In Senate, an Immigration Bill Savior or Saboteur?
NEW YORK TIMES: One week into the Senate’s immigration floor fight, Senator John Cornyn of Texas has emerged as one of the most polarizing figures on the issue: a Republican leader from a border state brandishing a border security plan that he says is meant to salvage the measure but that is seen by others as a surreptitious attempt to scuttle it.
As U.S. Plugs Border in Arizona, Crossings Shift to South Texas
NEW YORK TIMES: A surge in migrant traffic across the Southwest border into Texas has resulted in a milestone: the front line of the battle against illegal crossings from Mexico has shifted for the first time in over a decade away from Arizona to the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
WonkBlog: Is it really the GOP’s anti-immigration stances that turn off Latinos?
WASHINGTON POST: Pundits left and right have embraced the notion that the Republican Party has a strong political interest in passing comprehensive immigration reform. As the argument goes, the GOP lost a good shot at the presidency in 2012 because of a pro-Obama shift among Latino voters, which itself was a reaction to the GOP’s increasingly anti-immigration stance.
Republicans trying to use health-care law to derail Obama’s immigration reform efforts
WASHINGTON POST: After spending years unsuccessfully trying to overturn “Obamacare,” Republicans are now attempting to use President Obama’s landmark health-care law to derail his top second-term initiative — a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s immigration system.
Immigration: Governors speed ahead where Hillary Clinton stumbled
POLITICO: Several governors with potential 2016 ambitions are speeding ahead with plans to give driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, nearly six years after the issue tripped up Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes.
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