"This is a jobs bill," they said. "This is a jobs-creation bill for Americans," they said. Such were the arguments that Alabama Senator Scott Beason (R) and Rep. Micky Hammon (R) made last year before passing their notoriously anti-immigrant state law, HB 56.
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As sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act, a.k.a. SOPA, Rep. Lamar Smith has put himself at the center of a massive controversy. Online activists realized that Smith is dangerous figure. Welcome to our world.
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As Newt Gingrich seizes the momentum in the South Carolina primary and attention starts to turn toward the next primary battle in Florida, both the Gingrich and Mitt Romney campaigns are up with Spanish-language advertisements targeting Latino Republicans in Florida.
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Mitt Romney's attempt to simultaneously run very different campaigns in English in South Carolina and in Spanish in Florida has not proceeded as planned. In the past several days, both La Opinión and Jorge Ramos have called out the Romney campaign's two states, two languages, two faced effort.
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Mitt Romney has made immigrant bashing a centerpiece of his presidential campaign. Vetoing the DREAM Act a key element of Romney's strategy. Last night, while fundraising in New York, Mitt Romney was met by a protest from DREAMers. Romney has called the DREAM Act a "handout" and Last...
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Now it's former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's turn to learn what happens when you don't learn from history. Last week, Romney chose to accept the endorsement of Kris Kobach, a virulently anti-immigrant (and anti-gay, and pro-apartheid) leader who wrote state laws designed to drive immigrants out of Arizona...
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Last night, at the GOP Presidential debate from South Carolina, Mitt Romney reiterated his opposition to the DREAM Act, calling it a "mistake." And, Romney also renewed his vow to veto the legislation. He also spoke about a lot about opportunity. What Mitt doesn't get -- or doesn't...
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Yesterday evening, Scott Douglas, executive director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, made an appearance on the Colbert Report to discuss Alabama's monster immigration law, HB 56. On the day Americans were celebrating the memory of our nation's greatest civil rights leader, Douglas invoked the great leader himself.
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As many opponents of immigration reform work hard to make clear, they are against illegal immigration (because "illegal is illegal") and don't have any beef with people who come here through sanctioned means.
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The rap on Mitt Romney is that he is a political opportunist who lacks core principles. No wonder. The Romney campaign's efforts to simultaneously run two very different campaigns in South Carolina and Florida serve only to confirm Romney's shape-shifting ways.
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