Between the number of Democrats in the House and the number of Republicans who support a path to citizenship, there have long been enough votes to pass immigration reform through the House. The trick has just been getting Speaker Boehner to give the issue a vote — just like...
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Commentators from Jorge Ramos to Rachel Maddow to Jonathan Chait are pushing for Republicans to pass immigration reform this year, warning that the presidential politics of 2015 and thereafter will make it nearly impossible for the GOP to take up legislation. If Republicans really want to get the issue behind them —...
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Much like the debt ceiling vote of two days ago, if House Republican leadership were to bring up immigration reform for a vote it would pass with mostly Democratic and some Republican votes. But are the political consequences of inaction clear enough to the Republican Party to compel Speaker...
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Speaker Boehner and his caucus are still under pressure to push immigration reform legislation through the House this year, with commentators pointing out that 2014 represents a prime opportunity for them while Chuck Schumer and other Democrats consider using a discharge petition. But on the other side of Washington, President Obama...
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International Business Times: Immigration Advocates Say ‘No Republican Is Safe’ Without Action In 2014 By Laura Matthews Latino Post: Latino Immigration Reform 2014: Republican Are Trying to Recruit Historically Democratic Latino Voters, But Will their Tactics Work? By Matthew Reis C-SPAN: Future of Immigration Reform (VIDEO) NBC News (Meet...
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When more than 100 women were arrested in an act of civil disobedience on Capitol Hill last fall, they powerfully demonstrated that immigration reform is a women’s issue, one that deeply affects mothers, fathers, families, and children. That’s why the Alliance for Citizenship, with the Center for Community Change...
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Debt Ceiling Vote Shows the Way to Pass Immigration Reform – Or Else Washington, DC – The House of Representatives yesterday passed a clean debt-ceiling bill, with Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) assembling a coalition of 28 Republicans and 193 Democrats to get a clean extension passed. ...
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While Spanish-language media is furious at the House GOP’s latest excuse for not passing immigration reform, liberal commentators are ridiculing Speaker Boehner and his timidity in the face of the House Tea Party/conservative/Steve King wing. Yesterday, both Jon Stewart of the Daily Show and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC skewered House...
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Arizona Republic: Immigration activists threaten GOP political payback By Dan Nowicki VOXXI: Immigration reform advocates to House GOP: ‘We will be in your face’ By Griselda Nevarez MSNBC: Immigration groups ready ‘punishment’ for GOP By Benjy Sarlin Houston Chronicle: Immigration groups vow to get more aggressive with Texas Republicans...
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The following is a press release from the Fair Immigration Reform Movement: The nation’s largest immigration coalition—the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM)—announced today it will step up its efforts to achieve comprehensive immigration reform by moving into a phase of electoral punishment for GOP inaction. “Our actions last year...
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