No Wonder Latino and Other Voters Are Rejecting GOP Washington, DC – With his sensational spin around a new Congressional Research Service (CRS) memo, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is proving once again that he sees “immigrant” as synonymous with “criminal”—and showing why the Republican Party is having such a...
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With his sensational spin on a new Congressional Research Service (CRS) memo, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is proving once again that he believes “immigrant” to be synonymous with “criminal”—and showing why the Republican Party is having such a hard time courting Latino voters and others with immigrant roots. Smith...
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As the trial against “America’s Toughest Sheriff”, Maricopa County’s Joe Arpaio, continues, the bar has been set high to prove that he is guilty of racial profiling, despite “offensive letters, tearful stories and reams of statistics”. From the Associated Press via the Washington Post: Arpaio has repeatedly denied the...
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This past weekend, the editorial board of the Burlington Times-News in North Carolina roundly criticized local law enforcement officials who plan to attend a “training” hosted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) in Texas. Titled “Law Enforcement is Best to Avoid Bad Company,” the editorial calls the...
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In his column at the New York Daily News, Albor Ruiz explains the critical importance of the immigration issue for Latino voters: Lately much noise has been coming from the Republicans about how immigration is not that big an issue for Hispanics and how it will not turn Latino...
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Most days, Maricopa County’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio acts like a caricature of a Western law man: the cowboy, “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” the man who brought back chain gangs, parades prisoners around in pink underwear, and clearly believes he’s above the rule of law. “After they went after me,” Arpaio...
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