Grassroots leaders are turning up the volume on calls for the Obama Administration and Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform this year. Their efforts will culminate in a huge rally on the national mall, set for March 21, where tens of thousands of Americans and immigrants will demand...
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Feb 26, 2010
This week the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the "think tank" of the anti-immigrant lobby, announced the results of a "new" poll purporting to show that people of color, including Latinos, support their anti-immigrant agenda. Coming from the same group whose leader recently argued that Judge Sotomayor should...
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Recent developments indicate that the schism in the Republican Party over Latino outreach and immigration reform is beginning to widen. While some Republican lawmakers continue to use the immigration issue as a wedge to try to block progress on every major issue the Democratic Congress takes up—such as...
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The news that former U.S. House member and anti-immigration zealot J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) is challenging Senator John McCain (R-AZ) in a Republican primary offers a fresh reminder of the GOP's dangerous schism when it comes to immigration politics.
While anti-immigration ideology is red meat to a contingent of those voting...
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In an interview published today in the nation's largest Spanish-language newspaper, La Opinión and other ImpreMedia publications, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reasserted her commitment to advancing comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, and expressed continued opposition to immigration raids that tear apart American families.
During the interview, Speaker Pelosi...
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Roy Beck, the executive director of Numbers USA, the immigration restriction group, has removed his mask and eviscerated his long-standing claim to being a "mainstream" activist who shuns immigrant bashing.
First, he showed up at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville this week. Then, during the nativism-riddled speech...
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The Latino vote has grown exponentially since 2000, changing the political landscape in more than a dozen states across the country, and is poised to be pivotal yet again in the 2010 cycle. According to experts on the politics of the Latino vote, who gathered on a telephonic...
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Feb 3, 2010
America's Voice announced today the beginning of an online advertising campaign to encourage Americans to contact Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA) and demand that he remove his name from controversial immigration resolution H.Res. 1026, the so-called "BRIDGE Resolution."
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