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1 week ago | 
prospect.org | David Dayen |Ryan Grim |Nicolae Butler |Pablo Manriquez
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has been furiously urging House Democrats to release messages of steadfast support for Israel in its war with Iran, the Prospect and Drop Site News have learned, even as bipartisan lawmakers come together on a War Powers Act resolution to prevent U.S. troops or funds being used in yet another Middle East conflagration.
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1 week ago | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | David Dayen |Ryan Grim |Nicolae Butler |Pablo Manriquez
What happens when a failing dictator is on the ropes?
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1 month ago | 
migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez |Nicolae Butler
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader John Thune, are at a crossroads over whether to heed Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s guidance on President Donald Trump’s ambitious “one big, beautiful bill” advancing through the budget reconciliation process. The decision could reshape Senate norms and determine the fate of Trump’s legislative agenda, which includes permanent tax cuts, border security enhancements, and energy policy reforms.
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2 months ago | 
migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez |Nicolae Butler
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — In a defiant act of moral urgency, four House Democrats arrived in this Central American capital Monday to confront what they describe as a constitutional crisis unfolding back home: the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident swept up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet. Reps.
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2 months ago | 
migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez |Nicolae Butler
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — In a bold rebuke of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, four Democratic lawmakers—Reps. Robert Garcia (Calif.), Maxwell Frost (Fla.), Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.), and Maxine Dexter (Ore.)—arrived in El Salvador on Monday to demand the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man with protected legal status who was unlawfully deported by the Trump administration.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
msn.com | Matt Laslo |Nicolae Butler
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
rawstory.com | Matt Laslo |Nicolae Butler
WASHINGTON—In a historic first, President-elect Donald Trump is bucking centuries of American tradition by welcoming an array of foreign leaders to his second inauguration. The parade is about as far-right as they come, including many who — whether in policy or bombast — have been compared to Trump himself. One of Trump’s guests is known for hoodwinking the English people into Brexiting the EU, but others aren’t household names.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
migrantinsider.com | Nicolae Butler
WASHINGTON — On January 6, the House swiftly passed the controversial H.R. 29, known as the Laken Riley Act, in just three hours. Despite fiery objections from Democrats, Speaker Johnson kept his party united, ensuring the bill's approval. Surprisingly, 48 Democrats also supported the measure. No amendments were proposed, debated, or voted on, and the bill was sent to the Senate the same day. In the Senate, the bill, now labeled S.5, has steamrolled over half-hearted objections by Democrats.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
migrantinsider.com | Nicolae Butler
WASHINGTON – House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MA) dismissed a new immigration bill Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) reintroduced on the first day of the new term. “It’s perfectly redundant,” Raskin told Migrant Insider on Tuesday. “It just reproduces the law, except that it excludes all the waivers and exceptions that currently exist,” he continued.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
migrantinsider.com | Nicolae Butler
ANALYSIS — On January 3, House Republicans lead by newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson wasted no time in passing a rules package (H.Res.5)for the 119th Congress that included at the very bottom a dozen orders of business: six anti-immigrant bills to be immediately considered. The Laken Riley Act was the first of the six, passing the House last Monday by a wide margin that included forty-eight Democrats.
