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Philly.com Janet Napolitano Laments Non-Passage Of DREAM Act In Farewell Speech Fox News Latino While she said she regretted the failure of the DREAM Act to become law, she touted the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which halts deportations for many young immigrants who would have benefited from the DREAM Act. Napolitano chides Congress for failing to act on immigration reformTribune-Review Departing DHS secretary warns of 'serious' cyber-threat, devastating natural ...RT (blog) Napolitano praises US response in farewell speechIdaho State Journal all 242 news articles » View the full article

Joe Biden’s New Policies For Asylum, DACA And Legal Immigration ForbesView the full article

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Washington (CNN) -- House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday rebuked Iowa GOP colleague Rep Steve King for controversial comments on undocumented immigrants, calling the remarks "deeply offensive and wrong," and acknowledged the fallout makes it harder to reach a deal on immigration reform. King, when discussing a proposal to give citizenship to the children of undocumented workers in an interview last week with Newsmax, suggested many of them were drug smugglers. "For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds--and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert," King asserted. Democrats immediately denounced the comments and Boehner released a written statement with similarly sharp criticism two days ago. But at a time when there is mounting pressure on House Republicans to address an overhaul of immigration policy, Boehner deliberately repeated the message before TV cameras at his weekly press conference. "There is no place in this debate for hateful or ignorant comments from elected officials," Boehner said. He added that what King said "does not reflect the values of the American people or the Republican Party. We all need to do our work in a constructive, open and respectful way." Boehner and many other House Republicans are now backing a proposal that would allow children brought into the United States illegally by their parents to obtain citizenship. But King isn't backing off. He doubled down on Thursday, maintaining his remarks were based on facts. "If people were offended, were they offended by the number or my choice of the fruit? And, if so, what's offensive about the number or that? I can't imagine why it's racist and if I offended anybody it was drug smugglers and it doesn't trouble me to offend drug smugglers. If I intended to offend anybody that would be the group," King said. After speaking on the House floor, King didn't seem phased by Boehner's comments. "We know that the speaker responds to criticism in the press." King said, adding that he would have preferred Boehner to approach him personally before speaking to the media. Many House Republicans quickly recognized the potential political damage King's remarks could have on the GOP as the party works to regain ground with Hispanic voters after losing badly among the group in the 2012 election. California Republican Rep Jeff Denham, who represents a district with a significant Latino population, concurred with Boehner in a tweet. "@SpeakerBoehner is right. Rep. King's comments are hurtful & disrespectful. Lone member's prejudicial statements won't derail progress!" The American Action Network, a GOP leaning group, released a poll on Wednesday that found a majority of Republicans in King's district backed a comprehensive approach to immigration reform. Without naming King, Dan Conston, the group's spokesman, sent a statement stressing the public support for legislation. "Hopefully with knowledge like this, the most ardent opponents of reform will pause to consider what they can support and how they can play a constructive role in fixing this broken immigration system." King brushed off the poll, and suggested the questions were crafted to get a specific response. He admitted his office has been inundated with calls since the public coverage of his comments, and said to date the reaction has been slightly more negative, with 55 opposed and 45 supporting his position. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/25/politics/boehner-king-immigration/index.html

Mississippi Governor Joins AZ Governor-DACA DL Ban On 08/22/2012, the Governor issued Executive Order banning state benefits including driver licenses to DACA approved DREAMers. Domino effects keep spreading. Source: http://immigration-law.com/

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Hopefully Governor Brown signs it! A bill against ICE Secure Communities. WASHINGTON -- A bill that would drastically reduce California's participation in a key immigration enforcement program passed through the state Assembly Friday and will now head to the desk of Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown. Under the bill, called the TRUST Act, California would no longer cooperate fully with Secure Communities, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program meant to net criminals who are undocumented immigrants. Secure Communities hasn't worked as hoped by officials in California and elsewhere, and the California is trying to mitigate the negative effects of the program, including high costs and concerns that it prevents immigrants from coming forward to report crime. The TRUST Act would mandate that California law enforcement offices ignore requests from ICE to hold immigrants they otherwise wouldn't. Secure Communities uses fingerprints taken upon arrest to find undocumented immigrants. When there is a match, ICE asks officers to hold the immigrant for two days -- but that often is extended. A recent report based on data from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department found immigrants were held based on ICE requests for about 20 days longer than was typical, at a cost of more than $26 million a year. The TRUST Act passed through the Assembly in May, but came back for a final vote after it passed the Senate with some amendments. The Assembly approved it Friday in a 48 to 26 vote. It's not yet clear, however, whether the bill will become law. Brown hasn't given any indication about his views on the matter, and his office declined to comment Friday since the legislation is not yet on his desk. Other California Democrats are more vocal in their support of the TRUST Act. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa repeatedly spoken out about the need for the bill, and told HuffPost in an interview earlier this month that he hoped the program would be reformed nationwide to match the bill's changes. "When Secure Communities was first established, I thought it was established on those grounds" targeting felons, he said. "As time went on, we've taken the position that it hasn't been working the way it was proposed." Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who first introduced the TRUST Act, applauded the passage of the bill. "This is a bill that speaks to humanity," he said in a statement. "It prevents unjust treatment of productive Californians, while allowing local law enforcement to continue to focus on dangerous criminals." For anybody interested here's the video of the debate on the Assembly floor. The video is here at time marker: 25:34: http://www.calchanne.../2012-archive/ Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/trust-act-bill-california-governor_n_1829125.html

