Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will get an earful this week about why it's time for Congress to tackle comprehensive immigration reform, and Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, will likely be making this case when she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, December 10th.
Continue
»
Last week, a conglomeration of anti-immigrant groups, led by "Help Save Maryland" and FAIR (recognized a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center), organized a rally against my organization, CASA de Maryland.
The heavily promoted rally, which was announced in CAPITAL LETTERS on the website of Help Save Maryland,...
Continue
»
There are those in Washington who doubt the possibility of passing comprehensive immigration reform, and while they say it's too hard, Cokie Roberts, news analyst for NPR, claims immigration reform - though challenging - is "reform that's right stuff." In an Op-Ed piece to the Trentonian today, Cokie explains...
Continue
»
Quick note that that the oracle of the anti-immigration lobby, James R. Edwards, has given us another brilliant contribution to his "blame the immigrants" cannon. This time it's immigrants screwing up health reform, but don't be fooled: there's plenty more bashing where that came from.
See, Edwards is the...
Continue
»
How's this for irony: the extremist group behind the drive to recruit Lou Dobbs into a presidential run has yanked support for their one-time champion.
While bloggers debated whether Dobbs was too mean to be President, it came out that he was no longer mean enough for the extreme base...
Continue
»
The blogosphere has been abuzz this week over a story that the Salvation Army of Houston was forcing families to present Social Security cards to receive free Christmas toys. Now we've learned that the outcry has forced the organization to reverse its policy and allow all families to participate.
Continue
»
The Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is shifting its focus to silent or "quiet" raids, as Erin Rosa reports for Campus Progress. In quiet raids, ICE conducts "audits" of staff at pre-selected organizations and gives employers a chance to fire all workers who cannot produce...
Continue
»
The New York Times writes today that new reports from Human Rights Watch and the bipartisan Constitution Project say the immigration detention system "lacks basic fairness."
Continue
»
The debate over legalizing farm workers has always been marked by the controversial question of labor conditions and migrants' lives, health and housing. But this time, labor organization and farmers are in agreement that passing an AgJOBS bill is a shared necessity.
Continue
»
Yesterday the New York Times reported that Dobbs was in conversation with CNBC, and many of us asked the question, "Is CNBC ready for Dobbs?" Looks like the answer is a resounding, "no gracias." Network executives didn't give us much time to put pressure on them, announcing by the...
Continue
»
