Nov 1, 2010
In an election year when Democrats are accusing the GOP of being anti-immigrant, Hispanic candidates are poised to make historic gains Tuesday – on the Republican ticket.
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Migrants in Europe, the United States and many other parts of the world are subjected to the worst forms of racial discrimination and xenophobia, a U.N. independent investigator said Monday.
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Last Friday we asked for help to make sure that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his volunteer "army" would not be intimidating Latino voters out of participating in the cornerstone of our democracy: voting. We asked our supporters to send a message to the DOJ to send monitors down to...
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Oct 31, 2010
Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader fighting to hold his seat in Nevada, said on Sunday he planned to bring the Dream Act legislation to a vote in the post-election session of Congress.
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The continuing arrival of immigrants to American shores is encouraging business activity here, thereby producing more jobs, according to a new study. Its authors argue that the easier it is to find cheap immigrant labor at home, the less likely that production will relocate offshore.
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Federal observers and officials from the U.S. Department of Justice will monitor polls at Maricopa, Apache and Navajo counties on Election Day as voters cast their ballots for congressional, state and local candidates and 10 ballot propositions.
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This is truly sickening. Maricopa County's infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio just sent this shocking message to his followers: "STOP ILLEGALS FROM STEALING THE ELECTION! Our grassroots army of VOTER FRAUD PREVENTION VOLUNTEERS will stand vigilant across the nation. We will be the first and strongest line of defense to...
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Today's Los Angeles Times reports: "Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman has reignited a controversy that roiled her campaign for weeks, saying the undocumented housekeeper she employed for nine years should be deported....The deportation remark represents the kind of hard-line stance that Whitman sought to avoid for most of the...
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The 2010 mid-term campaign season is shaping up to be one of the most vicious and vitriolic in recent memory -- especially when it comes to the issue of immigration. Distortions, lies, and stereotypes have dominated the airwaves when it comes to immigration, and Latino Americans in this nation....
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Curious if Sharron Angle's race-baiting campaign, which has upped the ante on demonizing Latinos and immigrants (see images at right) and has become the focus of major Latino voter mobilization efforts are contributing to the new "Democratic early voter surge" being reported in Nevada.
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