By Following Lead of Lamar Smith and Steve King on Immigration, Republicans Continue Down Self-Destructive Path Yesterday, in a near party-line vote, the House of Representatives approved an amendment by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) to the Homeland Security appropriations bill that would prevent the Department of Homeland Security from prioritizing immigration enforcement to focus...
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May 25, 2012
El congresista republicano de Iowa, Steve King, tiene una impresionante combinación de boca y pata cuando de hablar de los inmigrantes se trata. Siempre que dice algo al respecto, mete la pata. Y también tiene una gran debilidad de comparar a los inmigrantes con animales. En un evento de...
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Apparently, Republicans are having a hard time courting the Latino vote. We can’t understand why. Yesterday, anti-immigrant blowhard and vice-chair of the House Immigration Subcommittee Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was speaking to a crowd in Pocahontas, Iowa about how the US should be more selective about which immigrants it...
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith is holding yet another hearing on his proposal for mandatory E-Verify. A blog post by Dara Lind, program associate at America’s Voice Education Fund, highlights Smith’s strong reliance on the “experts” from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), an anti-immigrant think tank founded...
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You might remember E-Verify. It’s House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith’s pet project to singlehandedly boost the American economy by expanding regulation and costing hundreds of thousands of legal American workers their jobs. The bill stalled after it passed the House Judiciary Committee last fall, and it’s no more politically...
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Apr 4, 2012
If Mitt Romney wants a vice presidential running mate who will warm the hearts of conservatives, let there be no doubt: Marco Rubio is the guy. Spend a few minutes with Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and he'll tell you there are only two names Romney should consider: Rep....
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As we've been writing about all week, House Immigration Subcommittee Republicans like Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) hit a new low on Wednesday with their "Holiday on ICE" detention hearing, in which they spent some 90 minutes insisting that our nation shouldn't bother providing immigrant detainees with adequate health care.
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Feb 8, 2012
Does anyone (besides Mitt Romney) listen to the chair of the House Judiciary Committee anymore?
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As sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act, a.k.a. SOPA, Rep. Lamar Smith has put himself at the center of a massive controversy. Online activists realized that Smith is dangerous figure. Welcome to our world.
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