Today, the Spanish language press reports on various developments within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), after director Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the Senate. The backlash against Arizona over criminalization bill SB 1070 continues to dominate the news cycle, and columnists look at the Republican Party's attitude toward immigration...
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11/05/10 a 4:21pm Grupos pro inmigrantes y latinos suman fuerzas con activistas progresistas y de deportes para solicitar el traslado del Juego de Estrellas de 2011 de la ciudad de Phoenix Carta al comisionado Selig critica la ley SB 1070 y hace un llamado a honrar los valores estadounidenses ...
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Immigrant and Latino advocacy organizations joined with progressive advocates and bloggers today to call on Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to move the 2011 All-Star Game from Phoenix, AZ. In addition, the groups are urging that teams re-locate spring training games from locations within the state. A...
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Not only is Arizona's absurd new profiling law, SB 1070, getting ready to cost the state about $90 million dollars in lost tourism and convention revenue in the next five years, it might just cost Arizona the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
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Read the letter from dozens of Latino, Progressive, Labor, and Civil Rights organizations: "We are writing you today to ask that you denounce the new state law, cancel the 2011 Major League Baseball's All-Star Game in Phoenix, and to pressure teams to relocate all Arizona winter and spring training...
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The Spanish-language press reports on a poll showing that residents of "red states" support immigration reform, but Horge Ramos says reform will only happen this year if Barack Obama puts "the full weight of the presidency" behind it. Meanwhile, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) wants baseball's All-Star Game to join...
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11/05/10 a 9:36am por Maribel Hastings WASHINGTON, D.C. – El movimiento ultraconservador del Tea Party cobró una víctima con la derrota del senador de Utah, Bob Bennett, en la primaria republicana de ese estado el sábado. Los dos republicanos que se enfrentarán por la nominación al escaño que Bennett ocupa desde...
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11/05/10 a 9:32am por Rafael Prieto Zartha Los tres congresistas hispanos republicanos de la Florida, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Díaz-Balart y Mario Díaz-Balart, recibieron las peores notas de parte de la organización Americanos por Mejor Inmigración (ABI) en materia de inmigración. Los legisladores de origen cubano fueron “premiados” cada uno con...
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Letter to Major League Baseball Commissioner, Bud Selig
May 11, 2010
Dear Commissioner Selig:
As you know, the Governor of Arizona recently signed... Continue »
Prominent organizations fighting against the discriminatory and damaging Arizona anti-immigration law will send a letter tomorrow to Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Bud Selig urging him to remove the 2011 All-Star Game from its scheduled location in Phoenix, AZ and to pressure teams to re-locate spring training games from...
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