Feb 24, 2014
This weekend in Phoenix, United We Dream held its powerful annual Dream Congress, where more than 500 young leaders from around the nation came together to sing, rally, demonstrate, and solidify their immigration reform priorities for the year. The group made it clear that President Obama will be a...
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The Hill: Obama under pressure to slow illegal immigrant deportations By Mike Lillis and Justin Sink New York Times: Young Immigrants Turn Focus to President in Struggle Over Deportations By Julia Preston New York Times: G.O.P. Congressman in South Carolina Takes a Risk With a Foray Into Immigration By...
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Feb 21, 2014
Congressional Inaction, the Fallout for Families, and the Movement Behind Immigration Reform Relief is Coming, The Only Question is Whether it’s Administrative or Legislative Every day 1,00 immigrants, including people who would qualify for legal status under pending legislation, are deported. What should be done about it was the...
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In an interview with the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, Florida Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) states that immigration reform legislation that can attract bipartisan support and pass the House is nearly completed – calling into question whether and when House Republican leaders will schedule a vote. As Sargent characterizes...
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Immigration reform is an economic issue and a political issue — but it is also a moral issue, one that calls for compassion in the face of so many deportations, and action so that our broken immigration system stops separating families. That’s why polls have found people of faith...
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National and local editorial boards and faith leaders are calling on House Republican leadership to drop the excuses and move immigration forward, citing policy, political, and moral reasons: Wall Street Journal Criticizes “GOP Immigration Duck”: The Wall Street Journal editorial page has long advocated action on immigration reform. Today,...
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Washington Post: GOP senator: House could pass Senate immigration bill today By Aaron Blake The Economist: A plea for open doors Roll Call: Steve King: I Was Right and I Won’t Apologize By Emma Dumain The Hill: GOP lawmaker: Enough with the ‘comprehensive’ already By Pete Kasperowicz VOXXI: Immigration...
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Notorious anti-immigrant extremist Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is again making incendiary immigration comments, while crowing about his role in setting the congressional direction on immigration policy. Like nearly everything associated with Steve King, his latest remarks would be viewed as extreme and almost laughably out-of-touch except for one thing:...
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Immigration reform advocates in Washington state today are holding a voter registration drive, and using the opportunity to remind House leaders like Speaker Boehner and Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (their own member of Congress) that there is a demographic and electoral imperative for them to pass immigration reform. Immigration reform supporters...
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Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL) represents a district that is 18% Hispanic, that has been listed as one of the top districts in the country where the Latino vote will have the greatest impact. Last November, a poll found that 78% of all voters there support immigration reform with a path to citizenship. And yet —...
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