In what has become a week of tough stances and staunch rhetoric, President Obama is following up his Monday proposal for stricter rules for financial brokers on Wall Street and his Tuesday veto of the Keystone XL Pipeline with an exclusive town hall meeting in Miami, sponsored by Telemundo, to enlist his strong Latino base […]
Shutdown looms as Homeland Security funding expires later this week
February 24, 2015 By
With the Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rapidly approaching, fears of a government shutdown reverberate through the streets of Washington and the halls of Congress, where President Obama’s contentious executive actions on immigration have drawn the ire of Republicans who have been attempting to attach amendments to prevent the implementation […]
Comentarios from Maria: Republicans have dug their own political grave upon suspending the President’s executive actions
February 23, 2015 By
Republicans have gone from bad to worse. On Tuesday night, February 17, a federal judge in Texas, Andrew Hanen, responding to the demand initiated by the GOP against President Obama, decided to temporarily suspend the President’s executive actions that would have provided protection to five million undocumented immigrants just one day before the program was […]
Immigration Executive Actions halted: Obama, Latino groups react
February 18, 2015 By
The Obama Administration on Tuesday was forced to postpone the implementation of the President’s Executive Action that would have allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to begin applying for work permits and legal protection. Just one day before they were set to go into effect, Andrew Hanen, Federal Judge for the Southern District of […]
Congress creates obstacles for GOP Latino outreach, recruitment
February 12, 2015 By
Republican operatives tasked with attracting Latino voters just might have the hardest job in Washington. Party leaders, in their first month with a bicameral majority, have been attempting to get their members to soften their tone on undocumented immigration and engage in coalition building with a long-disillusioned Latino electorate to ignite a conversation around issues like […]
Immigration executive action delay “dampened” 2014 Latino electoral enthusiasm, report shows
February 11, 2015 By
Following the delay of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, the Democratic Party lost critical support from the Latino community during the 2014 midterm elections, according to polling data from Latino Decisions. All but one out of the ten U.S. Senate races deemed “critical” in November posted statewide Latino voting age populations of 6.1 percent […]
Comentarios from Maria: Discord and Dissonance in the new Republican Congress
February 2, 2015 By
Four weeks after assuming control of both chambers of Congress, the new Republican majority finds itself divided and in a state of chaos. Last week, members of the National Security Commission in the House of Representatives approved an extremist bill that seeks to secure and militarize the border with Mexico even more. Yet this week, […]
Obama Administration to begin taking DACA requests Feb. 18
January 30, 2015 By
In November of 2014, President Obama announced sweeping immigration reform in a series of executive actions to crack down on border crossings, prioritize deportation of felons not families, and require certain undocumented immigrants to pay taxes and undergo criminal background checks in order to stay in the U.S. temporarily without fear of deportation. Yesterday, it […]
Jeb Bush wants to ‘politely ask’ undocumented immigrants to leave U.S.
January 29, 2015 By
The 2016 presidential race is far from decided, but sound bites from presidential hopefuls have begun to trickle down the pipeline, stirring the pot and adding yet more speculation in an already-complicated field. Most recently, Jeb Bush, former Florida governor, brother of President George W. Bush and a widely considered frontrunner for the Republican presidential […]
House GOP moves closer to lawsuit for executive action on immigration
January 28, 2015 By
In a closed-door meeting with Congressional lawmakers Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner announced that his party is moving closer to a vote to authorize legal action against President Obama over his executive actions on immigration. While a course of action is yet to be finalized, the authorization language would allow the House to take steps […]
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