This entire Congressional session, House Republicans have refused to take action on real immigration reform, preferring to vote multiple times in favor of ending DACA and deporting DREAMers. The latest of these votes came last week and the House Republican driving them has been super-extremist Rep. Steve King (R-IA). Since...
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A number of anti-immigrant “rallies” were held this week in response to children fleeing violence and coming to the US border. Below is a photo from the rally that Steve King attended in Council Bluffs, Iowa: (Here’s another photo from the same event.) We, of course, flashed back to this...
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Jun 18, 2014
Iowa Republican in Driver’s Seat Unless and Until House Republican Leadership Takes Action – And Soon Washington, DC – In an extended interview with the authors of the “The Way North” series from the New York Times, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) makes clear that he plans to drive the...
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Jun 6, 2014
“King of the House”: One Year Since Passing Amendment to Deport DREAMers, Steve King Still in Charge of Immigration in House America’s Voice Releases Timeline of King’s Most Memorable “Milestones” on Immigration On today’s Office Hours press call, labor leaders, immigration advocates and a DREAMer from Steve King’s district...
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the first time that House Republicans gave Steve King a vote to deport DREAMers. Trying to end DACA is pretty heinous — and it’s just one of the many extremist reasons why King has made headlines over the years. From the time that King called immigration...
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As we recently wrote, Republican leadership in the House has refused to schedule a vote on immigration reform — yet they continue to find time to let Rep. Steve King (R-IA) rant and rave against immigrants and offer up votes to go after them. Last June, the House passed a Steve King amendment...
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Watch out, Steve King. Another anti-immigrant hardliner in Iowa is rising, and adopting anti-immigrant positions King would be proud to call his own. Think Progress today covers a recent interview between Mickelson in the Morning, a local conservative radio program, and Brad Zaun, a current state senator running for...
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Instead of Pushing for an Immigration Reform that the Majority of Coloradans Support, Colorado Republicans All SupportAnother Extremist Measure from Fringe Congressman Steve King (R-IA) Denver, CO – While House Republicans continue to trot out weak excuses for not putting a bipartisan immigration reform bill to a vote, they...
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The House GOP gave Steve King yet another vote against DREAMers today. For those counting, this is the fourth such vote this session — and comes after the death of the ENLIST Act and after a whole year of inaction on immigration reform. Let’s be clear — it’s Speaker Boehner...
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Although House Republican leaders have thus far refused to schedule a vote on reasonable immigration reform, they continue to find time to let Rep. Steve King (R-IA) rant and rave against immigrants and offer up amendments to go after them. Last June, the House passed a Steve King amendment...
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