We've all seen immigration play out as the hot-button issue that talk radio hosts love to flog, but today Joseph Boven has a thorough rundown of how immigration is actually playing out in elections -- politicians beware. According to his piece in today's Colorado Independent:"According to nonpartisan pollster Floyd...
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Jennifer McFayden over at About.com writes: "Peaceful, maybe, but ALIPAC president William Gheen is known for his hard line approach." She quotes him saying telling Congressman Gutierrez (D-IL) to ""Make my day punk!"(Seriously?) and then goes on to say, "I don't know what poll Gheen is using, but if...
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From Joaquin Guerra, over at the SEIU Blog-- the latest action in response to the Vitter-Bennet Amendment: "Some politicians come up with dumb ideas. Some come up with impractical ideas that would cost taxpayers millions of dollars. And then there are those lawmakers with crazy proposals that would violate...
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Together, we raised the $16,000 needed to run our TV ad on CNN – telling the station to drop Lou Dobbs's one-sided, anti-immigrant "news" show.
Unfortunately, CNN isn't having it. They called to say they won't take our money and have refused to air our "Drop the Hate" TV ad.
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The Minutemen PAC, has gotten deeply involved in a New York Congressional race. Andrea Nill reports: "Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate for New York's traditionally Republican 23rd District, has just won the right-wing support of the Minuteman Political Action Committee — the political action arm of a "nativist...
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Yesterday, in "Warning: Talking Sanely about Immigration May Be Hazardous," we reported on Sacramento's Police Chief Rick Braziel, and his measured, rational approach to immigration and community policing. Today, we are happy to highlight another key voice on this issue. Outgoing LAPD Police Chief William J. Bratton is a...
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So, now we're ticketing people for not speaking English? No, really. Daphne Eviatar of the Washington Independent reports:"Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, reports the Dallas Morning News." It seems Dallas police were confused when, after pulling drivers...
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Last week Stephen Magagnini and Susan Ferriss of the Sacramento Bee first reported that Police Chief Rick Braziel had become the latest voice of a growing number of police chiefs across the nation calling for a serious immigration overhaul. These police chiefs are sick and tired of what they're...
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Ronda Racha Penrice sums up much of the controversy we posted on earlier this evening in "Will movement to remove Lou Dobbs overshadow Soledad O'Brien's Latino in America at CNN?" "For many Latinos, CNN's Latino in America is not their primary concern; Lou Dobbs is... Many within the Latino...
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The mounting efforts (including our "Drop Dobbs" TV ad) underway to hold CNN accountable for Lou Dobbs are clearly having an impact. In their coverage of CNN's "Latino in America" series, the Associated Press reports: "CNN is airing a four-hour special on Latinos in America this week that ignores...
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