05/02/13 New polling from the New York Times/CBS News finds that “83 percent of respondents said they supported a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants already in the country illegally, as long as certain requirements — like paying fines and back taxes, passing a criminal-background check and learning English — were met.”  Only 14 [...]
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05/02/13 New York Times: Failure of Gun Legislation Shadows Immigration Bill By Jennifer Steinhauer Associated Press: Obama To Pitch Immigration Overhaul In Mexico Washington Post: Immigration to be part of Obama’s trip to Mexico By Zachary Goldfarb and Nick Miroff Washington Post (The Fix): Why is immigration going so much better for Obama than the budget? [...]
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05/01/13 Fresh off their success calling out Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and his longtime failure to support immigration reform, Cesar Vargas and the crew at DRM Capitol Group are now going after Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).  Teaming up with Alabama DREAMer Victor Palafox, Palafox and Vargas are taking to Sessions’ home state paper (the largest online [...]
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05/01/13 We have discovered the quickest, most effective way for you to influence Congress and help pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million Americans currently living in the US without papers. Writing a letter to the editor is the most effective way for you to reach your member of Congress.  We’ve created a tool that makes sending these letters simple [...]
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05/01/13 Check out this great Storify from Reform Immigration FOR America: [View the story "May Day 2013" on Storify]
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05/01/13 One desperate tactic in the playbook of those who oppose immigration reform has been to try and split the coalition of supporters, by pitting immigrants and African Americans against each other.  Nativists have tried time and time again to paint the specter of immigrants taking jobs away from African Americans, despite high-profile leaders like the [...]
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05/01/13 Now that the process of immigration reform is in full swing (markup for the Senate bill will start next week, and a House bill is expected soon), the anti-immigrant nativists have been out and about trying to kill the bill any way they can.  The Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigrant “think tank” started by [...]
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05/01/13 Yesterday, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) stated that the best arguments to convince his Republican colleagues to support immigration reform were political in nature: “if we don’t do this, we can’t begin the conversation with our Hispanic voters, and all you have to do is the math.  Do the math on the growth of the Hispanic [...]
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05/01/13 The Hill: Advocates dig in for immigration fight By Russell Berman Politico: Marco Rubio: Gang of Eight’s immigration bill can’t pass the House By Seung Min Kim Los Angeles Times: John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger talk immigration reform at USC By Cindy Chang Huffington Post: John McCain On Immigration: Republicans More Swayed By Politics Than ‘Better [...]
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04/30/13 The following is a cross-posted press release from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Immigrant Justice Network (IJN), Mi Familia Vota (MFV), National Immigrant Law Center (NILC), and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB): As the Senate Judiciary Committee begins work to amend the Senate immigration reform bill, leaders of national [...]
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04/30/13 Yesterday, speaking with New Orleans radio talk show host Garland Robinette, Mark Krikorian, head of the anti-immigrant think tank Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and the intellectual author of the “self-deportation” strategy, offered a fresh reminder why Latino voters have rejected candidates and parties who listen to him. According to a transcript and recording of [...]
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04/30/13 Cross-posted at Left in Alabama: Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected Alabama’s appeal to consider the state’s 2011 “show me your papers” anti-immigration law, formally known as HB 56.  As a refresher, Alabama’s anti-immigrant law made international news for its Draconian “self-deportation” provisions, including targeting the immigration status of schoolchildren. From a [...]
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04/30/13 Cross-posted from Laws.com After many months of bargaining and compromise, the so-called “Gang of Eight”, a bipartisan group of senators, has come up with legislation that promises to genuinely reform our immigration system. This legislation would tighten border security even further, expand legal immigration for the next 10 years, award more visas based on professional [...]
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04/30/13 New York Times: Immigration Splits Senator From Mentor By Ashley Parker USA Today: Tech companies driving the lobbying on immigration By Fredreka Schouten and Alan Gomez Laws.com: America’s Voice Education Fund and the Debate on Immigration Reform Voxxi: Deferred action: 99.5 percent of requests approved? USCIS refutes claim By Griselda Nevarez Huffington Post: House Immigration [...]
