My story is similar to that of thousands of other immigrants in the United States Armed Services. Yesterday, Senator Bob Menendez from New Jersey introduced a bill to provide immigration relief to the thousands of immigrants and their families serving overseas. Simply, the bill aims to keep the families...
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America's top religious and law enforcement leaders are taking a strong stance in favor of sensible immigration reform and it's made the anti-immigrant crowd very nervous.
In response, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the anti-immigrant lobby's "think tank," released two reports, written by the same author, claiming that Los...
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UPDATE Friday, October 23 11:00 am: Hate crimes legislation now headed to President Obama for his signature, according to CNN.com. Note: Cross-posted at Jack and Jill Politics. CNN began airing their highly-publicized series, “Latino in America,” last night, and I have to say, their coverage of the uptick in...
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Last night, CNN's Rick Sanchez called out Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ, for admitting to racial profiling during his "crime suppression sweeps" of Latino neighborhoods. At the end of the interview, Sheriff Joe basically thumbs his nose at Federal officials who have criticized Arpaio's sweeps (despite renewing...
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News is expected to break today that the Obama administration will grant federal immigration law enforcement authority to this guy:
"I will do another crime suppression very soon to show Washington and everybody else I'm not changing, I will not be intimidated by Congress, by alleged racial profiling investigations by...
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We came to you with big plans: put a TV commercial on the air, calling on CNN to retire Lou Dobbs and his ugly, race-based rhetoric. Check out the latest version of the ad (we cut it down to 30 seconds).Thanks to your dedication and generosity, we've raised the...
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Sep 29, 2009
Every weeknight, CNN airs one full hour of Hate TV -- it's called, "Lou Dobbs Tonight."
For 260 hours every year, Dobbs has a bully pulpit from which to spew race-baiting, fear, and intolerance, stamped with the CNN seal of approval.
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Sep 22, 2009
This week, America's Voice is launching a campaign to air our new TV ad targeting CNN. The goal: to get Lou Dobbs off the air. This is about taking a microphone away from one of the most dangerous propagandists in America. Few individuals have done more to...
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This afternoon, a select, bipartisan group of Members of Congress met with President Obama at the White House to talk immigration solutions. The President summed things up this way, according to a release from the White House: "After all the demagoguery, we've got a responsible set...
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For those of us who cover immigration issues and deal with the extremists all the time, none of this is new. Nor is the fact that so-called "legitimate" spokespersons deliver hate-filled messages that show up in angry faxes to Congress, the Ku Klux Klan and even Minuteman leader Shawna...
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