**** PRESS ADVISORY**** TODAY: Friday, November 6th at 12 pm ET To Join: Dial 1-888-632-3383; Passcode “SNL” PRESS CALL: #RacismIsntFunny Leaders to Speak Out on Why Donald Trump Should Have No Place on SNL Press Call to Feature Victims of Trump Fan Aggression, New Letter to Call on SNL Cast to Speak Out Against Hate On...
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More than Half a Million Petition Signers and John Leguizamo Agree that Racism Just Isn’t Funny Last night, leaders from a host of Latino and immigrant rights groups rallied and delivered over 520,000 petition signatures calling on NBC to rescind Donald Trump’s “Saturday Night Live” hosting invitation, set for...
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Lynn Tramonte: “Senator Rubio has Sunk to a New Low; Pro-Immigration Voters Will Certainly Remember” A number of leading observers reported on the significance of Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s statement yesterday that he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as President, regardless of whether Congress has passed immigration...
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Lynn Tramonte: “If He Won’t Stand up For Dreamers and Other Immigrants, How Can We Expect Him to Stand Up to Hardliners in Congress and Finally Pass Immigration Reform?” At an event today in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio stated that he would end the Deferred Action for...
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**** PETITION DELIVERY AND MEDIA AVAILABILITY**** TODAY, November 4th at 6pm ET NBC Studios, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York With Donald Trump’s appearance as host of Saturday Night Live just days away, Latino and immigration groups, along with their allies, have collected now 520,000 petition signatures (with a big help from Change.org, CREDO...
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Lynn Tramonte: “Speaker Ryan is Picking Up Where Speaker Boehner Left Off, with Disastrous Consequences for the Country as Well as Their Own Party” Washington, DC—Another day, another round of criticism, calling out Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) for his capitulation to the most extremist members of his party on...
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Lynn Tramonte: “Republicans Continue to Shrink From Leadership and Allow The Nativists in the Party to Run Amok” In Congress, the courts, and the 2016 campaign trail, the Republican Party continues to cede control to the anti-immigrant wing of the Party. Among the latest reminders: In Congress, newly-elected Republican Speaker...
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Greg Sargent’s “Morning Plum” today gets Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) immigration promise on the Sunday shows exactly right. Sargent writes: “Incoming Speaker Paul Ryan this weekend went out of his way to reassure conservatives: Republicans will not enter into any bipartisan compromising with Obama on immigration reform. No sirree: “‘Specifically on this...
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