Today, the United States Department of Justice took a strong and welcome step towards ending Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror. In its three year investigation of the Sheriff's policing practices, DOJ found evidence of what we've long known. Arpaio has "engage in a...
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A series of media outlets reported yesterday that a key phrase embedded in Mitt Romney's stump speech and campaign advertisements, "Keep America American," turns out to be a slogan the Ku Klux Klan used in the 1920s to protest the arrival of Irish immigrants. Separate from the specific...
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A series of media outlets reported yesterday that a key phrase embedded in Mitt Romney's stump speech and campaign advertisements, "Keep America American," turns out to be a slogan the Ku Klux Klan used in the 1920s to protest the arrival of Irish immigrants. Separate from the specific...
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Today's launch of the Iowa Compact charts a sensible course on immigration policy – a welcome contrast to the "papers, please" crackdowns passed in Arizona and Alabama, and the rhetoric dominating this issue among GOP 2012 presidential contenders. According to a raft of new polling, the sentiment behind...
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Today's launch of the Iowa Compact charts a sensible course on immigration policy – a welcome contrast to the "papers, please" crackdowns passed in Arizona and Alabama, and the rhetoric dominating this issue among GOP 2012 presidential contenders. According to a raft of new polling, the sentiment behind...
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The Supreme Court yesterday decided to review the federal government's challenge to Arizona's restrictive immigration law, SB 1070. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice Education Fund: "We fully expect the Supreme Court to uphold the U.S. Constitution and long-standing court rulings which have held that immigration...
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The Supreme Court yesterday decided to review the federal government's challenge to Arizona's restrictive immigration law, SB 1070. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice Education Fund: "We fully expect the Supreme Court to uphold the U.S. Constitution and long-standing court rulings which have held that immigration...
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At Saturday night's Republican presidential debate, most of the candidates continued to demonstrate how out of step they are with the public's wishes on immigration. As new Fox News polling makes clear, Mitt Romney and other candidates espousing mass deportation positions appeal to a very narrow sliver of...
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