This Netroots Nation, we're keeping busy with a wide range of fabulous immigration film screenings, panels, and events. We'll also be giving away Vegas-inspired DREAM Act scratch cards in the registration packets... Find out more!
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Jul 16, 2010
America's Voice Education Fund has released a new report detailing the long, disturbing and ineffective record of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ -- the "Model Sheriff" for Arizona's SB 1070, who has a record of failed crime-fighting tactics, civil rights abuses, and creating terror in the communities...
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Jul 9, 2010
Comedy Central's Steven Colbert volunteers to be the fourth American to become a farm worker through the United Farm Workers of America's "Take Our Jobs" campaign. Watch it!
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Jul 7, 2010
As the Department of Justice sues to block Arizona's new immigration law, pollsters analyze the public's complex views on immigration reform. Studies conducted by Westen Strategies and Lake Research Partners & Public Opinion Strategies shed light on where the public stands as the immigration debate heats up.
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Obama's latest immigration speech brings welcome attention to the immigration crisis in America. Comprehensive immigration reform is urgently needed, but with it stalled, there are important, targeted measures -- like the DREAM Act -- that we can pass right now. Sign the petition and ask Congress and President Obama...
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Jun 28, 2010
Every year, 65,000 undocumented high school students who have grown up as Americans are prevented from going to college or joining the military. These youth want to give back to the only country they call home, but instead live in constant fear of deportation and separation from their families....
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Jun 25, 2010
"We are a nation in denial about our food supply." United Farm Workers (UFW) have commenced a new "Take Our Jobs" campaign, an effort to call attention to the importance of immigrant workers, and the difficulties agricultural employers have in maintaining a stable, legal workforce.
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Jun 17, 2010
In Congress, Rep. Steve King claimed that some people have a "sixth sense" to identify undocumented immigrants, and we decided to take King at his word -- watch and share our new movie trailer, "Steve King's Sixth Sense for Immigrants."
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Jun 15, 2010
Our nation's immigration system is so dysfunctional that a Harvard biology major, a stellar student who dreams of curing cancer, is being threatened with deportation...
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Jun 14, 2010
Though SB 1070 doesn't go into effect until late July, it's already wreaking havoc on the state's economy. The latest Arizona business to suffer from the controversial immigration law is an already battered market: real estate.
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