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will resign from her position on Friday, a U.S. government source told Reuters. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security could not be immediately reached for comment. Source: http://news.yahoo.com/homeland-security-chief-set-resign-source-140653896.html Thoughts??

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Monday that it would be a "big mistake" to chase more 70 or more votes on immigration reform in the Senate. The second-ranking Democrat in the Senate said both sides have already made concessions, and expressed worry that making more concessions on border security to win over Republican votes could weaken the bill. Asked whether the bill needed more than 70 votes, Durbin responded with a flat: "No." "We need 60 votes by the Senate standards," he said. "The more the better though. I just don’t want to compromise the values in this bill," he told CBS. Durbin went on to stress that there had been concessions and negotiations on both sides before the bill was first unveiled. "We worked for four months, had 30 minutes, [sens.] John McCain [R-Ariz.], Chuck Schumer [D-N.Y.], Lindsey Graham [R-S.C.], Marco Rubio [R-Fla.], myself, Bob Menendez [D-N.J.], we worked all this time to come up with a basic framework and if we’re going to abandon this now to pick up 2, 3, 4 or 5 votes, that’s a big mistake," Durbin said. The senators he named are all in the bipartisan group that crafted the bill. Those pushing to win more GOP votes argue a big vote in the Senate would increase pressure on the House to take up the legislaiton. The delicate Senate negotiations have been strained in recent weeks as Rubio (R-Fla.) has sought to push the bill farther to the right, in hopes of gaining cover with his base and securing more Republican votes. Durbin suggested that Republicans could pay a political cost if their maneuvering scuttled the bill. "There’s no question in my mind that American is changing, more diverse, the voters are changing, and they’re going to look to those parties and candidates who are receptive to this change," Durbin said. "If your party candidate for president is saying leave, as in self-deport, it really says well you don’t care much for immigrants. And people say, well that means the Hispanic vote." Still, Republicans remain optimistic about the bill rallying support within the party. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that he believed the bill would get the large majority. "I think we are going to get plus 70 votes” in the Senate, said Graham, predicting a “political breakthrough, that Congress is going to pass immigration reform.” Source: http://thehill.com/video/senate/305897-durbin-we-dont-need-70-votes-for-immigration-reform

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) has set an end-of-month deadline for Senate passage of immigration reform, giving the chamber three weeks to debate legislation on the floor. “We are going to finish the bill before the July 4 recess,” Reid said Thursday. “We need to finish this bill and we’re going to do it as quick as we can.” Reid added that the issue has already been thoroughly discussed in committee. “There are very few pieces of legislation that we’ve had come to the floor in recent years that has been [as] thoroughly discussed, debated and presented as this,” he said. Reid has met with Republicans and told them they have already had weeks to review the legislation during the Judiciary Committee’s markup last month. “Everybody knows pretty much what this bill is about,” he said. “No one can complain about not having had time to read the bill. They’ve read it, they’ve studied it and there’s no reason we can’t finish this debate quickly.” The July recess will begin after the last week of June. Senate Democrats met Thursday afternoon to discuss their strategy for handling amendments to the legislation, President Obama’s top domestic initiative. The Senate will vote to end debate on the motion to proceed to the immigration bill at 2:15 pm Tuesday and then vote to proceed at 4 p.m. Members of the Senate Gang of Eight, which drafted the bill, have set a goal of passing it with 70 votes, but Reid is more focused on clearing the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a filibuster. Reid downplayed speculation that Democrats must accept an amendment by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) strengthening border security in order to push the bill to final passage. Rubio is a member of the Gang of Eight. “We are interested in getting as many votes as we can and getting as many votes as we can does not depend on any one amendment,” he said. “I am totally convinced that there is tremendous momentum to get this legislation passed no matter what people are saying on the record, off the record.” Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the lead Democratic sponsor of the bill, said “the momentum is getting stronger every day,” citing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, agribusinesses, evangelicals and the high-tech community. He said those groups are contacting undecided senators to urge them to support the bill. Schumer said Democrats are willing to strengthen the border-security provisions but do not want to give anti-immigration opponents a chance to block the path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants in the country illegally. Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/303961-reid-wants-senate-to-finish-immigration-before-july-recess

