May 10, 2012
The Department of Justice announces it is filing a lawsuit against “America’s Most Corrupt Sheriff”: Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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Yesterday, President Obama announced his support of marriage equality. This was the culmination of the President’s evolution on the issue and has been hailed as a major step forward for equality. LGBT immigrants have to deal not only with our nation’s broken immigration system, binational same-sex couples are subject...
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Norma Galindo Gonzalez is a Colorado mom of two U.S. citizen children – and she desperately needs help to stay in this country with her family. Norma came to the United States in 1991 to escape extreme poverty in her hometown in Mexico. Since then, she has learned English,...
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Casa De Maryland took to the streets yesterday to protest the Obama Administration’s failure to implement immigration policy that would keep undocumented immigrants who fit certain criteria safe from deportation. And, those activists took to the streets right outside of the DC headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (a.k.a. ICE.)...
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Today, the Republican National Committee’s Hispanic Outreach Director, Bettina Inclan, caused quite a stir by stating that Mitt Romney hasn’t yet decided his positions on immigration: “As a candidate, to my understanding, he’s still deciding what his position on immigration is,” said Bettina Inclan, the RNC’s director of Hispanic outreach....
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Sunday’s New York Times featured a profile on “The Powers of New York,” described as: Influence in New York is now wielded by a larger and more diverse array of people. As part of a special issue of Metropolitan, here’s a look at who is at the top and who...
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At Daily Caller, which has established itself as a mouthpiece for the right-wing, the notoriously extremist Ann Coulter offers a particularly vicious rant against anyone who has ever supported immigration reform. This is her proposed solution: I myself would like to deport the people responsible for our current immigration...
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Today, Reverend Frank Hammond led a group of immigration advocates — calling themselves “Alabama’s Conscience” — in a protest at the Alabama Senate against their state’s controversial worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law, H.B. 56 and legislation under consideration that could make it even worse. “These laws are, by their very nature,...
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Unlike the Chief Justices, Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times grasps the real world consequences of Arizona’s anti-immigrant approach.
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It was brutal, violent end to the life of one of Arizona’s most notorious anti-immigrant leaders, J.T. Ready — and he killed four people along with himself. From the Arizona Republic: For several years, Arizona vigilante J.T. Ready conducted armed, civilian patrols along the U.S. border, urging the use...
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