This morning, we highlighted an Arizona Daily Star editorial supporting the CIR ASAP bill recently introduced in the House, and encouraged the introduction of similar legislation. As we wrote last week, the death of the House Gang of 7 potentially presages an exciting new phase in this year’s fight for immigration...
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Last Friday, after a summer spent waiting for the House to take action on immigration reform, a slew of things happened at once: the House Gang of 7–a group which has repeatedly postponed the introduction of its long-awaited comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform bill–finally gave up and disbanded. And (in...
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The big news in immigration reform today was the dissolution of the House Gang of 7, which has been in negotiations for years on immigration legislation. While its contribution would’ve been welcome in the immigration reform debate, the group’s progress has been stalled for so long that it was about...
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Greg Sargent at the Washington Post’s Plum Line broke the story this morning that one bipartisan attempt to craft comprehensive immigration reform legislation in the House is dead. Here are excerpts from Sargent’s post: “It doesn’t appear that we’re going to move forward with the group of seven,” Dem...
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Goodlatte, House Leaders Talk Up Reform, but Where’s their Legislative Proposal? When is the Vote? For months now House leaders have been using similar talking points and sound bites when talking about immigration reform. However, they continue to fall short when it comes to actually putting their words into...
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Today at the Hill, United We DREAM Managing Director Cristina Jimenez wrote this piece on the SAFE Act–or as it’s also called, the unSAFE Act, and how it criminalizes immigrants rather than addressing the 11 million. Read the op-ed below or at this link: Supporters of humane immigration reform overwhelmingly...
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Bob Goodlatte’s SAFE Act–or as we alternatively call it, the unSAFE Act, the Safe-to-Profile Act, and the Arpaio Act–is a punitive and discriminatory piece of legislation that House Republicans are expected to take up this fall. Last week, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, led by Reps. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX) and...
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Boehner Better Not Be Relying on This Guy to Get Immigration Reform Done Is Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) trying to blow up immigration reform? Sure looks that way to us. At a town hall held in his Western Virginia district last evening, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)...
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House Republicans tried to make a gesture toward immigration reform—sort of—by holding an Immigration Subcommittee hearing on the KIDS Act yesterday, a bill that could grant DREAMers legal status but leave their parents vulnerable to deportation. Some Republicans on the Committee tried to say nice things about DREAMers, while...
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The following is a press release from United We DREAM: Broad Coalition Rejects Efforts That Would Lead to Second-Class Status for Millions As the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on immigrant youth, a diverse range of advocates for immigration reform joined DREAMers and Members of Congress to denounce...
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