"End the raids." That's the message from Cardinal George, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in USA Today. Folks, it just doesn't get any simpler than that. You've probably heard the uproar - led by Lou Dobbs- over Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's recent statements at...
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The Washington Post's George Will has a great column on Police Chief Jack Harris, who argues that Washington's failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform directly affects his ability to fight crime in Phoenix. 'For now, the U.S. "has turned immigration policy over to Mexican thugs." So, we have reached...
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Lawrence Downes writes about a factory worker who rolled up his sleeves and wrote a traditional Mexican "corrido" about injustice: "Mr. Linares's subject, the Maricopa County sheriff, is infamous for abusing prisoners, strutting on TV and arresting Latinos on flimsy pretexts. To his victims he is a figure of...
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Daily Kos has a piece up on the front page today that lays out both the moral and political arguments for planting real immigration reform firmly within the administration's agenda. In it, Kos cites an article in Roll Call that discusses the 19-city Family Unity Tour that is making...
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Factcheck.org has a good analysis of this wide-spread misinformation campaign by restrictionist groups like the Center for Immigration Studies: "Q: Will 300,000 illegal immigrants get construction jobs through the stimulus package? A: There's no way of knowing how many illegal immigrants may or may not end up with...
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Today the Associated Press is reporting that former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice deeply regrets not getting an immigration overhaul done during the Bush administration: "We need immigration reform." According to the AP, "She said immigrants were critical to the country's financial health, and that reform was needed to...
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Mar 12, 2009
So, Lou has officially gone �loco,’ as Barbara Morrill noted yesterday in her Late afternoon/early evening open thread on the front page of Daily Kos. It’s hard to imagine how he gets off smearing the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which is made up primarily of small and large...
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Mar 11, 2009
Check out Spanish-language coverage of today's call for an investigation of Arpaio, a full-length feature by Maribel Hastings. Legisladores, activistas y funcionarios aplaudieron la pesquisa en contra del Alguacil Joe Arpaio que conducirá el Departamento de Justicia, y el presidente del Comité Judicial de la Cámara Baja, John Conyers...
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Representative John Conyers (D-MI), Chairman of the US House Committee on the Judiciary, spoke first. Part of his speech was captured in the video below. He said we need to “end Arpaio’s reign of terror”and explained how grave the charges against Arpaio really are. He said they reflected a...
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Last Night Sheriff Joe Arpaio finally got what he's been asking for: an investigation by the Department of Justice. Today Representative Conyers and other members of the House Judiciary Committee join civil rights leaders to endorse a major petition delivery, listen to testimony, and call for an end to...
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