Haitian-Americans, myself included, have been especially proud that our adoptive homeland not only took the lead in recovery and relief efforts in Haiti after the massive January earthquake, but also temporarily suspended deportations of undocumented Haitian immigrants and granted them work permits so that they could earn income and...
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New polling of Latino voters reveals that 1) this group is among the least energized heading into the 2010 elections; and 2) progress on comprehensive immigration reform is key to re-energizing these voters.
Latino Decisions researcher and Stanford University professor Dr. Gary Segura highlighted and analyzed the findings:
Among all the...
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A group of grassroots leaders are demanding that the Obama Administration fire John Morton, the head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security. According to Deepak Bhargava,"This agency has gone rogue and is operating in clear opposition to the direction President Obama...
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Mar 24, 2010
Wow, what a week! It's time to tell Congress that now that health care reform has passed, they have 200,000 good reasons to move immigration reform next:
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Mar 23, 2010
On Sunday, President Barack Obama delivered the following message to the 200,000 people gathered on the National Mall for the March for America: "Change Takes Courage." Watch it.
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Mar 21, 2010
Today's the day. Tens of thousands of people are registered to come to the National Mall for today's immigration reform rally, called the "March For America." We'll be updating the blog all day (from 1pm EST on) with news from the rally and around the blogosphere.
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Mar 19, 2010
New polling and updated analysis by America's Voice and America's Voice Education Fund show that Latino voters are poised to play a major role in politics in 2010 and beyond.
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Mar 11, 2010
While pundits have been busy pronouncing immigration reform dead, today the White House is busy hosting-- not one-- but three meetings on immigration in response to the increasing volume of grassroots pressure to see progress on the President's promise to overhaul our dysfunctional immigration system.
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Mar 1, 2010
Last week the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the "think tank" of the anti-immigrant lobby, announced the results of a new CIS-sponsored Zogby poll purporting to show that people of color, including Latinos, support their mass-deportation, anti-immigrant agenda.
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Feb 18, 2010
The news that former U.S. House member and anti-immigration zealot J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) is challenging Senator John McCain (R-AZ) in a Republican primary offers a fresh reminder of the GOP's dangerous schism when it comes to immigration politics.
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