint in the House? Or Just a Faint of Heart? By David Hawkings Politico: John Boehner: No...
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We’re back from a long weekend, and the fight for immigration reform has pivoted. Following the passage of bipartisan immigration legislation in the Senate by a 68-32 vote, all attention is on the House and Speaker John Boehner. Unfortunately, up first is this Wednesday’s House Republican internal meeting on immigration. The...
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When House Republicans hold their closed-door internal meeting on immigration this Wednesday, members of Congress would be wise to ask Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to recount the cautionary tale of the Republican Party’s demise in his home state of California. In 1994 Governor Pete Wilson (R-CA) pushed through...
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Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID), formerly of the House Group of 8 on immigration, got into a widely-covered spat with conservative columnist David Brooks this weekend, when Brooks called the Congressman out for opposing the Senate immigration bill. Labrador, who this weekend also spent time warning Republicans about the perils of...
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New York Times: Shifting Stance to Back Immigration Overhaul, Reid Reaps Benefits By Carl Huse National Journal: Advocates of Senate Bill Turn Their Attention to the House By Rebecca Kaplan Politico: Immigration bill’s starts and stops By Seung Min Kim MSNBC: The right’s desperate search for more white voters...
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By Yoli Navas: “Qué Pasa” is our weekly roundup of news, opinion, and links from Spanish-Language online news publications: With last week’s passage of S. 744, the Senate bipartisan immigration reform bill, Spanish language media has been focusing on the next step for immigration reform, passing legislation through the House of...
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Some Conservatives Call on GOP to Double Down on Romney’s “Whites-Only” Strategy Remember the 2012 election season when Mitt Romney focused primarily on mobilizing white voters, advocated for “self-deportation” and alienated Latino voters so thoroughly that it helped Barack Obama win the swing states of Florida, Virginia, Nevada and Colorado? Remember the post-election stampede of conservative...
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Cross-posted at Latino Decisions, Latino Vote Matters, and Daily Kos: While the 2016 presidential election is a full three years away many of the high profile Republican contenders are enmeshed in the immigration reform debate, and if Republicans demonstrate strong leadership on passing comprehensive immigration reform with a path...
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