Raul Garcia, First Farm Worker to Run for U.S. Congress, Asks McCarthy Key Question: While We Wait for You on Immigration Reform, Who Should Be Harvesting America’s Food? Raul Garcia, a naturalized U.S. citizen and farm worker of 30 years, has had enough of the empty promises from his...
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We have long warned Republicans that their opposition to immigration reform will cost them dearly in the long run. But some advocates are also looking to make the topic an issue in the short run — for example, Raul Garcia, a farmworker in central California who has emerged as the...
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With observers trying to assess the political implications of President Obama taking executive action on immigration, here are three things to consider: Republicans will overreact and overreach, triggering a focus on a government shutdown and a push toward impeachment: As a range of stories highlighted yesterday, Republicans are already...
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Coffman Reveals He Has Zero Interest in Solving Immigration Issue, Making Executive Action from President the Only Solution Rep. Mike Coffman (R,CO-06) has spent the last year walking back his once declared support for immigration reform. His primary strategy for distracting voters on his flip flop has been to...
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Multichannel Electoral Program Will Reach 45K Voters Face-to-Face With Message of Republican Obstruction on Immigration Reform With the November midterm election fewer than three months away, and races in Colorado shaping up to be among the most competitive in the country, several of the organizations most involved in last...
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Today, the Latino Victory Project released Spanish and English-language ads in a multi-state effort to draw attention to House Republicans’ failure to enact immigration reform. In addition to the broadcast launch, digital ads will run in Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) district. The ads will criticize House Republicans for failing to...
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Big Media today has a fact-check on an allegation Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) made last week during a debate with Democratic challenger Andrew Romanoff, in which Coffman said that immigration bills cleared the House. Here’s the quote (@21:45): I think both parties have it wrong right now. I think on the left it’s,...
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This fall in Colorado, Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) is running for Senate against incumbent Democrat Mark Udall, in a state where the electorate is 13% Latino and an environment where Gardner and his House Republicans have done precisely nothing to push immigration reform forward. Today at the Denver Post, Democratic state Reps....
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New Fox News Poll Shows Voters Want a Path to Citizenship Over Status Quo By 3 to 1 Margin At yesterday’s first debate in Colorado’s competitive CD-6 race, Republican incumbent Mike Coffman told the audience that he did not support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. A new...
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Once Again Proving that Inaction is the Truly Radical Option In the wake of Republican obstruction and inaction on immigration reform in Congress, the case for President to take executive action continues to build and strengthen. And as new polling from Fox News underscores, people much prefer bold action...
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