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Senate Republicans circulate

artappraiser — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:39:45 +0000

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Senate Republicans circulate outline of immigration proposal
By Cameron Joseph, The Hill, 11/15/12 06:01 PM ET

Senate Republicans are circulating a working outline for a GOP alternative to the DREAM Act that would allow some illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children to stay in the U.S.

The outline is very similar to a proposal floated by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) earlier this year, though the senator was not the one to circulate the latest draft. Rubio tabled his proposal in the summer after President Obama issued an executive order granting temporary visas to young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally [....]

The Daily Caller first reported the Senate draft proposal and has more details of the plan here.

When we arrived in Austin, at

EmmaZahn — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:43:05 +0000

In reply to The Party Next Time: As immigration turns red states blue, how can Republicans transform their platform?

When we arrived in Austin, at the end of our trip together, he revealed his simple recipe for success....“I think every case in litigation and every argument in politics is about the fundamental narrative,” he said. “If you can frame the narrative, you win. As Sun Tzu said, every battle is won before it is fought. And it is won by choosing the field of terrain on which the fight will be engaged.” For now, the field belongs to Obama and the Democrats, and the storyline on immigration is theirs to lose.

Good article. Thanks.

Lizza notes Martinez de Vara

artappraiser — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:39:02 +0000

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Lizza notes Martinez de Vara had a very interesting recent accomplishment :

At around the time that Mitt Romney was winning the primary by attacking his opponents for being too soft on immigration, the largest state Republican Party in America was ridding its platform of its most restrictionist immigration language and calling for a program to allow unauthorized immigrants to stay in the U.S. legally and work.

and recounts what happened when

A few months later, Martinez de Vara and his group took the fight to the national Convention, in Tampa [.....]