Marco Rubio is trying to use his so-far unseen “DREAM Act-Lite” to attack the Obama Administration. He claims the Obama administration is calling advocates and telling them not to work with him. The clip below from MSNBC gives the Democrats’ version of the battle. If Rubio is serious, he needs to show that he...
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Marshall Fitz and Philip E. Wolgin of the Center For American Progress just released this analysis of Sen. Marco Rubio’s proposal to grant limited immigration status to some DREAMers: Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) plan to introduce a bill to provide legal status—but not citizenship—for undocumented youth ran into an obstacle when Speaker of the...
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Late yesterday, Florida Senator Marco Rubio met with three top Latino Democrats to talk about passing his watered-down version of the DREAM Act.  Rubio got together in a closed door meeting with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) and Rep.  Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.). Rubio’s plan is woefully inadequate, but after the meeting...
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  Mitt Romney told a private meeting of wealthy Republicans Sunday that he intends to support Sen. Marco Rubio’s “Fake DREAM Act”. Romney has had trouble convincing high-level donors that he is likely to unseat President Obama because of his alienation of Latino voters. Romney told the group that “We’re going to be able...
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Last week, Republicans rolled out a proposal for what critics are calling DREAM Act Lite. Florida Senator Marco Rubio is the point-man for a group of Senate Republicans concerned that their party’s attack on immigrants will lose them the Latino votes necessary for reelection. The proposal creates a temporary legal status for some undocumented...
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Hoping to gain at least a few Latino votes, the Republicans have begun floating an “alternatives” to the DREAM Act that a New York Times editorial says is A Dream Act Without the Dream. Here is the editorial in full: Republican politicians have overwhelmingly embraced an approach to immigration reform that offers only misery,...
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With the Republican Party doing dismally among the key Latino electorate, you might expect party leaders to make peace overtures to them. Instead, the most prominent Congressional Republican on immigration, Lamar Smith, came out today on Fox and attacked the DREAM Act, which is universally popular among Latinos. Smith head the Judiciary Committee of...
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Now that holidays and new year, and even the lunar Year of the Dragon have passed, we are gearing up for an exciting time with busy election cycles in 2012 and 2013.  I want to thank all the supporters of the New York State Immigrant Action Fund (NYSIAF.org) — all of you who have...
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DREAMers Across America, a national DREAM Act group, has written to Florida Senator Marco Rubio asking him to reverse his opposition to the DREAM Act. Here is their letter: Senator Rubio: We are here. We are in Arizona, a major Latino state and home of next week’s Republican presidential primary. We are in Florida,...
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The DRM Capitol Group, which provides advocacy services for DREAM Act students, sent us this sad commentary on the heartlessness of some political leaders: During a panel at the Arizona’s Emerging Latino Vote, an event held in Phoenix College aimed at empowering the Latino community in civic engagement, undocumented youth participated in order to address the...
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