What does Sheriff Arpaio do when he's criticized?
Faiz Shakir and his team at Think Progress have a damning rundown of what many are calling "Arpaio's Abuse Of Power." From the Progress Report:
This weekend, news reports revealed that the FBI is investigating whether Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been...
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Blogger "Chris in Paris" reported today on AMERICABlog about CNBC's outrageous coverage of what should have been (and is) a proud moment for America-- an American winning the New York marathon for the first time in decades. He argues: "What an amazingly ignorant thing to say. The CNBC editor...
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We've all seen immigration play out as the hot-button issue that talk radio hosts love to flog, but today Joseph Boven has a thorough rundown of how immigration is actually playing out in elections -- politicians beware. According to his piece in today's Colorado Independent:"According to nonpartisan pollster Floyd...
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Nov 2, 2009
A front-page article in today's New York Times takes a peek into an immigration detention center in the heart of Manhattan and finds that the detention system continues to have serious problems. Here's how former detainees describe conditions at the Varick Street Detention Facility: "...cramped, filthy quarters where dire...
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America's top religious and law enforcement leaders are taking a strong stance in favor of sensible immigration reform and it's made the anti-immigrant crowd very nervous.
In response, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the anti-immigrant lobby's "think tank," released two reports, written by the same author, claiming that Los...
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Jennifer McFayden over at About.com writes: "Peaceful, maybe, but ALIPAC president William Gheen is known for his hard line approach." She quotes him saying telling Congressman Gutierrez (D-IL) to ""Make my day punk!"(Seriously?) and then goes on to say, "I don't know what poll Gheen is using, but if...
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From Joaquin Guerra, over at the SEIU Blog-- the latest action in response to the Vitter-Bennet Amendment: "Some politicians come up with dumb ideas. Some come up with impractical ideas that would cost taxpayers millions of dollars. And then there are those lawmakers with crazy proposals that would violate...
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Together, we raised the $16,000 needed to run our TV ad on CNN – telling the station to drop Lou Dobbs's one-sided, anti-immigrant "news" show.
Unfortunately, CNN isn't having it. They called to say they won't take our money and have refused to air our "Drop the Hate" TV ad.
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Anti-immigration groups and pundits cling to phrases like "Illegal Alien" because they only focus on foreignness and danger. These extreme factions are all about casting immigrants as what ails our society, conjuring up demons upon which to focus national ire, and perpetuating a subhuman category of being. It's a...
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The Minutemen PAC, has gotten deeply involved in a New York Congressional race. Andrea Nill reports: "Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate for New York's traditionally Republican 23rd District, has just won the right-wing support of the Minuteman Political Action Committee — the political action arm of a "nativist...
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