Oct 28, 2010
Appeals heard on the campaign trail this year are inflammatory and move the immigration issue in the wrong direction. They are based on erroneous assumptions and misguided arguments. These claims play to popular fears and emotions rather than reasoned debate over the controversy.
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Good stuff from my friends at Cuéntame. Sometimes you've just got to laugh to keep from crying.
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"Angle and her campaign's ad team will go down in history for running a dirty campaign that seeks to demonize hard-working Latino immigrants as criminals and thugs," said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, in a statement to The Huffington Post. "With Politifact labeling her claims as false,...
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Watch Gabe Gonzalez from the Campaign for Community Change call out Sharron Angle on her most recent racist ads in her bid for Nevada's Senate seat. Last night, Gonzalez joined Keith Olbermann to discuss the blatantly anti-Latino ads Sharron Angle's camp released this week.
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We're running out of ways to describe Sharron Angle's predictably race-baiting immigration ads, but this latest one entitled "The Wave" (screenshots at right) might just take the cake. Not to mention that, despite Angle's absurd claim last week that her ads weren't about the southern border, there's a shot...
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If you thought Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070, was controversial, keep reading.
Republican State Legislator (FL), William Snyder (pictured at right, to the left), has proposed a new immigration bill for his state, modeled after the infamous Arizona law that has people all over the country in a tizzy over...
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Oct 20, 2010
Sharron Angle did not show up at the huge Tea Party Express rally in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. But the event was almost entirely in support of her and the divisive, anti-immigrant platform she has promoted in her accelerating drive to replace Senator Harry Reid.
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Immigration has been the subject of many attack ads in the final stretch of campaigning for mid-term elections. Host Michel Martin talks with Matt Barreto, a political science professor at University of Washington, and media consultant Lionel Sosa.
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Building on race-baiting campaigns that demonize immigrants and deploy Spanish-language ads to suppress Latino turnout, many 2010 Republican candidates have embraced a disturbing new vision for U.S. immigration policy. The vision, touted recently by high-profile Republican Senate candidates Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Mark Kirk in Illinois, and Joe Miller...
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For nearly a year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has been desperately trying to devise a way to energize Hispanic voters in his quest to secure a fifth term, and his GOP opponent and a GOP-linked group may have just handed him two.
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