One of the country's leading Hispanic organizations is launching a campaign designed to pressure CNN to rein in host Lou Dobbs. Continue »
Several Hispanic groups are calling on CNN to drop talk-show host and frequent illegal immigrant critic Lou Dobbs, who is broadcasting his radio show from a conference put on by what some activists refer to as a "hate group." Continue »
During an event today with the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), U.S. Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) was asked by advocates for immigrant communities to introduce comprehensive immigration reform legislation and begin the legislative phase of the reform debate.... Continue »
16/09/09 a 8:04pm por Columnista Invitado Comparto esta informativa y muy precisa columna del escritor, columnista y comentarista Roberto Lovato, publicada ayer en La Opinión, sobre la campaña que Presente.org y otros grupos han emprendido para exigirle a CNN que despida de una vez a su presentador anti inmigrante... Continue »
If you can't stand up for innocent children, then who can you stand up for? Faith communities across the state of New Jersey did just that yesterday, hosting prayer vigils in ten different cities to highlight the destructive policies that are tearing U.S. children from their immigrant parents. Continue »
Washington, DC - After a huge push to drive up turnout, and after organizers promised to storm Congress with anti-immigrant citizen lobbyists, just fifty people showed up for the Federation for American Immigration Reform's (FAIR) annual "Hold their Feet to the Fire" event in Washington, DC yesterday. Continue »
16/09/09 a 4:05pm por Maribel Hastings La propuesta del Senado para reformar el sistema de salud de Estados Unidos fue presentada hoy y grupos pro inmigrantes y algunos legisladores demócratas argumentaron que en su esfuerzo de evidenciar sin lugar a dudas que los indocumentados no tendrán cobertura, la Casa... Continue »
This week, Media Matters, a media watchdog group, along with a number of civil rights, progressive advocacy, and national Hispanic organizations, have launched a campaign calling on CNN to drop Lou Dobbs. America's Voice is a proud partner of the campaign and its website, which launched yesterday at www.DropDobbs.com.... Continue »
Today, Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) joined health care and immigration reform advocates to question the policy and politics behind new immigrant restrictions in the Senate Finance Committee's draft legislation, released today. Last week, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) stunned the country when he shouted "You lie!" during the President's speech to... Continue »
Outside the Capitol Sept. 15 bishops of three denominations led a brief prayer service for an end to hate, particularly hatred toward immigrants. Continue »