GOP members booed for vote to deport DREAMers
To a chorus of boos from the gallery, House Republicans voted 224-201 on June 6th to approve an amendment that defunds the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The amendment, from Rep. Steve King (R-IA), undercuts the flexibility that allows the Department of Homeland Security to halt d.... |
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The price of immigration reform is steep
As the Senate prepares to vote on comprehensive immigration reform, it's important to remember that workers and immigrants have never made significant progress in gaining civil and human rights in the United States without a fight. The same is true today.
No political party or Gang of Eight can b.... |
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Who we are: Supporting our Dreamers
There are no stories that bring home the hope and optimism of immigration reform more than the stories of “Dreamers.” They are productive members of society, brought here as young children, who grew up in our communities and became American in every way but on paper.
And yet, for most of their .... |
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Where immigration reform stands now
Recently, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed out of committee an imperfect immigration bill that advocates say is the best shot they have to modernize the U.S. immigration system. The bill now heads to the Senate floor, where the Senate is expected to take it up during the week of June 10. A re.... |
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The promise of Mexico’s economic progress
By President Barack Obama
Between our two countries, we are some 430 million people. Tens of millions of Mexican Americans enrich our national life in the United States. Well over one million Americans live in Mexico. Every year, millions of tourists—most of them from the United States—visit this magnificent land. Ever.... |
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Music video inspires immigrant rights activists
Two immigrant mothers stood outside the downtown Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office holding a sign that read, “They have a Dream.” The women stood in silence -- they shouted no slogans and sang no chants. They didn’t need to. The lyrics to a song being performed live right in front o.... |
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Aspiring immigrant students share their stories
As the Senate debates bipartisan immigration reform legislation, the President and the Vice President hosted a meeting this week in the Oval Office with young immigrants, also known as DREAMers, as well as with the siblings and spouses of undocumented immigrants. The meeting was an important oppor.... |
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A Godsend to reproductive health clinics
Two posters hang on my office wall. One says, “Jesus never shamed women.” The other says, “Pray to end sidewalk bullying.”
I got the posters from Faith Aloud, (FaithAloud.org or 1-888-717-5010) a counseling and advocacy group that connects faith with reproductive justice. It’s an important connec.... |
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The path to citizenship remains intact
Having worked through a majority of its amendments, the Senate Judiciary Committee is in the final stages of marking up the bipartisan immigration reform bill. According to Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who led the process thoughtfully and fairly, the markup is likely to fini.... |
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Attacking all who support immigration reform
Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the anti-immigrant Center for Immigration Studies and the intellectual author of the GOP’s “self-deportation” policy, again made it clear last week that he’s out to kill immigration reform—and he’s attacking everyone who supports it.
Krikorian recently made h.... |
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Democracy at stake: When facts no longer matter
In what might be called something of a policy-political family squabble, the Heritage Foundation crossed signals with fellow conservatives by releasing a controversial, cost-benefit study this week related to comprehensive immigration reform. I wish this was a joking matter, but it’s a gravely ser.... |
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11 million reasons to reform our broken
During an interview with a Florida radio station about the dangerous working conditions for undocumented Latino workers, the story of one of the listeners who called in got us all on the edge of our seats.
He told us his job consisted of being lowered into a huge hospital waste collector to unclo.... |
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Immigration reform: Who's in and who's out
In December of 2001, an unknown law professor named Barack Obama lectured on the Civil War Amendments (the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments) to his law school students at the University of Chicago. As he explained how the Civil War Amendments redefined the social contract by transf.... |
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10 Ways immigration reform will fix broken system
For the past several months, four Senate Democrats—Chuck Schumer (NY), Dick Durbin (IL), Bob Menéndez (NJ), and Michael Bennet (CO)—have worked with four Senate Republicans—John McCain (AZ), Lindsay Graham (SC), Marco Rubio (FL), and Jeff Flake (AZ)—to develop a proposal to repair our nation’s fai.... |
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Economic effects of granting citizenship
The movement toward comprehensive immigration reform has accelerated significantly in recent months. A bipartisan “Gang of 8” in the Senate—a group of four Democratic senators and four Republican senators—released a framework for immigration reform on January 28, and the next day President Barack .... |
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