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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Rep. Gutierrez (D-IL) says yes to community call to introduce immigration reform legislation. There's a Washington Times piece that actually captures what's happening on the immigration and health care debate. Sen. Menendez, who is on the Senate Finance Committee, prepares to play a key role on immigrants...
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Yesterday Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) spoke at the National Citizenship Day celebration in Washington, DC, in front of hundreds of community leaders and Members of Congress, who urged him to introduce real immigration reform legislation, real soon. To an eager crowd, Rep. Gutierrez announced that he would introduce such...
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Few of us have seen the world as Jose Hernandez has…literally. On Monday, José M. Hernández, an American astronaut and son of Mexican immigrant farm workers, announced that America should legalize undocumented immigrants, saying, according to the Associated Press: "The American economy needs them…I believe it's only fair to...
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After a huge push to drive up turnout, and after event organizers promised to storm Congress with anti-immigration citizen lobbyists this week, a mere fifty (yes, 50) people showed up for the Federation for American Immigration Reform's (FAIR) annual "Hold their Feet to the Fire" event in Washington, DC...
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The immigration debate seems to be rushing forward on its own timetable—and without a structured frame to guide it, the effort is damaged from the start. As Rev. Luis Cortés, Jr., of Esperanza USA said during a call with media members yesterday, Democrats and Republicans are "running toward the...
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