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04/29/13 The immigration world is still waiting to see what House Republicans will do with an immigration bill on their side of the Hill, and Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) has already indicated that he wants to move House legislation in pieces.  Greg Sargent writes in the Washington Post today about the motives behind [...]
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04/29/13 Cross-posted at Left in Alabama A lower court’s ruling striking down most of Alabama’s HB 56 law will stand, we learned when the Supreme Court announced it would not not hear the state’s appeal to revive its worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law. It was two years ago that Alabama passed HB 56, a horribly strict “self-deportation” law that chased immigrants out [...]
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04/29/13 Voxxi (Opinion): Some Republicans stuck in the past when it comes to immigration reform By Lynn Tramonte NBC Latino: Graham: Economy will “fall apart” without immigration reform By Sandra Lilley and Lori Montenegro Arizona Republic: Reform tied to immigrant taxes By Dan Nowicki PolicyMic: Immigration Reform 2013: House Republicans Are Playing Partisan Politics Instead Of Doing [...]
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04/26/13 Cross-posted at Burnt Orange Report If there’s such a thing as a GOP demographic doomsday clock, it’s ticking down to the day when Latino voters turn Texas blue and the Republicans cease winning national elections.  A new post at The Hill from columnist Brent Budowksy argues that that day will come much, much sooner if [...]
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04/26/13 Cross-posted at Burnt Orange Report Today, The Houston Chronicle published a searing op-ed from Cesar Vargas of the DREAM Action Coalition, which targeted Texas Senator John Cornyn on immigration. At America’s Voice, we consider Cornyn to a big hypocrite on immigration, so big of a hypocrite that we even gave him an award for it. You’ll like this [...]
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04/26/13 Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the ninth in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.”  Each week, a different and diverse group of speakers shares the latest information on the players, politics, legislation and other developments in the debate in Washington and around the nation. Moderated [...]
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04/26/13 Cross-posted at the Hill: The first 100 days of President Obama’s second term has already delivered more progress on immigration reform than the 1,000-plus days of his first term. The first four years were dominated by Republican obstruction, Democrats’ inability to deliver on their pro-reform promises and the Obama administration’s record deportations. This term, thanks [...]
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04/26/13 The Hill (Opinion): Look to the next 100 days for historic breakthrough on immigration reform By Frank Sharry Washington Post: House conservatives to push own immigration agenda By David Nakamura and Ed O’Keefe Los Angeles Times: House Republicans offer piecemeal approach on immigration By Lisa Moscaro The Hill: Judiciary to start piece-by-piece approach to immigration [...]
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04/26/13 During a week in which House Republicans announced a plan to do immigration legislation piecemeal and some Senate Republicans, led by Jeff Sessions and Chuck Grassley, continue to insist that we must slow down immigration reform, Gang of 8 members Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) appeared at a Christian Science Monitor [...]
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04/26/13 Cross-posted at Daily Kos. This was a big week in anti-immigrant ranting for Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-AL), the leader of the “Gang of Hate.” It’s becoming more and more clear that Sessions is on a mission to defeat immigration reform. You might even call it an obsession. At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier [...]
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04/25/13 The Senate Gang of 8 immigration bill has been released, a number of hearings have been held, and markup is scheduled to start in a few weeks.  Meanwhile, the strength of the pro-immigration reform movement continues to demonstrate its power–and the movement is growing every day. This morning, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform–who [...]
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04/25/13 In 2010, NCLR found that 43% of immigrants who have the drive and commitment to become fully naturalized citizens cannot due so simply because they do not have the money for it. For months, we’ve been fighting for an inclusive pathway to citizenship for the 11 million aspiring Americans currently without documentation. So if we [...]
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04/25/13 House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) today announced that his committee will introduce a series of immigration bills staring with a mandatory E-Verify bill and an expanded guest worker program for agribusiness.  The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: Rep. Goodlatte knows full well there’s a broad bipartisan bill [...]
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