Tag: immigration reform

 The summer that once sizzled with expectation over the possible passage of comprehensive immigration reform will now fizzle into a five-week Congressional recess. Insiders say the chances Congress will pass sweeping reform this year is just north of nil. Fifty-three percent of voters prefer Speaker Boehner’s piecemeal approach, which would attempt to chop it up into a series of smaller bills.

Local activists gathered at Riverside Park on Saturday to send one message to lawmakers — pass immigration reform laws that will keep families together.

David Brookbank, a social worker and human rights advocate, said many of those who have been deemed “illegals” by the U.S. government, should have been brought into the country as refugees...

On Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon a group of Spokane residents will rally at Riverfront Park to rally for immigration reform.

According to the group's Facebook page, the purpose of the gathering is to "to stand in solidarity with the families and individuals who are separated from their families due to detentions and/or deportations."

Our pal Laurie Goodstein at the NYT profiles Mormons who go online searching for answers and end up finding doubt instead.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia makes the curious claim that unelected judges can lead to … the Holocaust?