Finally, after nearly two years, a jury in Pima County, Arizona convicted Minuteman member Shawna Forde for her role in the murders of 9 year-old Brisenia Flores and her father, Raul. Elisa Foley from the Huffington Post reports: A jury convicted Forde of planning and executing the raid that...
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New report uncovers the meaning of the term "attrition through enforcement"; its goal to deport millions of immigrants; and the impact it would have on our economy and politics.
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What the census shows is that America's racial minorities, aggregated together, are on track to become its majority. The Republican Party's response to this epochal demographic change has been to do everything in its power to keep America (particularly its electorate) as white as can be.
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"We could tell by looking at her that she was not originally from this country," O'Brien said. Another lawmaker asked O'Brien how she could tell the woman wasn't a legal citizen. O'Brien replied: "Well, she wasn't black, she wasn't Asian and she had the olive complexion."
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There was nothing but bad news for Republicans in the Census data released last week. Preliminary estimates reveal a rapidly browning America. Ethnic and racial minorities accounted for 85 percent of the nation's population growth over the last decade, the bulk coming from Latinos.
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The hard-line anti-immigrant lobby and their champions in Congress believe that the 11 million undocumented people living in the United States today should be offered only one option: get out. "Attrition through enforcement" is the name they have devised for a basket of policies that are designed to achieve...
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Feb 14, 2011
New immigration legislation to be introduced this week by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) seeks to double down on the current deportation-only strategy: a strategy that has clearly failed to work these last twenty or so years. The fact that a Republican would be pandering to the far...
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"This is making us into a police state that will try to catch people when they are sick," said George Pauk, a retired doctor with an organization called Physicians for a National Health Program. "Do we want to stop sick people from coming in for health care?"
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Arpaio has made national headlines over the years for his tough stance on crime and illegal immigration. It was unclear how much interest he has in running for Senate versus running for re-election as sheriff, but he is being urged by his supporters to pursue the Congressional seat, according...
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The immigrant bashing rhetoric from the nativist wing of the Republican Party was on full display this past weekend in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Showing no concerns about alienating the fastest growing voting demographic, the event showcased some of the worst of the worst, including Rep....
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