Posted on 08/13/2015 6:28:38 PM PDT by glenduh
Before Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump grabbed the spotlight on immigration, it was advocates and young Dreamers who were forcing the issue to the forefront of the 2016 presidential election.
A presidential candidate could expect to be interrupted in a speech with questions from pro-immigration reform advocates about why they want to deport a young person's mother or be confronted at a restaurant about taking away the quasi-legal status President Barack Obama had given them.
But the cameras and attention are now trained on Trump, who shifted the discussion on immigration to the right with incendiary and, to many, bigoted remarks about Mexicans and immigrants. Now, the discussion has taken on a greater enforcement tone than it had when immigration advocates were pressuring candidates to state their views on Obama's immigration executive orders.
Pushed to the sidelines, advocates huddled in Las Vegas this week to define their national strategy on immigration. More than 250 immigration advocates, allies and policy experts from 25 states and Washington, D.C., convened for the conference held Monday through Wednesday.
Lupe Lopez, executive director of the Alliance for Citizenship, said even though she doesn't think Trump has the upper hand on immigration, she acknowledged he has taken much of the spotlight and influenced other Republican presidential candidates to steer more to the right on immigration.
They will continue going to public events where candidates are scheduled to appear and ask pointed questions about immigration. "What we're finding out right now is that the agenda of the Republicans is an agenda that is anti-immigrant," Lopez said. "They're not talking about a path to citizenship, and they're questioning whether they should even support legalization."
One difference in strategy: immigration advocates plan to join forces with other movements, including #BlackLivesMatter, to build power and increase the number of allies...
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PING
Yank? They sound like a buncha Rebels....
Takes a boatload of lies to cover ONE TRUTH...
things are heating up
By what *right* should folks who have flouted our immigration laws be legalized, in any fashion Ms. Lopez? There's a word for that. The word is "amnesty".
Those of us who were around in 1986 remember the bill of that year. There was a one time amnesty included in that bill as well as stricter enforcement thereafter. Those who gushed over the amnesty provisions got what they desired, while the rest of us got bupkes, instead of the stricter enforcement we were promised.
We will *NOT* be fooled again! You will get *NO* amnesty until *our* concerns are properly dealt with, so suck it up, buttercup!
the infowarrior
Go over to a PIT BULL and “yank” his bone ways. Then call your DOCTOR!!! ( you won’t have the bone!!)
Buenos nachos, Lupe. No one’s buying your sob stories. But please do unite forces with #blackliesmatter. It should be good for a little levity.
That’s an odd pairing; illegals and Black Americans. Blacks, who are citizens, are losing the victim/welfare war to illegals..
If they were good candidates, they would have thought of it first. Trump deserves to be leading, because he IS leading.
NBC lies... the democrat ‘reform’ is always to help illegals first... then promise to close the border - which they never do.
NBC is not trustworthy.
They can’t given their pussy libtard stance on it.
The pioneers take the arrows.
Pro immigration reform advocates = lawbreakers and their friends who want the front door left standing wide open.
Open border shills like Jeb, Fiorina, Rand and Rubio have a sad face these days.
Americans are getting sick of being killed and outvoted by third world immigrants.
Ha...already in place nation wide...
Obamas "PUBLIC ALLIES"
Service program receives more, positive, media attention while solving tough social problems for communities and offering professional growth for corps members.
Public Allies has received a lot of tough press among obscure blogs this year, but with established connections to the future President and First-Lady, the outlook in the media has just gotten brighter for the national, Milwaukee-based AmeriCorps program.
Here are just a couple news items involving Public Allies in the past week since the election:
The National Public Radio show Morning Edition mentioned Public Allies this morning in a discussion of Michelle Obama’s executive experience since graduating from law school. She was the founding Executive Director of Public Allies Chicago.
The San Francisco Chronicle published this article about social entrepreneurs’s hopes for the new administration. The New York Post ran an article on Michelle Obama.
Michelle Obama chatted last week with a Newsweek journalist about her experience with Public Allies and the future of national service generally:
What these advocates have to do is cross the aisle and comprise with Trump. If not, adios amigos.
Unless they destroy him or use the Republican party apparatus to give him the shaft. But what they don’t understand is that no matter what they do to Trump, this genie is not going back in the bottle.
Hey Donald. You can go Republican, you can go independent, you can go Democrat...I frankly don’t care where you go...I’M COMING ALONG.
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