"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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Yesterday, amidst horror over yet another hate crime in Long Island, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a new report entitled,"Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y." NBC covers it, noting that hate crimes against Hispanics rose 40% between 2003 and 2007, according to FBI...
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Suffolk County's chief executive has been branded the "enabler in chief" of anti-immigrant violence by a civil rights group in a report out today.
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Portraying Suffolk County as a hotbed of anti-immigrant violence, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a scathing report Wednesday, citing numerous instances of Latino immigrants being victims of crime over the past decade, ranging from low-level harassment to vicious attacks.
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Today, a media watchdog group, Media Matters For America, just launched an open letter to CNN President Klein asking why in the world they would let one of their anchors headline for a recognized hate group, FAIR, during its DC rally this month. MMFA press statement: "Today, Media Matters...
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On Tuesday, the Center for American Progress (CAP) hosted a panel entitled - "A Case Study in the Coming End of the Culture Wars: Immigration as a Failed Wedge Issue." While the event brought a unique style of summer heat to the immigration debate, the whole panel agreed...
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Today in Immigration Must Reads…Healthcare, Arpaio, and the "Rejiggering" of American Politics....Read 'em.
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Aug 14, 2009
In yesterday's Dallas Morning News, we found an unexpected ally in conservative writer Reuben Navarette, who added his voice to the chorus of groups and leaders demanding the federal government hold Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona accountable for his outrageous abuses of authority under the 287(g) program....
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Not that this is surprising to those of us working on immigration issues, who've been documenting this kind of anti-immigrant extremism for years, but it is disturbing to watch it caught on tape. Consider This News' Peter Daou reports on a recent New Hampshire townhall protest where one demonstrator...
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