Horsford stands with Keeping Families Together to push for immigration reform
Representative Steven Horsford (NV-4) stood with Keeping Families Together and other reform advocates to push Speaker Boehner to bring up a comprehensive imm...
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hide captionImmigration supporters gather during a rally for citizenship on Capitol Hill last year.
Immigration supporters gather during a rally for citizenship on Capitol Hill last year.
One year ago, a frank Republican Party assessment of why it came up short in the 2012 presidential election included a stark recommendation.
Embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform, the post-mortem authors urged, or get used to a party whose appeal "will continue to shrink to its core constituents only."
That bold assertion was decidedly offstage Monday, as the party orchestrated a full-on media effort to mark advances it says it's made as a result of recommendations contained in the 2013 Growth and Opportunity Project report.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus pointed to successes over the past 12 months including improved data collection, new state-level staffers more involved in minority communities, and a rejiggering of the presidential primary, debate and convention schedules calendar changes designed to condense the season and not leave the eventual nominee so battered.
The party has already moved the start of its primary season to February, its convention to late June or early July, and is working to limit the number of candidate debates.
Glenn McCall, a committee member from South Carolina and one of five co-authors of the 2013 "autopsy," said that the party had heard the message that "we were not showing up."
McCall, who is African-American, said that he has seen "solid progress, and comprehensive progress" in terms of party field workers going to "communities where we've never gone before."
Sally Bradshaw, a Florida committee member and report co-author, said some of the progress the party has made on the digital and data front helped Republican candidate David Jolly win a Florida special election last week for a vacant congressional seat.
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Immigration reform advocacy organizations met Monday to call for immediate immigration reform. They want to have a haltto deportations, release those who are currently being detained, with the exception of violent criminals, and renew and expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to include a wider age range of childhood arrivals and their family members.
The Chair for the National Civil Rights for Immigrants with Gamaliel, Jesusa Rivera, says we need to pass immigration reform now. "Let's not wait. Let's not make excuses," Rivera said. "The time is now to do this."
The group kicked off their Fast 4 Families event and sun up by participating in a 24 hour fast. They will be gathering to pray Monday night at 5:30pm at St. Aldalbert's Church and to talk about strategies on how to move their member of congress.
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Keeping Families Together Summit 2014
Earlier this week, nearly 100 immigrant activists and leaders, representing immigration reform groups in more than 20 states, came to Washington, DC, to trai...
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Malibu, California (PRWEB) March 17, 2014
In an age when many critics of big government believe it is too big and unwieldy to accomplish anything useful, there is one man in Malibu, California on a lone quest to fill the void left by an intransient Congress. He believes that he has found a new solution to Immigration reform that has eluded congressional leaders.
Meet Mark Jason. Not many of his long-time neighbors in Malibu know about his plan to help solve the immigration crises. They also do not know about the Malibu think tank, Immigrant Tax Inquiry Group, Jason formed with experts and immigrants.
They intend to solve the immigration problem that has all but stymied the U.S. Congress, and their plan is simple and yet quite profound.
It involves the lost art of compromise.
Jasons group is proposing an immigration compromise to both parties. One they believe will pass on both sides of the aisle by reserving citizenship for later deliberation. They believe that we should legalize immigrants now and tax employers (who gain financially from immigrants lower wages) in order to pay for needed services. Furthermore, that we can do this all this without considering citizenship, which may be the most innovative part of their proposal.
This modest employer tax when added to a separate tax for 'cash-economy workers would yield over $100 billion. This would significantly offset the costs of immigrant services now paid by the taxpayers, such as, services such as health and education. I want to restore basic financial fairness and good sense to what has become our immigrant system, Mark emphasized, and to unite families separated by deportation. Mark went on to explain in detail why he has decoupled citizenship from legal status for immigrants. If immigrants provide useful services without burdening taxpayers, and if they were granted a new legal status and benefits, as our Model proposes, then people on both sides of the issue could decide the question of citizenship after that and with much cooler heads.
His is admittedly an unusual vision of what legislative compromise on immigration might look like, but it becomes far more understandable when you consider the two (seemingly divergent) influences on the genesis of his unique proposal.
I knew both Ronald Reagan and Caser Chavez and I think that both of these men influenced me in creating this vision. My IRS conservative nature (Mark was an IRS Official during his formal working years) was in harmony with Reagans philosophy of personal responsibility. Chavez is a role model in how to treat the farm hands on my ranch and I have a wonderful extended family in Mexico. This was the first time I thought about my dual sides, law and order on one side and compassion for our undocumented labor force on the other, Mark reflected quietly for a moment, I see a vision of how we could improve the lives of immigrants that would set an example for other developed nations around the world. In the area of Immigration Reform the United States has a chance to be a leader again.
This writer pressed Jason, Director of the Immigrant Tax Inquiry Group, as to why this is a good deal for the employers who do not pay any special taxes now on their illegal immigrant help. His answer was this, What I do not want to get lost in this plan is the relationship between employer and employee. In our plan, it is a relationship where one side of the employer/employee relationship is helping the other so that everyone benefits. It becomes a sponsorship so to speak. Pressed to reduce his proposal to one simple statement he replied, The overall concept is that if you are living and working here, taxes need to be paid. Taxpayers all over the country know exactly what Mark is talking about on that score.
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