Here's the latest blatant example of the system's decadence, from a piece in the New York Times on immigration detention, entitled, "Piecing Together an Immigrant's Life the U.S. Refused to See." It details the untimely death of Tanveer Ahmad in a substandard immigration jail: "When the 43-year-old man died...
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After a strong coordinated effort this week, led by Dream Activist.org and SEIU, to allow Walter Lara to stay in this country, we've scored an important victory. Walter was granted a one-year stay of deportation today. The 23-year-old honor student will now get to spend this Fourth of...
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"There is no greater case in recent memory that so accurately demonstrates the absurdity and injustice of our broken immigration system than the case of Walter Lara, a youth who's family traveled to the United States when he was just three years old. Walter earned a 4.7 GPA in...
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Yesterday we were happy to note that the Minnesota Supreme Court ended an 8-month epic legal dispute to determine who would represent the great state of Minnesota in the United States Senate. We were even happier to note that the newest member of the Senate and the Senate...
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Earlier this year, we reported that, in light of changing demographics, the Boy Scouts of America is spending more and more marketing dollars to recruit Latino youth, understanding that Latinos:
re projected to make up one quarter of the nation's population by 2050.
And this week TuscaloosaNews.com...
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Think Progress' Wonk Room blogger Andrea Nill found this clip of Mark Krikorian (of Keith Olbermann Worst Person in the World fame) trying to pin the problems with our healthcare system, including our "uninsured crisis" on immigrants. Big surprise there. Mark Krikorian is the Executive Director of the Center...
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Jun 29, 2009
"The meeting was more encouraging than that. It led to a persuasive show of unity among Republicans and Democrats. Both sides made the case for getting a comprehensive reform bill written and passed this year, or early next. Mr. Obama announced that the homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, would...
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Yesterday, the White House hosted a meeting of bipartisan lawmakers from both chambers of Congress to begin the conversation of how to move immigration reform forward this year. Kos, founder of the progressive blog Daily Kos, reports in "Immigration reform headed for passage this year:" "Both the White...
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THE PRESIDENT: "Hello, everybody. We have just finished what I consider to be a very productive meeting on one of the most critical issues that I think this nation faces, and that is an immigration system that is broken and needs fixing. We have members of...
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More disturbing profiles in extremism this week. After a mother of six died in Monday's tragic Metro crash, a group of what appear to be anti-immigrant activists are calling up Ana Fernandez' family and asking for the family's papers. Their justification? Apparently "Fernandez" sounds "illegal." This kind of extremism,...
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