From NYT: There were hints in Mr. Obama’s speech of potential fault lines in the debate. He declared, for example, that there must be a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants “from the outset.” That would seem at odds with the assertion by some senators that citizenship must be tied…
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From NYT: President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week. Mr.…
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From ThinkProgress: The DREAM Act was first introduced as a bipartisan measure in 2001, but has languished in Congress ever since. Republicans have blocked the bill, which would help young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children gain citizenship. President Obama says he supports the policy and issued…
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From Time: Calling undocumented people “illegal immigrants” — or worse, “illegal aliens,” as Mitt Romney did in front of a largely Latino audience last week — has become such standard practice for politicians and the media, from Bill O’Reilly to the New York Times, that people of all political persuasions…
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From Migration Policy Institute: Earlier this week, some of the first applicants for a two-year reprieve from deportation, aka deferred action, were notified of their successful application by a much-anticipated text message. As more than 72,000 applications have already been submitted for the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals…
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Nathan Weber for New York Times New York Times: CHICAGO — Tens of thousands of young illegal immigrants waited excitedly in lines as long as a mile and thronged to information sessions across the country on Wednesday, the first day that a federal immigration agency began accepting applications for deportation…
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From ThinkProgress: Mitt Romney was asked five times whether he would continue Obama’s new policy on immigration, ending deportations for DREAM-eligible youth. Romney flatly refused to take a position. The transcript, via Politico: SCHIEFFER: “[W]ould you repeal [Obama’s immigration] order if you became president?” … ROMNEY: “This is something Congress…
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