“On Immigration, ‘A Mistake Has Been Made’ And Supreme Court Must Fix It” Yesterday, the 5th Circuit Appeals Court announced their decision in the case against President Obama’s executive actions on deportation. While the outcome was expected, the timing of the decision, as well as Judge Carolyn Dineen King’s important...
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Over a half a million people asked Saturday Night Live to dump Donald Trump as host, but if you stomached this weekend’s show then you know Lorne Michaels went through with Trump’s appearance and the show was an utter disaster! After watching Trump on SNL, it was clear that the #RacismIsntFunny activists...
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Nov 8, 2015
Juan Escalante: “SNL May Have Gained Ratings, But NBC Lost Any Ounce of Credibility they Had By Providing a Platform” to Donald Trump For those of us who didn’t watch Donald Trump on ‘Saturday Night Live’ last night, a quick Internet search shows that the critics feel it was...
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AUDIO RECORDING OF CALL AVAILABLE HERE Leaders in the Latino and Progressive Community Say NBC is Mainstreaming Trump’s Extreme Anti-Immigrant Agenda As New Open Letter Calls on SNL Cast to Speak Out Against Hate On a press call this afternoon, leaders with the #RacismIsntFunny campaign discussed how disturbing incidents of violence and aggression toward immigrants and Latinos...
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As NBC is set to mainstream Donald Trump’s bigotry on “Saturday Night Live” in a matter of hours, the horrific beating of an immigrant woman in Minnesota for not speaking English in public is beginning to attract national attention. From KARE 11 Minneapolis/St. Paul: Jodie Marie Burchard-Risch, 43, was...
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More than Half a Million Petition Signers and John Leguizamo Agree that Racism Just Isn’t Funny Last night, leaders from a host of Latino and immigrant rights groups rallied and delivered over 520,000 petition signatures calling on NBC to rescind Donald Trump’s “Saturday Night Live” hosting invitation, set for...
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Lynn Tramonte: “El senador ha caído a lo más bajo; los votantes pro inmigrantes seguramente no se olvidarán de esto” Varios de los principales observadores informaron sobre el significado de la declaración de ayer del precandidato presidencial republicano Marco Rubio, en el sentido de que pondría fin al programa de...
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Last night, leaders from a host of Latino and immigrant rights groups rallied and delivered over 520,000 petition signatures calling on NBC to rescind Donald Trump’s “Saturday Night Live” hosting invitation, set for this weekend. The #RacismIsntFunny campaign and petition drive was a collaborative effort between multiple organizations including...
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Lynn Tramonte: “Si no va a defender a los DREAMers y a otros inmigrantes, ¿cómo podemos esperar que enfrente a los congresistas de línea dura y finalmente se apruebe la reforma migratoria? Durante un evento este día en New Hampshire, el precandidato presidencial republicano Marco Rubio declaró pondría fin al programa...
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Lynn Tramonte: “If He Won’t Stand up For Dreamers and Other Immigrants, How Can We Expect Him to Stand Up to Hardliners in Congress and Finally Pass Immigration Reform?” At an event today in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio stated that he would end the Deferred Action for...
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