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The Republicans have introduced legislation to slash legal immigration.
The bills have ultimately fallen short of passage, but their preponderant support among the GOP led Congress has marked a telling shift in their center of gravity.
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The New Yorker - The G.O.P.’s Immigration War Begins
The Heritage Foundation’s immigration report and the reaction to it represent a major event on the road to immigration reform. Something very unusual is …
Vice - Breaking Down the Republican War Against Legal Immigration After years of trying to crack down on undocumented immigrants, some GOP presidential hopefuls are trying to broaden the fight against foreign workers.
U.S. - Republicans could lose U.S. House in 2018 over immigration fight:...
Republican infighting over the fate of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children could be so vitriolic that the party loses control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, said in an interview airing on Sunday.
The Economist - The Republican Party is turning against legal immigration
THOSE keen to avoid hearing any more about the 45th president can download a filter that, for a fee, will scrub any mention of him from electronic devices. But for anyone interested in the long-term effects this president will have on America, the problem is the opposite.
National Review - Republicans Need a New Approach to Immigration | National Review
A new culture war is breaking out in America.
miamiherald - ‘Chain migration’ is Republican spin for family reunification | Miami Herald
President Trump wants to wall off Latino families, but he used the “chain migration” he maligns to bring son Barron’s maternal grandparents from Slovenia.
WTHI News - Republicans open a risky new front in the immigration wars In the epic struggle between President Donald Trump and the Democratic-controlled California state government, a new ...
CNN - GOP infighting on immigration stalls agenda, baffles leadership
Last September, Paul Ryan had an idea.
The Nation - Republicans Are Trying to Dismantle the Backbone of US Immigration Policy
For more than 50 years, family reunification has been a humane and compassionate part of our system.
POLITICO - House GOP immigration talks go off the rails Hours after Republicans touted progress in a meeting behind closed doors, conservatives and moderates were at odds over what is even on the table.
CNN - House GOP circles immigration breakthrough
House Republicans were on the verge of an immigration breakthrough Thursday, moderate lawmakers and sources said Thursday -- but only after the details are finalized and put on paper can the parties actually see if they agree.
NBC News - Forget a GOP civil war â the biggest fight plaguing Hill Republicans may be Trump vs. Trump
The only thing harder than opposing President Donald Trump`s policies for Republicans in Congress may be supporting them â because figuring them out is enough to stump any ally.
The Atlantic - The GOP’s ‘Utterly Dysfunctional’ Strategy of Babying Its Base
As long as Republican lawmakers support Trump’s hardline policies, they risk alienating their college-educated, and especially younger, voters.
CNN - GOP increasingly opposes legal -- not just illegal -- immigration
The firestorm over the separation of children from their undocumented parents at the border has almost completely overshadowed another milestone in the long-running national immigration debate: Opposition to legal, as well as illegal, migration is hardening into a bedrock principle of the Republican Party.
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