Category Archive: Elections
One year ago, with the presidential race in full swing and proponents of self-deportation making the headlines, it would have been difficult to predict the extraordinary vote that took place Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Ten Democrats and three Republicans voted to pass S. 744 out of committee and send a comprehensive immigration bill …
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Backlogs, Business, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Demographics, Election 2012, Elections, Entrepreneurship, Family, Undocumented Immigration, Voting
by Matt Hershberger
February 8, 2013
In the current debate, immigration is often depicted as a Latino issue. This is partially because just over half of America’s foreign-born population is from Latin America and the Caribbean, and the current political climate around immigration is largely seen as being driven by Latino turnout for Democrats in the 2012 election. But this depiction …
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Congress, DREAM Act, Elections, Enforcement, Integration, Progressives, Reform, Republicans, Restrictionists, Rhetoric, Undocumented Immigration
by Matt Hershberger
January 24, 2013
Immigration reform is enjoying a resurgence of support in both parties, with groups from a variety of backgrounds coming out in favor of a range of changes to our current system. The most striking change may be the melting of opposition to a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/24/getting-to-a-citizenship-consensus/
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Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Deferred action, Deportation, DREAM Act, Election 2012, Elections, Mitt Romney, National Legislation, Progressives, Reform, Republicans, Restrictionists, SB 1070, Undocumented Immigration
by Matt Hershberger
December 21, 2012
In the beginning of 2012, the landscape of the immigration world looked much different. Pro-immigrant groups were coming off of a rough few years that saw the failure of the DREAM Act, a spike in deportations under President Obama, and the passage of several state-level restrictionist bills like Arizona’s infamous SB 1070 and Alabama’s HB …
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Business, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Deferred Action, Deportation, Election 2012, Elections, Faith, Family, National Legislation, President Obama, Progressives, Reform, Republicans, Rhetoric, Students, Undocumented Immigration
by Wendy Feliz
December 5, 2012
While some thought the immigration reform talk immediately after the election was just chatter, a series of convenings and speeches this week demonstrate that the topic of broad immigration reform is on plenty of tables. From DREAMers to President Bush, the call for reform goes on.
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/12/05/bibles-badges-business-and-bush-dreamers-make-immigration-reform-demands-known/
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Administration, Children, Congress, Deferred Action, Demographics, Deportation, DREAM Act, Election 2012, Elections, Immigration Law, Mitt Romney, National Legislation, Reform, Republicans, Restrictionists, Rhetoric, Students, Undocumented Immigration
by Mary Giovagnoli
November 28, 2012
If you follow immigration, but are returning from a month-long, news-free vacation, there’s only one conclusion you would draw from the legislation Republicans offered up this week in Congress: Mitt Romney must have won the presidential election. After all, the ACHIEVE Act, introduced yesterday by retiring Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), …
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Deferred Action, Deportation, DREAM Act, Election 2012, Elections, Mitt Romney, Nativists, Republicans, Restrictionists, State and Local Immigration Law, Voting
by Wendy Feliz
November 26, 2012
Despite a general consensus that adopting “self-deportation” as immigration policy helped sink Mitt Romney’s White House aspirations, the architect of this philosophy, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, isn’t ready to give in. Kobach doesn’t seem to care that most in his party have awakened to the fact that they are in a “death spiral” …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/26/kris-kobach-continues-digging-immigration-hole/
After cheers for football, some of the loudest shouting at many Thanksgiving feasts will come from political discussions gone awry. You might think that you can take it easy on the immigration issue this year, as the political chatter is now heavily in favor of immigration reform. But the blessings of conservative politicians and pundits …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/21/talking-turkey-on-immigration-2012/
The elections have produced nothing short of an immigration epiphany among some conservative commentators and politicians. Spurred by the electoral beating that Republican candidates suffered at the hands of Latino voters, pundits and lawmakers who once advocated an enforcement-only solution to the problem of unauthorized immigration are now talking about a pathway to legalization. While …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/15/conservatives-who-support-immigration-reform-also-need-to-rethink-border-security/
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Business, Children, DREAM Act, Economics, Election 2012, Elections, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Integration, State and Local Immigration Law, Students, Undocumented Immigration
by Wendy Feliz
November 13, 2012
While much of last week’s energy was focused on Latino voter turnout in the Presidential race— and the subsequent recognition that immigration reform was all but inevitable—there was another major victory for immigration policy that came out of Maryland. Voters in the state supported through referendum their legislature’s decision to provide in-state tuition to undocumented …
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