WATCH: Secretary Hilda Solis and Secretary Gary Locke talk immigration

Today, the day after Representative Gutierrez and 91 total cosponsors introduced the CIR ASAP immigration reform bill, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke are taking part in a discussion of their own perspectives on the immigration debate. You can watch the live-stream from the Center for American Progress above.
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The Census, Re-apportionment, and the Immigration Debate

Originally posted at ImmPolitic Blog.
One undercurrent to the year-to-year political shenanigans that play out in Congress around the immigration issue is the demographic change that is occurring in the country, officially measured every 10 years by the decennial census. There is a census coming up, in just over four months, and our friends over at [...]

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Politics and Policy: What to Expect from the Immigration Debate (NDN Panel)

Originally posted at America’s Voice.

Yesterday, DC-based think tank NDN hosted “Politicsand Policy: What to Expect from the Immigration Debate,” a panel discussion between NDN president Simon Rosenberg, ImmigrationWorks president Tamar Jacoby, and executive director of the National Immigration Forum, Ali Noorani.
The three discussed the current debate on immigration and prospects for reform going into the [...]

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