Immigrant advocates are incensed that a number of retailers have decided to sell cartoonish"illegal alien" costumes in their stores this Halloween.
Joshua Hoyt of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights even urged a boycott of stores, according to the Chicago Tribune:
"When a corporation dehumanizes immigrants, the best thing...
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Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), was interviewed Sunday on Univision's news show "Al Punto," hosted by Jorge Ramos. During the interview, Steele declared he was "sick and tired of people playing the hot politics of immigration."
Steele said:
I am hoping the (Obama) administration, as we get...
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Oct 19, 2009
The Arizona Republic , in an editorial today, had some harsh words for "America's Toughest Sheriff", categorically denying that the Sheriff has any federal or state authority to continue conducting these sweeps: "Joe Arpaio's self-promoting "sweeps" may be a lot of things. But "legal" isn't one of them. Clearly,...
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As Andrea Nill reports in "Vitter Vs. The Constitution: Louisiana Senator Pushes Amendment To Prevent Census Count Of Non-Citizens," over at the Wonk Room:
Over the past couple of weeks, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has been trying to sell his and Sen. Robert Bennett's (R-UT) amendment to the Commerce, Justice,...
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News is expected to break today that the Obama administration will grant federal immigration law enforcement authority to this guy:
"I will do another crime suppression very soon to show Washington and everybody else I'm not changing, I will not be intimidated by Congress, by alleged racial profiling investigations by...
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CNN just called to tell us that they won't be airing our ad.
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We came to you with big plans: put a TV commercial on the air, calling on CNN to retire Lou Dobbs and his ugly, race-based rhetoric. Check out the latest version of the ad (we cut it down to 30 seconds).Thanks to your dedication and generosity, we've raised the...
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A crowd of thousands gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday, to lobby for and support immigration reform, as Debayani Kar writes for RaceWire. Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus "presented his key principles for comprehensive immigration reform" at the rally. They include:
pathway to legalization for undocumented...
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Yesterday the GOP launched a trendy, new website at www.GOP.com.
Only one problem: the GOP, according to the Politico's Ben Smith, completely forgot about its future.
Smith reports:
This is, a youngish Republican points out to me this morning, a bit of an unfortunate place for an empty page on the Republican...
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Thousands of people came out across the country to support comprehensive immigration reform around the country today. Here in Washington, several thousand people lobbied their elected officials for serious immigration reform, then held a vigil outside the Capitol in support of family unification. Among those in attendance at the...
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