Earlier this month, Angela Caputo of Progress Illinois described Rigo Padilla, the 19-year-old honors student facing deportation, pictured in the video above, as "A Local Posterchild For Our Broken Immigration System:" Well, according to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR):"Today, December 10th, we got some great...
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Dec 10, 2009
If there is one thing that the movement for comprehensive immigration reform can learn from the congressional fight for health care reform, it's that Republicans will distort the facts and delay in order to block the change Americans need.
They'll even resort to feigning support for policies and programs that...
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In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano reiterated the Obama Administration's plan to push for Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation early next year. In her opening statement, Napolitano said:"So I look forward to working with you, Mr. Chairman and Senator Sessions and others on this...
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The nation's 10% unemployment rate is feeding anti-immigrant sentiment, as Marcelo Ballvé reports for New America Media. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) critiqued President Barack Obama's recent jobs summit as "fatally flawed" because President Obama did not discuss wresting millions of jobs away from undocumented families. Smith's argument is flawed.
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The Washington Post has a devastating feature today entitled, "Left behind: A child's burden," and subtitled, "An undesirable inheritance." In it, N.C. Aizenman reports on the diverse ways in which the U.S.-born kids of Hispanic immigrants are coping with poverty, as well as the fact that they are two...
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"Justice Sotomayor's opinion in the case, Mohawk Industries v. Carpenter, No. 08-678, marked the first use of the term "undocumented immigrant," according to a legal database. The term "illegal immigrant" has appeared in a dozen decisions." Judge Sotomayor's simple use of the term "undocumented" is sure to drive the...
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will get an earful this week about why it's time for Congress to tackle comprehensive immigration reform, and Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, will likely be making this case when she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, December 10th.
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Last week, a conglomeration of anti-immigrant groups, led by "Help Save Maryland" and FAIR (recognized a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center), organized a rally against my organization, CASA de Maryland.
The heavily promoted rally, which was announced in CAPITAL LETTERS on the website of Help Save Maryland,...
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There are those in Washington who doubt the possibility of passing comprehensive immigration reform, and while they say it's too hard, Cokie Roberts, news analyst for NPR, claims immigration reform - though challenging - is "reform that's right stuff." In an Op-Ed piece to the Trentonian today, Cokie explains...
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Quick note that that the oracle of the anti-immigration lobby, James R. Edwards, has given us another brilliant contribution to his "blame the immigrants" cannon. This time it's immigrants screwing up health reform, but don't be fooled: there's plenty more bashing where that came from.
See, Edwards is the...
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