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A Rubio 2016 blueprint, for all to see
It isn’t often that a presidential campaign blueprint comes packaged between covers and available in bookstores and online for all to see. But that’s the inescapable conclusion from looking through the pages of the book entitled, “2016 and Beyond,” by Republican pollster Whit Ayres. Ayres is one of his party’s leading analysts. He also happens […]
Read MoreHonoring America’s Foreign-Born Soldiers
Five Stories of Bravery and Patriotism Serving in the military has always been considered a patriotic and quintessentially American activity. And like so many things in America that have benefitted from immigration – from our cutting edge technology companies to our top-flight universities – our military owes much of its success to the contributions of […]
Read MoreRepublicans Hope To Avoid Mitt Romney’s Mistakes On Immigration
WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2011, as then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry was preparing to announce his run for the Republican presidential nomination, top aides to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney set about figuring out how to beat him. They found a potential weak spot: immigration. Perry had expressed some views, such as supporting in-state […]
Read MoreWhy Louisville Needs to Go Global
Recently, our region welcomed more than 170,000 visitors from around the country and the world for the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby. Every year during this time, we show the world the best of what Greater Louisville has to offer. While Derby is a grand show and source of pride for our region and […]
Read MoreWhy DAPA Applications Were Not Accepted by USCIS Today
Today should have been the day when millions of undocumented moms and dads of U.S. citizens could have claimed their chance to work legally and live in dignity in the United States, alleviated, at long last, from vulnerability to exploitation and the constant threat of deportation and family separation. What you should have seen when […]
Read MoreSessions wrong about immigration’s impact
Sen. Jeff Sessions wrote a recent op-ed for theWashington Post headlined “America needs to curb immigration flows.” He was not talking about illegalimmigration. He was talking about legal immigration. As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Immigration subcommittee, our senator’s view is significant. If there are good reasons to curb the flow of immigration to […]
Read MoreCourt Reportedly Set to Order End to Detention of Children in Unlicensed Family Facilities
In February, advocates went to court to argue that the government’s family detention centers violate the long-standing Flores v. Reno settlement agreement, which set minimum standards for the detention, release and treatment of children subject to immigration detention. In response, government attorneys claimed that the Flores settlement should not apply to children in family detention. […]
Read More2016 Presidential Candidates Weigh-In on President Obama’s Immigration Action
Immigration policy has become a hot topic as the 2016 Presidential primary picks up steam. It is no surprise that the issue of Presidential authority over immigration has taken center stage in recent weeks as Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush have all begun discussing their views around how far the President should have […]
Read MoreReports: Detention Doesn’t Deter Migrants and Refugees From Coming to United States
In 2009, the Obama Administration ended family detention at the infamous T. Don Hutto jail in Texas and cut the number of immigrants in family detention to less than a hundred. However, after the surge of Central American migrants last summer, the Administration reinstituted the appalling practice of family detention, with plans to detain 2,760 […]
Read MoreImmigrants in Illinois
One in seven Illinois residents is an immigrant, while another one in seven residents is a native-born U.S. citizen with at least one immigrant parent.
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