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Republican campaigns on Sunday evening pushed to take greater control over the party's chaotic debate process, agreeing to oversee negotiation of format with TV networks while relegating the Republican National Committee to focus on logistical matters. After the two-hour meeting, held at a Hilton in Alexandria, Va., top advisers to the GOP presidential campaigns - angry over how the first three debates have gone - said they were prepared to negotiate critical formatting issues with networks that will be broadcasting the future debates, a matter that until now had been overseen by the RNC. The campaigns said they were preparing...

House Republicans aren’t feeling pressure to tackle comprehensive immigration reform — not from the Senate, not from the business and religious communities and not from the many GOP-aligned groups backing the effort. From Karl Rove to Jeb Bush to Grover Norquist, an array of Republican heavyweights have called on the House GOP to embrace immigration reform. -snip- At the behest of the Speaker , the House is taking a more deliberate, methodical approach to immigration reform than the Senate and will begin in earnest with a special meeting of the Republican Conference on July 10.

According to the Communist Party USA, “the struggle for immigrant rights is a key component of the struggle for working class unity in our country today”. The Communists believe that the months ahead provide a great opportunity to extract big immigration changes from the Party’s “friend” Barack Obama. The coming months are crucial. This is a call for all progressive forces to become fully engaged at every level…The overwhelming Latino vote for President Obama has pushed the need for legislation forward, but there is a hard fight still ahead. As Congress begins to draft legislation, immigrant rights groups and the...

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More than anything, she wants to go to college. But as an illegal immigrant with a longstanding deportation order, May has little access to financial aid. If she scrapes the tuition together, there are no guarantees she will be allowed to stay in the country. Even with a college degree, she wonders, what kind of job can an undocumented worker get? "I'm not a slacker," said May, 17, who, like other students in this story, declined to use her full name for fear of being deported. "I try to go out there and make things happen, but doors close in...

Mexican officials in the U.S. and abroad are involved in massive and almost daily interference in American c, according to a blistering new report. "Mexican consulates are engineering a backdoor amnesty for their illegal migrants and trying to discredit American immigration enforcement – activities clearly beyond diplomatic bounds,” Heather MacDonald writes in the Dallas Morning News. MacDonald says Mexico is "shameless” in promoting illegal entry into the U.S., citing these examples: The Mexican government publishes and distributes a comic book-style guide on breaching the border safely and evading detection once in the U.S. Mexican officials ordered their consulates to promote...