Progressives Launching State-Focused Group To Combat ALEC
Progressives Launching State-Focused Group To Combat ALEC.
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Here #39;s Why Dems Lost big, UK May End Free Speech, Proof Progressives Think You are Stupid
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The Congressional Progressive Caucus is laying out what it wants from President Barack Obama on immigration executive action, including shielding 7 million undocumented immigrants from deportation a larger figure than the White Houses expected plans would cover.
Democratic Reps. Raul Grijalva of Arizona and Keith Ellison of Minnesota say in a memo that Obama should act swiftly and comprehensively. We should not force deserving individuals and families to wait any longer.
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The 7 million figure comes from a pair of calculations by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington that focuses on immigration.
(From POLITICO Magazine: No surrender on immigration)
About four million undocumented immigrants could be shielded from deportations if Obama extended his executive action to parents or spouses of U.S. citizens, green card holders, and young immigrants whose deportations have been deferred under a 2012 Obama program. An additional 3 million could come with various changes to that 2012 directive, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, that would broaden the number of immigrants eligible for that program. One example is getting rid of age limits under DACA to qualify, an immigrant must have been younger than 31 as of June 15, 2012 under current requirements.
But Grijalva and Ellison want the administration to consider other factors as well. For instance, the CPC leaders believe that immigrants who wouldve qualified for legalization under a Senate-passed immigration last year should qualify, as well as immigrants who have lived here for three or more years and regularly employed workers.
The program should take into consideration those aspiring citizens who have contributed to their communities and have established a strong work history, regardless of familial ties, Grijalva and Ellison said.
(Also on POLITICO: The GOP plan for Lynch: It's all about immigration)
Obama has pledged to act unilaterally on immigration by the years end, after delaying the executive action under pressure from Senate Democrats anxious about losing their majority.
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A Senate aspirant in Benue North-East senatorial district of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Andrew Ayabam, has said if elected in 2015, he will seek answers to what he calls the heartless and senseless military invasion of Zaki Biam in 2000.
Ayabam, who said this at a news conference in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, while making a public declaration to run for the Senate seat, added that the APC would coast to victory in the state and Nigeria in 2015.
He said, I seek to go to the centre to engage Nigeria on why my people could be so pitilessly neglected, marginalised and indeed dehumanised.
I will seek answers to all issues of our marginalisation, including why Nigeria has neither found it worthy to apologise nor compensate us for the heartless and senseless military invasion of Zaki Biam, where hundreds of our people were killed and scores of villages destroyed.
For us, we are in Nigeria to stay. We have no other country to call our own; we must certainly remain here to salvage Nigeria. However, we will not allow our people to be used as Guinea pigs in senseless military invasions and meaningless experimentation in the art of political deprivation.
The former revenue boss in the state under Governor Gabriel Suswam maintained that he had all it takes to defeat either Chief Barnabas Gemade or Suswam that might emerge the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the Senate contest.
He said, In that conviction, I also realised that the only way to rescue my people and indeed Nigeria is to team up with progressives and all men of conscience to chase out the PDP.
Ayabam, who regretted that despite the contributions of the senatorial district to the development of the country, it still lacked federal presence.
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Barely a week after Democratic candidates suffered a statewide beating at the polls, Moral Monday leader Rev. William Barber will deliver a Nov. 13 pep talk to progressives in Asheville.
Organizers of the event are touting it as an opportunity to re-energize as Dr. Barber contextualizes the recent election, according to a Facebook post promoting the speech. They also write that Barber, who heads the North Carolina NAACP, will outline the next steps for the Forward Together Movement, which included a campaign from several local organizations this year to rally progressives to the polls.
Although Democrats swept races in Buncombe County, statewide the GOP maintained supermajorities in the General Assembly and toppled Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.
Organizers say the Nov. 13 event is nonpartisan and the Forward Together Movement is not bound by any political party, and can work with anyone who is serious about moving our state forward and not backwards. In the Facebook post they urge people to attend to support and celebrate the victories here in Buncombe and to reflect on the changes that did not happen.
Barber will speak at the First Congregational Unitarian United Church of Christ in downtown Asheville at 20 Oak Street. The event begins at 5 p.m.
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