After a huge push to drive up turnout, and after event organizers promised to storm Congress with anti-immigration citizen lobbyists this week, a mere fifty (yes, 50) people showed up for the Federation for American Immigration Reform's (FAIR) annual "Hold their Feet to the Fire" event in Washington, DC...
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Outside the Capitol Sept. 15 bishops of three denominations led a brief prayer service for an end to hate, particularly hatred toward immigrants.
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The Smithsonian Institution acknowledged it mistakenly rented space to an advocacy group that one civil rights organization calls a hate group.
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Sep 15, 2009
The leading anti-immigrant group and its supporters are descending on Washington DC this week, as part of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)'s "Week of Action." The real motive behind their anti-immigrant agenda was exposed yesterday during a telephonic press conference by several experts and advocates for...
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Health care and undocumented immigrants is all the rage since Joe Wilson insulted the President last week. Remarkably, Baucus and the White House have responded by seeming to cave.
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If you saw a woman struck by a car, would you call an ambulance right away? Or would you first ask for her papers to make sure she was not an illegal immigrant?
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Sep 10, 2009
It's obvious that the specter of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is being used by politicians like Rep. Joe Wilson as a divisive wedge issue-- he has become a mouthpiece for groups whose main agendas are rooted in white nationalism, fear, and xenophobia. One such organization is the Federation for American...
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As Media Matters notes, Lou Dobbs took the opportunity last night to pat Glenn Beck on the back for extreme comments on air that Obama is a "racist--" comments which caused dozens of advertisers to dump their ads on Beck's program in August. Lou seems to be coming increasingly...
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"The authors of the chain e-mail and the phony government report fear what Los Angeles has become -- a multilingual, multiethnic city with multicultural tastes. They search for information to persuade others to be afraid, but the actual numbers don't quite add up to the big monster they think...
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A new report entitled "Climate of Fear," released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center, has exposed something ugly lying just beneath the surface of American politics and American life. The report highlights how Latino immigrants in Suffolk County, have become frequent victims of violence and racial intimidation--...
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