WASHINGTON – The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to resume the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children, the first immigration-related vote in either chamber of Congress this year and a measure of the daunting challenge facing supporters of a sweeping overhaul of existing law on the subject. The party-line vote of 224-201 was aimed at blocking implementation of President Barack Obama's 2012 election-year order to stop deportations of many so-called DREAM Act individuals. Democrats on the House floor reacted with boos when the provision was added to a routine spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The vote was largely symbolic, since the administration has threatened to veto the overall legislation on budgetary grounds. It nevertheless stood as a stark warning from conservatives who dominate the ranks of the Republican House majority about attempts in the Senate to grant a chance at citizenship to an estimated 11 million immigrants residing in the country illegally. And the White House reacted sharply, saying the House-passed measure would affect "Dreamers" who are "productive members of society who were brought here as young children, grew up in our communities, and became American in every way but on paper." Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said in a statement that the vote prohibits the administration "from implementing executive amnesty" without congressional action. "Bipartisan support for my amendment is the first test of the 113th Congress in the House of Representatives on immigration. My amendment blocks many of the provisions that are mirrored in the Senate's `Gang of Eight' bill. If this position holds, no amnesty will reach the President's desk," he said. The vote took place as Senate leaders set Friday for the opening of debate on White House-backed legislation that would create a chance at citizenship for those in the country unlawfully, at the same time it takes steps to assure the borders are secure against future illegal immigration. The measure was drafted by a bipartisan group of eight senators, then approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last month on a vote of 13-8. It also creates a new low-skilled guest-worker program, expands the number of visas available for high-tech industry workers and reorders the system for legal immigration that has been in place for decades. Debate is expected to consume weeks on the Senate floor as lawmakers of differing views try to change it more to their liking. Notably, Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who was part of the group that drafted the legislation, is saying he wants changes before he will support it on final passage. His office did not respond to a request for reaction to the House vote. In the House, 221 Republicans and three Democrats voted for King's proposal, while 195 Democrats and six Republicans opposed it. "I can't believe they just did that," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a leading supporter of the DREAM Act. Ana Avendano of the AFL-CIO, said in a statement that King and his allies are playing to "a dwindling base of anti-immigrant Republican primary voters. We hope and expect that the leadership of the Republican party will understand that this is not only abhorrent policy but suicidal politics." Speaking to a group of reporters, a White House official, Cecilia Munoz, said, "If part of what is driving this debate is a recognition, particularly on the Republican side, that they need to do better with the Latino community, this is really not the right way." Obama announced a new policy in June 2012 that puts off deportation for two years for many of those brought to the United States as children, specifically if they were under 16 at the time and are no older than 31 now. They also must be in school, graduated from high school or have served in the military and have no criminal record. The order offers relief from deportation from many young immigrants who would be covered by the so-called DREAM Act, which has repeatedly failed in Congress. Democrats argued vociferously against King's proposal when it was debated Wednesday evening. "We should not hold children responsible for the actions of adults and their parents. We should give them an opportunity," said Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat who has been involved in a sputtering attempt to produce a compromise immigration bill in the House. Those efforts were dealt a potentially fatal blow on Wednesday, when Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, announced he was leaving the group because of a dispute over health care. House GOP leaders have not yet announced a plan for considering immigration legislation, although it appears likely that several smaller bills will be considered rather than a comprehensive measure that covers the elements that are combined into one in the Senate. One of them, introduced during the day by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., permits state and local authorities to enforce federal immigration laws. There is little, if any, support among the GOP rank and file for a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million or so immigrants estimated to be living in the United States illegally, although there appears to be some sentiment to allow many such individuals to remain in the country. Speaker John Boehner has said privately he hopes to have committee action complete by the end of June, with a vote in the House by the end of July. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/06/house-votes-to-resume-deporting-young-dream-act-immigrants/#ixzz2VTjNjslu

Durbin himself created a petition to ask Brewer to reverse her policy, and more than 1000 signatures have been collected: This is from an email, so I don't have a URL source. Please check it out anyway....and sign the petition.

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