View pictures and tweets here. Yesterday, nine Catholic bishops from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration journeyed to Nogales for a tour of the US-Mexico border. Today, they will hold a special mass at the border starting at 11:30 AM ET to commemorate the thousands of...
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On the heels of today’s New York Times story about California farmers who are running out of time and patience waiting for immigration reform, Greg Sargent at the Washington Post has a similar article about growers in places like Washington state (and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ district). According to...
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Two New York Times stories from this past weekend highlight the growing anger and disillusionment directed at both political parties, coming from core constituencies. The Republicans come in for special condemnation from agricultural producers for blocking immigration reform legislation. Meanwhile, President Obama’s record deportations are causing frustration and anger...
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Washington Post (Plum Line): Morning Plum: Pressure mounts on Obama over deportations By Greg Sargent NPR: Activists: We Want An Emancipator, Not A ‘Deporter In Chief’ By Richard Gonzales CNN: Why the ‘Cesar Chavez’ biopic matters now By Cindy Y. Rodriguez Reuters: Mexico finds 370 abandoned immigrant children New...
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Mar 28, 2014
Rep. Joe Garcia, AFL-CIO and Border Network Talk Discharge Petition, Bipartisan Effort to Fix Border Patrol & Next Steps on Immigration With a vacuum left by House GOP leadership, Democrats in the House of Representatives employed a series of procedural and legislative measures to force a vote on H.R....
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Texas Republicans apparently see the future coming — but the question is whether they can break their bad habits in time. The Dallas Morning News this week on how gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott (R) believes the future is linked to Hispanic voters: In the immediate celebratory afterglow of his GOP primary...
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Krikorian’s Employee Stephen Steinlight Has This to Say This About Religious Leaders Who Support Immigration Reform: “God help me, find a baseball bat, there would be a whole lot fewer of them around.” Washington, DC–Right Wing Watch has a video of Stephen Steinlight, senior policy analyst at the Center for...
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Think Progress: More GOP Senate Candidates Adopting Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric By Josh Israel and Andrew Breiner MSNBC: This is what it looks like when immigration reform dies By Benjy Sarlin Washington Post: Catholic leaders hope message from Pope and US bishops will revive immigration reform By Pamela Constable Washington Post...
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Right Wing Watch has a video of Stephen Steinlight, senior policy analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies, giving a speech to a Texas Tea Party group, and it isn’t pretty: Steinlight posited that the Gang of Eight’s immigration proposal “amounts to a plot against America,” warning that it...
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Here is how a bunch of Republicans spent their Wednesday (from NBC News): Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told attendees at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Summit in a keynote speech that immigration reform legislation is “not a question of if, but when.” Reince Priebus, chairman of the...
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