Bloomberg View: Immigration Backers Corner ‘Deporter in Chief’ Obama By Francis Wilkinson Los Angeles Times: Immigration advocates step up pressure on Obama to ease deportations By Kathleen Hennessey and Brian Bennett Fox News Latino: Deporter-In-Chief? President Obama’s Base Turning Against Him Over Inaction On Immigration By Elizabeth Llorente BuzzFeed:...
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Mar 6, 2014
CPAC starts today, but unfortunately most of our favorite anti-immigrant commentators won’t be there. Since the 2012 election, in which Mitt Romney was walloped because he supported self-deportation and lost the Latino vote, extremists have been a bit less welcome. Which is why Breitbart, for the second year in a row,...
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Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) have become the latest Senators to encourage President Obama to address his record rate of deportations. As Sen. Schumer told Politico in a statement today: We remain focused on passing a balanced immigration bill that secures our borders and fixes a broken...
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Well, it’s (semi) official. At the markup of Rep. Diane Black’s (R-TN) anti-immigrant bill yesterday, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte indicated that the legislation will be moving to the House floor next week. Per an assessment by Donna Cassata of the Associated Press: The first immigration bill in...
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Latin Times: Immigration Reform 2014: House GOP Leaders Moving Bill To Axe Immigrant-Outreach Job By David Iaconangelo Fusion: Menendez Challenges Obama to Stop Deportations By Jordan Fabian Politico: 2 senators seek fewer deportations By Seung Min Kim The Hill: House Dem calls Obama ‘deporter in chief’ By Pete Kasperowicz...
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During last evening’s 2014 NCLR Capital Awards dinner, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and NCLR President Janet Murguía both made impassioned pleas to President Obama to roll back the deportation machinery that rips families apart on a daily basis. Without a doubt, this will increase pressure on the Obama Administration...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) spent time on the House floor today speaking about “Obama Derangement Syndrome,” defined by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post as an affliction in which “the president’s opponents are so determined to thwart him that they will reverse long-held views if they believe it will...
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The Obama budget proposal is out, and it would like to reduce the detention bed mandate by about 10%. DHS is currently required to fill 34,000 immigrant detention center beds every day, regardless of what current immigration levels are or what detained immigrants have done (or not done) to get...
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This week, Speaker Boehner identified immigration reform as one key issue that he and President Obama agree on. “He wants to get it done,” Boehner said. “I want to get it done. But he’s going to have to help us in this process.” Um, what? As Steve Benen at...
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This week, we’ve written a number of pieces on the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case of anti-immigrant ordinances in Farmers’ Branch, Texas and Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Deprived of further opportunities for appeal, these anti-immigrant laws have effectively reached the end of their journey, after the towns that...
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