House Republican Primaries in NC and OH Demolish Myth of Backlash Against Pro-Reform Republicans Yesterday’s primaries in North Carolina and Ohio proved, once again, that the supposed strength of the nativist wing of the GOP is more myth than reality. The results show that the vaunted anti-immigrant movement is...
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Fox News Latino: Obama Administration Plans To Allow High-Tech Guest Workers’ Spouses To Hold U.S. Jobs By Elizabeth Llorente BuzzFeed: Chuck Schumer’s Office, White House Spar Over Administration Immigration Policy Changes By Adrian Carrasquillo Reuters: U.S. proposes immigration rules to help high-skilled workers Associated Press: US to let some...
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This week, Jorge Ramos and Greg Sargent exposed the real GOP platform on immigration, and the fact that what they stand for is more deportations, since they don’t want President Obama to take executive action. Yesterday, the Supreme Court helped an application of that fact make headlines, when it declined to hear the case of Fremont,...
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Republicans in the House of Representatives seem to be planning to run out the clock on immigration reform this Congress, to the detriment of the country, Wisconsin, and their own political interests. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) and his fellow Republicans have offered weak excuses for their...
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A disturbing article today from the New York Times reveals that the vast majority of complaints against Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) abuses are simply ignored. As the article begins: On Feb. 16, 2010, a Mexican teenager caught trying to cross into the United States near Douglas, Ariz., filed a formal complaint...
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BuzzFeed: Lawmakers Concerned Executive Action On Immigration Could Mean Legal Limbo For Undocumented By Kate Nocera Washington Post: Biden defends remarks that undocumented immigrants are ‘already Americans’ By Katie Zezima Roll Call: Biden, Pelosi Mark Cinco de Mayo With Call for GOP Action on Immigration By David Eldridge The...
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On In-State Tuition Bill In Florida, Speaker Will Weatherford Steps Up; On Immigration Reform in Congress, Speaker John Boehner Steps Back In a must-read story entitled, “How House Speaker Will Weatherford saved the ‘Dreamer’ tuition bill,” Mark Caputo of the Miami Herald captures the pivotal role played by the...
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President Obama has deported more than 2 million people, many of whom would qualify for legislative immigration reform. Just last week, on May Day, advocates across the nation rallied for legislation and for an end to the separation of families. Today, an editorial at Bloomberg calls for action from Obama,...
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Financial Times: Military bill tests US immigration reform By Barney Jopson Politico: Senate Dems consider adding immigration to NDAA By Jeremy Herb and Seung Min Kim Washington Post: Immigrant activists’ dramatic new approach: Allow children to be arrested By David Nakamura Associated Press: Advocates Mount Final Push To Convince...
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House Republicans have so far been all talk, no action on immigration reform, but apparently even their chatter is worrying anti-immigrant conservatives. Steve King ominously warned yesterday that “this place will blow up” if the House ever tries to take up immigration reform, prompting “a crisis like we have not...
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