Immigration reform advocates outside Kevin McCarthy‘s office weren’t the only ones demonstrating demonstrating for reform yesterday. In Oregon, farmworkers, students, faith leaders, and labor leaders with Pineros y Campensinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), Oregon Action, Causa Oregon, and Rural Organizing Project held an act of civil disobedience inside Rep. Greg Walden...
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State of Play on Politics and Policy, In Congress and the Administration Pressure from across the country continued to mount this week on both House Republicans and the Obama Administration. On this week’s Office Hours call, we discussed the policy changes prioritized by members of the immigrant and Latino...
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Advocates Applaud U.S. Attorney Hickton for Delivering Justice, Urge Eric Holder to Follow Hickton’s Lead After a hard fought public campaign to reunite him with his U.S. citizen children, 24-year Ohio resident Jose Alfredo Ramos Gallegos received justice today. As Lisa Thompson of the Erie Times-News reports: U.S. Attorney David J....
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Speaker Boehner may supposedly want to pass immigration reform, but the Steve King caucus in the House, of course, does not. King and his right-wingers were given voice this week when 22 anti-immigrant Senators wrote a letter to President Obama claiming that any executive action on deportations would amount to...
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So why doesn’t Speaker Boehner just give us a floor vote on immigration reform already? He clearly wants to. Yesterday, the Speaker made headlines after speaking at the Middletown Rotary Club in his home district, where he mocked his own caucus for being afraid to pass immigration reform. “Here’s...
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Reuters: Obama administration may unveil new deportation policy in two stages By Julia Edwards and Richard Cowan Huffington Post: Obama Faces Growing Rebellion Against The Secure Communities Deportation Program By Elise Foley Huffington Post: GOP Senators Accuse Obama Administration Of Suspending Immigration Law ‘At Its Whim’ By Elise Foley...
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Today, DREAMers and advocates with the Florida Immigrant Coalition have taken over the state Capitol in Tallahassee to launch “Dream University,” an effort to push the state senate — and its president, Don Gaetz — to allow a vote on in-state tuition. In-state tuition is now law in fifteen states,...
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A day after immigration reform advocates with UFW camped out all night in front of GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield office, 1100 activists gathered to march, protest, and deliver produce. Their message: farm workers harvest for 10 hours a day. Why hasn’t Rep. McCarthy, and the House GOP, taken even...
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EDIT May 7, 2014: Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard has asked DHS for a new report on Secure Communities: http://roybal-allard.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=379194 According to the Washington Post today, a Senate oversight report has found that the top watchdog for DHS to have compromised his role as an independent inspector general, getting close with department leaders and altering...
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Two Million Deportations by Obama Administration Not Enough for Leading Republicans Erica Werner of the Associated Press reports that a group of Republican Senators are already criticizing the Obama Administration’s review of its own immigration enforcement policies and priorities even though the review isn’t even complete. Apparently, these 22...
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