Record Number of GOP Women in Congress Didn t Come to Compromise
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In early February, just one day after the House banished Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from congressional committees for incendiary behavior and two days after GOP lawmakers decided by secret ballot to allow Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney to retain her leadership position despite her vote to impeach Donald Trump, a third drama involving Republican women was unfolding in upstate New York. In a case over disputed ballots in the state s 22nd congressional district, a judge ruled in favor of Republican Claudia Tenney, handing her victory over Democrat Anthony Brandisi by a mere 109 votes thereby settling the last undecided race of the 2020 election. That decis
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The Associated Press, one of the most prominent news agencies in the world, has regularly used far-right, nativist groups as sources for reporting on immigration.
The AP is a newswire service with immense reach. It claims 15,000 outlets use its journalism and more than half of the world’s population engages with AP content every day. It is a vital resource especially for local newsrooms, which can rely on wire services for more than half of their coverage of national issues. However, AP articles are so widely used that it can be difficult to issue corrections. Mistakes corrected on its main website often persist in other papers in the AP network. Errors in its reporting can live online for years at other outlets, which makes the AP’s use of extremist organizations as a source all the more concerning.
Weeks before the 1980 census officially began, the Federation for American Immigration Reform launched its campaign to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that, according to the Constitution, must include the whole number of persons in each state. Image: Ernie Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images
Even before taking office, former President Donald Trump s administration obsessed over the U.S. census.
From a failed bid for a citizenship question to a presidential memo about unauthorized immigrants that was fast-tracked to the Supreme Court, its moves over the past four years followed a playbook first drawn up more than four decades ago by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
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One of the Nation’s Former Top Cops on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement, Mark Morgan, Joins FAIR
February 10, 2021 GMT
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a national, nonprofit, public-interest, membership organization of concerned citizens who share a common belief that our nation s immigration policies must be reformed to serve the national interest. Visit FAIR s website at www.fairus.org . (PRNewsFoto/FAIR)
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a national, nonprofit, public-interest, membership organization of concerned citizens who share a common belief that our nation s immigration policies must be reformed to serve the national interest. Visit FAIR s website at www.fairus.org . (PRNewsFoto/FAIR)