Latinx and immigrant rights organizers are just a few hundred dollars away from raising $15,000 to erect a 15,000 foot “banner wall” around the Quicken Loans Arena during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next week. From ThinkProgress: Tania Unzueta, an undocumented community organizer with the immigrant rights advocacy...
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Republican National Convention organizers are finally admitting what we’ve suspected all along: Donald Trump’s candidacy has cost the event financially big-time. Back in January, RNC spokesman Sean Spicer — who in true Trumpian fashion has taken to trolling a Latino journalist on Twitter — reassured reporters that a potential Trump...
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English (en español al final de la página): Miami Herald: The immigration divide between Trump and Clinton By Miriam Valverde PJ Media: Trump Losing Latino Vote 73-16 Percent, Survey Finds By Nicholas Ballasy Washington Post: Clinton highlights differences with Trump on immigration By John Wagner and Jenna Portnoy Washington...
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In an open letter rejecting his candidacy, Silicon Valley leaders from Facebook, Twitter, eBay, Reddit, StubHub, Meetup, and dozens of other companies call Donald Trump “a disaster for innovation.” 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children. Trump has promised to build a massive...
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With the GOP convention just days away, Ohio authorities “have been collecting intelligence on extremist groups to identify any possible threats,” reports the New York Times. Among the extremist groups expected to rally around Donald Trump in Cleveland are white nationalist groups American Freedom Party, Blood and Honour and...
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English (en español al final de la página): Huffington Post (Op-ed): How The Supreme Court DAPA Decision Will Influence The 2016 Election By David Damore Wall Street Journal: Trump Proposes Linking Foreign Worker Visas to Hiring Veterans By Ben Kesling Wall Street Journal: Donald Trump’s Immigration Policies Would Cost...
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A wall was erected in Colorado during Donald Trump’s visit to the state earlier this month — but it’s definitely not the kind the presumptive Republican nominee has proposed. ProgressNow, Strong Colorado and over two dozen local groups joined forces to build a nine-foot-tall wall out of cardboard boxes...
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TIME reports that on the heels of a controversial UK referendum that has been widely tied to anti-immigrant and anti-refugee sentiment, British politician and “Brexit” leader Nigel Farage will attend next week’s GOP convention in Cleveland. Farage won’t say which Republican leader or leaders invited him to the convention,...
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A new profile from the New York Times takes a disturbing look at how Trump’s bigotry-fueled campaign has “opened the door to assertions of white identity and resentment in a way not seen so broadly in American culture in over half a century.” While refusing to disavow the support...
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English (en español al final de la página): Yahoo: Parties’ platforms open up wide gulf on immigration By Liz Goodwin American Immigration Council: Trump Poised for Record Loss of Latino Voters By Walter Ewing Bloomberg (Opinion): Republicans May Never Get Past Immigration By Francis Wilkinson Beyond Chron (Op-ed): The...
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