Earlier this week, Senator Grassley (R-IA) pulled a Wilson. He claimed that the Baucus health insurance reform bill did not include sufficient provisions to keep undocumented immigrants from accessing care under the proposed health insurance reforms, as if we hadn't had enough GOP immigration wedge politics in one...
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Update: Alonso is still facing deportation and needs his supporters to call Senators Cantwell and Murray asking them to introduce a private bill on his behalf.
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Sep 24, 2009
By weekly guest blogger, Nezua: "As the immigration debate grows increasingly tense and intertwined with economic worries, cultural anxiety, and deep-seated racism and xenophobia, it is important to be clear about what's at stake. This debate is about our humanity; about our most fundamental legal precepts concerning a human...
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First, pardon the shameless self-promotion, but America's Voice has produced a TV ad regarding CNN's Lou Dobbs problem, in conjunction with the Media Matters campaigns to Drop Dobbs. Watch the ad and donate to get it on the air.
Next up: health care. Cynthia Tucker, a brilliant editorialist with the...
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Today is a national day of action in support of the DREAM Act, legislation that would create a path to legal status through college education or military service for undocumented youth who have been in this country since an early age.
Students all over the country are standing together in...
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Sep 22, 2009
This week, America's Voice is launching a campaign to air our new TV ad targeting CNN. The goal: to get Lou Dobbs off the air. This is about taking a microphone away from one of the most dangerous propagandists in America. Few individuals have done more to...
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Over the weekend, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) appeared for the first time on Univision's Al Punto – the Spanish language equivalent of Meet the Press. His interview followed President Obama.
So what did Boehner have to say?
When asked whether he would "consider" supporting legalization of the undocumented workforce,...
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Faiz Shakir of Think Progress is reporting today in "Rhode Island GOP assemblyman quits party following embarrassment of Wilson's 'you lie' screed:" Ivan Marte, the ex-chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Hispanic Assembly, has announced that he's quitting the Republican Party because he was embarrassed by Rep. Joe...
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NYT editorial urging DHS to keeps its promise on detention reform despite departure of top official; asks for public release of her report (don't hold your breath).
Intersection of health and immigration continues to upset Latino leaders: Reuters blog off of AV press conference last week and NPR interview with...
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Democracia AHORA is the latest Hispanic group to have launched a campaign asking CNN to get rid of Lou Dobbs. They're kicking their campaign off today with a scathing report that reveals that ninety out of the hundred Hispanic leaders interviewed feel that Dobbs has created a negative image...
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