In Midst of Ugly Anti-Immigrant Demagoguery by GOP Candidates, Immigrant Women Pilgrimaging to DC Inject Refreshing Dose of Morality into Immigration Debate As the GOP candidates continue to fill the airwaves with xenophobic rhetoric and anti-immigrant demagoguery, a courageous group of immigrant women is showing leadership in ways the...
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English (en español al final de la página): Politico: GOP debate, Part 2: Immigration dominates again By Jenny Hopkinson New York Times: What the Candidates Said About Immigration Fox News Latino: Latinos increasingly raising their voice against Trump’s divisive rhetoric on immigration Los Angeles Times: GOP’s immigration dilemma comes...
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The 100 women making the 100 mile pilgrimage from Pennsylvania to DC to greet Pope Francis are about a quarter of the way there — they were at mile 26, at last count — and two new pieces from recent days highlight the message of dignity and compassion the...
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MSNBC is making changes to its morning lineup, and Latinos have plenty of reason to be concerned. Two weeks ago, Mediaite reported on how the cable news network would seek to reshuffle its morning programming in order to expand “Morning Joe,” hosted by former Republican Representative Joe Scarborough, to...
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Below, we offer some reactions and fact-checking about the immigration-related parts of last night’s debate: The Focus of the “Mass-Deportation” Discussion Was on the Impracticality of Donald Trump’s Plan – Not Its Morally Abhorrent, Un-American Vision: During the immigration-related parts of last night’s debate, most of the candidates who reacted to...
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We’re constantly getting questions from people about what they can do to help push back against the increasingly ugly and racist rhetoric from the 2016 election, particularly from the leading Republican candidate, Donald Trump. While it’s important to lift our voices whenever we see ugly attacks on our Latino,...
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Devastating Loss of Latino Vote in CA 2010 Senate Race Was Even Worse Than Romney’s Total The consensus takeaway from last night’s Republican presidential debate is that Carly Fiorina was the big winner, perhaps emerging as the leading alternative to frontrunner Donald Trump. Yet when it comes to Fiorina’s...
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According to estimates, there are about 13.3 million permanent residents living in the United States today — and nearly nine million of them are eligible to become citizens. Today, President Obama, in conjunction with non-profit group Civic Nation, launched the “Stand Stronger” Citizenship Awareness campaign, an effort to encourage...
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English (en español al final de la página): Washington Post : Wednesday’s GOP debate transcript, annotated NBC News: Round Two: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly of The GOP Debate By Stephen Nuno Washington Post: The world is facing a devastating global refugee crisis. The GOP debate...
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Donald Trump has a plan to remove 11 million people from the United States in 18 months. If his plan were successful, it would be one of the worst global humanitarian atrocities in recent history: He will transport 611,111 per month 20,370 per day 14 people per minute around...
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