Mar 12, 2014
Associated Press: Washington detention center hunger strike on Day 5 Associated Press: Immigration Detainees On Hunger Strike Threatened With Force Feeding, Attorney Claims EFE: Activists Ask Boehner To Show “Courage” In Pushing Forward Immigration Reform NBC News: Immigration Activists Hit National, State Fronts By Sandra Lilley and Suzanne Gamboa...
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Tomorrow, House Republicans are planning floor action on the ENFORCE Act (HR 4138) and the Faithful Execution of the Law Act (HR 3973). Both bills seek to strip the President’s executive authority. In case there was any confusion about the intentions and implications of these bills, the House Judiciary...
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Republicans in the House of Representatives seem to be planning to ignore immigration reform this Congress, to the detriment of the country, California, and their own political interests. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) and his fellow Republicans have offered weak excuses for their inaction, despite the fact...
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Greg Sargent Uses New Analysis to Show How Republican Opposition to Immigration is Threatening the Republican Party’s Future In a piece titled, “Why Republicans should embrace immigration reform, in one chart,” Greg Sargent of the Washington Postpresents a new analysis by Michael McDonald at the United States Elections project that...
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CPAC came to a conclusion over the weekend, and anti-immigrant types like NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks and Center for Immigration Studies’ Mark Krikorian complained that there just wasn’t room for them at the conference this year. “It used to be that at CPAC there was at least one panel that...
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At the Washington Post today, Greg Sargent presents a new analysis by Michael McDonald at the United States Elections project, which finds that the Latino vote from 2012-2016 will rise by two percentage points in Florida, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona — and one percentage point in Virginia,...
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In Tacoma, Washington, hundreds of detainees are in the fourth day of an ongoing hunger strike to protest President Obama’s record deportations. Advocates say that 1,200 detainees are participating in the hunger strike, which would be nearly the entire population of the Northwest Detention Center (1,300). The hunger strike...
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Nation’s Largest Spanish Newspaper Delivers Important Editorial Calling for Both/And Approach The nation’s largest Spanish-language newspaper, La Opinión, editorializes today that President Obama should take executive action to “prevent the deportation of people with deep roots in this country.” Notably, the editorial captures that the rising pressure on the...
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Roll Call: Gutierrez Defends Calling Obama ‘Deporter in Chief’ By Emma Dumain Associated Press: Can GOP neutralize immigration as election issue? By Nicholas Riccardi Huffington Post: Immigration Advocates Juggle Fights Against Obama And GOP By Elise Foley UPI: Immigration advocates call on Obama to cut back deportations Gannett: Immigration...
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Mar 7, 2014
The Border Patrol and its policies allowing for the excessive use of force came under renewed scrutiny last week, with the release of a DHS inspector general report investigating 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths. The report found, among other things, evidence of Border Patrol agents deliberately stepping...
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