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Running out of options to avoid a collision course with a 1994-like Congressional disaster, left-of-center Democrats are desperately challenging Republicans over the volatile issue of illegal immigration. The puzzle piece fitting most prominently into their strategy at this point is California, where immigration is the hottest issue since the era
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Political theater literally arrived at Washington DC thanks to a free comedic act from faux news man Stephen Colbert last week. And if there’s anyone to thank for Colbert’s appearance on Capitol Hill regarding immigration policy, it would be Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), from California’s 16th congressional
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While an immigration amendment that would have granted a path to citizenship for illegal aliens up to the age of their early 30’s was killed largely by solid Republican opposition, it should be noted that such opposition was aided by “no” votes of three Democrats. Namely, Sens. Blanche Lincoln
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As the DREAM Act is expected to take center stage today in a defense appropriations bill, there’s been one particular fact both underreported and even omitted from some public discourse. While the immigration amendment is primarily being pushed as a pathway to citizenship for illegal minors in the states,
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In a major effort to pass some sort of immigration reform legislation before the November midterms, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has attached a controversial piece of immigration legislation as a rider to a defense appropriations bill expected to be voted upon next week. While it’s not an
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California would be one of the last places expected to be the site of a major Tea Party rally; yet such a rally took place in Sacramento over the weekend. The Sacramento rally was one of several across the country that also included others in St. Louis and Washington DC.
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Between 2007 and 2009, the Great Recession appears to have discouraged illegal immigrants from flowing into the US, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center study. “The annual flow of unauthorized immigrants into the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it
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Gov. Jan Brewer, signer of Arizona’s immigration law, is finding herself in some deep water due to her recent mishaps. Just this past week, the Arizona governor embarrassed herself in her first gubernatorial debate. Furthermore, some believe this could very well weaken the case for the necessity of an
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The Tea Party could make a big impact in Congress, unless rival political factions successfully paint the largely independent-minded voter movement as being driven by racism in the controversy surrounding illegal immigration. The liberal leaning Huffington Post wrote in August that Tea Party activists held a rally in support of
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Over the weekend, 47 years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr. shook the conceptions of race in the United States at the Lincoln Memorial, Latino immigration activists boarded buses from California to Arizona in an attempt to mobilize the Latino vote against the Republican Party. The effort, mounted
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As the U.S. ponders what ultimate course of action to take on immigration policy, perhaps it can take a lesson from its neighbors across the pond who have grappled with imposing an immigration cap next year. The Guardian of London reports that the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
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One of the highlights in news publications covering this past weekend’s State GOP convention is the California Republican Party’s refusal to embrace Arizona’s immigration law as a legitimate approach in dealing with the nation’s “broken” immigration system. The Washington Independent writes, “The party skipped over a