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House Republicans Hijack Serious Immigration Reform

June 21, 2006 During the last election cycle, conservative Republicans implemented a strategy to motivate their base to vote on election day:  find the social issue that the base is currently hot about and make the entire election turn on that particular issue.  In...

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House Continuing Immigration Reform Delay Tactics

June 16, 2006 Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives continues to delay the start of a conference to reconcile immigration bills passed by the House and Senate.  The revenue technicality previously discussed was the first volley; Speaker Dennis...

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In Immigration Debate, Stick to the Facts

June 11, 2006 I was heartened to read of the Missouri legislature's approach to the issue of immigration in their state in Friday's Kansas City Star.  In light of the national debate, the state's House of Representatives created a commission to investigate the actual...

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TN Senate Candidates Playing Politics with Immigration

June 10, 2006 An article in Nashville's City Paper described yesterday how Tennessee's U.S. Senate candidates are playing politics with the immigration debate.  In their latest effort to "out-right" each other, Republican candidates Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary have...

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Polls Suggest Immigration Restrictionists a Vocal Minority

June 9, 2006 The Christian Science Monitor reports that polls conducted by the Republican National Committee suggest that all the anti-immigrant noise we hear comes from a very vocal minority.  The 6/9/06 article states that, "The RNC poll tested a number of messages...

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