BuzzFeed Brews Special Edition: Immigration Summit
BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith moderates two conversations on the politics of immigration.
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Small Turnout For Anti-“Amnesty” Leaders In Congress
Immigration changes would be “far, far worse than Obamacare,” says King. And that’s saying something.
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Controversial “Pro-English” Group Launches Ad Campaign To Take Down Immigration Reform
Group tied to white nationalism enters immigration fray. Not what reform opponents needed after Heritage flap.
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Jason Richwine Resigns From Heritage Foundation
A spokesman for the D.C. think tank said Friday that the immigration expert “decided to resign” after week of controversy.
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Heritage Immigration Implosion Could Pull In More Anti-Immigration Scholarship
Conservatives face questions over the people they’re relying on to support their opposition to immigration reform. One says Hispanics have a lower IQ than “native white Americans.” Another says pregnant women shouldn’t be allowed in the US.
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Heritage Foundation Distances Itself From Comments On Hispanic IQ
The conservative group’s immigration expert, Jason Richwine, wrote in 2009 that immigrants have lower IQs than “white native” Americans. Heritage says that’s not their view. Another bad news cycle for immigration opponents.
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White House Brings Obama’s Optimism On Immigration Back Down To Earth
Obama says he’s “absolutely convinced” comprehensive reform will pass this year. Senior administration officials are optimistic too, but they note there’s still a House GOP.
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Jeff Flake Learns To Be Disliked
“Nothing like waking up to a poll saying you’re the nation’s least popular senator,” the Arizona Republican deadpanned on Facebook recently.
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Republican Immigration Nightmare Could Recur
In 2007, Republicans waged culture war on undocumented immigrants — and they’ve been paying for it at the ballot box ever since. Back in the bunker.
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John McCain: Immigration Won’t Gain Republican Votes
The Arizona Republican says immigration reform “won’t gain us a single Hispanic vote.” But it will at least put the GOP on a playing field.
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Marco Rubio’s Immigration Plan Sparks Conservative Civil War
“It’s a circular firing squad that Republicans are famous for, we’re eating our young,” Gabriel says. Rubio versus the Breitbartians.
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Marco Rubio’s Sunday Show Blitz Doesn’t Make The Nation’s Front Pages
If a politician making “the first major policy gambit of his career” is aided by seven Sunday talk shows, will America’s newspapers even care about it on Monday? The Sunday shows’ swift decline in relevance.
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Same-Sex Couples Missing From Immigration Debate — For Now
Although unlikely to be a part of the initial Senate bill, LGBT advocates are confident protections for same-sex couples will be added in committee.
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The Fashion Industry Loves Christine Quinn
The NYC mayoral candidate gets courted by Cosmo and has an upcoming feature in Vogue.
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Irish-American Lawmakers Back Comprehensive Immigration Reform
“It’s not an Irish cause, a Hispanic cause, a cause of any one group. It’s an American cause,” Rep. Joe Kennedy says.
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An Epic “Illegal Immigration” Debate Happened On Twitter
Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented immigrant, had a very civil Twitter discussion about immigration in the U.S. So civil, in fact, Vargas even offered to make Malkin dinner!
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Lawmakers Back Home Stay Mum On Immigration Reform
House Democrats and Republicans told their members to talk about the budget and spending cuts at home. Meanwhile, one of the most prominent legislative issues gets little attention.
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Obama Catches Up New Citizens On The State Of The Immigration Fight
“We are making progress but we’ve got to finish the job,” the president tells new Americans
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Is Hillary Clinton Too Conservative To Become President?
While she was at the State Department — and out of politics for four years — Clinton’s party was moving to the left, and fast. “Now that she’s unshackled by the boundaries of her office, she’ll step up to the mic,” says Singer.
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Battle Brews Over Labor Demands As Immigration Talks Enter Home Stretch
“Every time you make progress … the unions come in the next day and throw something else on the table. They keep moving the goal posts,” says a lobbyist.
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Obama: If You Like The Irish, You Should Love Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Story of Irish-Americans “yet another reason why we need to build an immigration system for the 21st century,” says the president.
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Alabama Republican Slams Closed-Door Bipartisan Immigration Efforts
Conservative senator laments the fact that interest groups are “meeting in secret with a small group of senators” to craft bill.
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Steve King: Undocumented Immigrants Are ‘Undocumented Democrats’
Representative from Iowa says a pathway to citizenship is Republican suicide.
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Marco Rubio Avoids Talk Of Immigration Reform In CPAC Speech
Florida Republican stuck to climate change and marriage equality. “Just because I believe states should have the right to define marriage in the traditional way does not make me a bigot,” he said to applause.
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Dick Morris Slams Paul Ryan’s Budget
“Why lose 10 years of elections to mess with those programs?” the pundit says of changes to Medicare.
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Tennessee Republican Slams Administration Over Release Of Undocumented Workers
Using sequestration as “an excuse,” Republican Rep. Diane Black charges.
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John McCain’s Town Hall Meetings Get Confrontational Over Immigration
Senator McCain faced a barrage of angry questions from constituents about immigration reform during two town hall meetings hosted in Arizona.
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Rand Paul Calls For Sequester And Immigration Reform In Tea Party Response To SOTU
Paul gives the second and less official of two Republican responses to the State of the Union.
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Marco Rubio Walks Fine Line On LGBT Rights
The Florida senator spoke Tuesday of support for nondiscrimination and allowing states to grant same-sex couples marriage rights. He still supports limiting marriage to one man and one woman, though, and did not commit to any action to advance LGBT equality.
