RandallFan
06-26-2014, 08:45 PM
A committee of Massachusetts lawmakers rejected a bill Monday that would have granted driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, leaving another crop of gubernatorial candidates to debate the hot-button issue before the November elections.
Advocates for immigrants had hoped the Joint Committee on Transportation, dominated by Democrats, would follow a recent national trend and approve the bill.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/23/lawmakers-reject-licenses-for-illegal-immigrants/3OGjnXZwicOJvwOK0raXHK/story.html
A proposal to expand state-funded tuition assistance to undocumented college students failed by two votes in the New York State Senate today. The Senate vote likely ends, for this year, the debate on New York's Dream Act, which would have expanded the state's Tuition Assistance Program to include undocumented students.
That left just 59 senators in the chamber. In order to pass, the Democrats needed two of the 28 Republicans to jump ranks. That didn't happen. Instead, two Democratic senators voted against the bill.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/ny_dream_act_fails_in_state_senate_by_two_votes.ht ml
The New Hampshire Senate spiked a bill making students who entered the country illegally eligible for in-state tuition rates at University System of New Hampshire schools.
The Senate sent House Bill 474 (http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/results.aspx?lsr=2449&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2014&txtbillnumber=hb474) to “interim study” with a 24-0 vote Wednesday — a common move which in the second year of a two-year session, effectively kills the bill as the next legislature does not have to do anything with the bill.
http://toprightnews.com/?p=3004
Gov. Paul LePage is threatening to withhold all state funding for General Assistance from communities that ignore his administration’s new policy prohibiting undocumented immigrants from receiving aid.
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/06/24/lepage-ill-cut-off-funding-to-cities-that-give-state-money-to-undocumented-immigrants/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/gop-map-congress_n_2434773.html
But over at the GOP's website, they tilt from utility to animosity -- going out of their way to stick it to the New England states by not even bothering to fill in their state borders or identify them in any way. http://i.huffpost.com/gen/932264/original.jpg
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/30/gop-needs-more-northeast-republicans-to-save-the-party.html
But if the New York Republican Party were to reclaim its roots as the party of reform and Teddy Roosevelt, embracing an urban Republicanism that is pro-gay rights and pro-immigrant, it can be successful again.
Advocates for immigrants had hoped the Joint Committee on Transportation, dominated by Democrats, would follow a recent national trend and approve the bill.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/23/lawmakers-reject-licenses-for-illegal-immigrants/3OGjnXZwicOJvwOK0raXHK/story.html
A proposal to expand state-funded tuition assistance to undocumented college students failed by two votes in the New York State Senate today. The Senate vote likely ends, for this year, the debate on New York's Dream Act, which would have expanded the state's Tuition Assistance Program to include undocumented students.
That left just 59 senators in the chamber. In order to pass, the Democrats needed two of the 28 Republicans to jump ranks. That didn't happen. Instead, two Democratic senators voted against the bill.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/ny_dream_act_fails_in_state_senate_by_two_votes.ht ml
The New Hampshire Senate spiked a bill making students who entered the country illegally eligible for in-state tuition rates at University System of New Hampshire schools.
The Senate sent House Bill 474 (http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/results.aspx?lsr=2449&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2014&txtbillnumber=hb474) to “interim study” with a 24-0 vote Wednesday — a common move which in the second year of a two-year session, effectively kills the bill as the next legislature does not have to do anything with the bill.
http://toprightnews.com/?p=3004
Gov. Paul LePage is threatening to withhold all state funding for General Assistance from communities that ignore his administration’s new policy prohibiting undocumented immigrants from receiving aid.
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/06/24/lepage-ill-cut-off-funding-to-cities-that-give-state-money-to-undocumented-immigrants/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/gop-map-congress_n_2434773.html
But over at the GOP's website, they tilt from utility to animosity -- going out of their way to stick it to the New England states by not even bothering to fill in their state borders or identify them in any way. http://i.huffpost.com/gen/932264/original.jpg
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/30/gop-needs-more-northeast-republicans-to-save-the-party.html
But if the New York Republican Party were to reclaim its roots as the party of reform and Teddy Roosevelt, embracing an urban Republicanism that is pro-gay rights and pro-immigrant, it can be successful again.