Feb 11, 2010
From faith to labor to law enforcement, more and more voices are demanding action on comprehensive immigration reform for the good of their communities and constituencies. Even more significantly, the country's demographics have shifted dramatically and Latino voters who care deeply about this issue have increased their political clout.
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In an interview published today in the nation's largest Spanish-language newspaper, La Opinión and other ImpreMedia publications, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reasserted her commitment to advancing comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, and expressed continued opposition to immigration raids that tear apart American families.
During the interview, Speaker Pelosi...
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Roy Beck, the executive director of Numbers USA, the immigration restriction group, has removed his mask and eviscerated his long-standing claim to being a "mainstream" activist who shuns immigrant bashing.
First, he showed up at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville this week. Then, during the nativism-riddled speech...
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The Latino vote has grown exponentially since 2000, changing the political landscape in more than a dozen states across the country, and is poised to be pivotal yet again in the 2010 cycle. According to experts on the politics of the Latino vote, who gathered on a telephonic...
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Feb 7, 2010
Latino Voter Trends in Recent Election Cycles
OCTOBER 2010 UPDATE | Download PDF
Over the past decade, Latino voters have increased their political power and made a... Continue »
Representative Mike Honda and Sonia Manzano, who most people know as Maria on Sesame Street, wrote an article, which was published today in the Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, voicing their support for comprehensive immigration reform. They write:
The tide seems to be turning in favor of comprehensive immigration reform,...
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Feb 3, 2010
America's Voice announced today the beginning of an online advertising campaign to encourage Americans to contact Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA) and demand that he remove his name from controversial immigration resolution H.Res. 1026, the so-called "BRIDGE Resolution."
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The President announced his budget Monday, sending many members of Congress into an angry frenzy over $3.83 trillion that Obama had allotted for an array of programs – mostly in an effort to fight against the growing unemployment and to strengthen our weak economy. But some members of Congress...
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Comprehensive immigration reform would grow the economy by ensuring that all workers and employers pay their fair share of taxes and play by the same rules. Reform would raise the wage floor for all workers and end the underground economy where unscrupulous employers take advantage of their workers...
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The New York Times today uncovers how U.S. immigration authorities under President Bush colluded with a Mississippi marine oil-rig company to punish workers exercising their labor rights. The article details shocking correspondence between the employer, Signal International, and the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which advised the...
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