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Broken Senate Breaks Dreams
Thursday, 11 Mar, 2010 – 6:00 | No Comment
Broken Senate Breaks Dreams

Mario Solis-Marich: There are well over 1 million children in this country without documentation. These young undocumented adults hold great promise for our country’s future, and yet even at this difficult time in our country, when potential should be at a premium, the adults in charge have discarded these students’ gifts out of fear and expediency.

Bill O’Reilly, Pay $10,000 Bet, Says SPLC President
Wednesday, 18 Nov, 2009 – 10:30 | 2 Comments
Bill O’Reilly, Pay $10,000 Bet, Says SPLC President

In an open letter addressed to O’Reilly that was posted yesterday, Cohen states “You lost the bet. Time to pay up!” Granted, O’Reilly’s commitment to the bet was tepid, at best — but Cohen points out that “in the court of public opinion, you lose.”

Well-Intentioned Brookings Report Falls Short on Solutions
Monday, 26 Oct, 2009 – 12:31 | One Comment
Well-Intentioned Brookings Report Falls Short on Solutions

If the Brookings/Kenan report proves one thing, it is that immigration policy is extremely complex, and even the best intentions could have harmful unintended consequences.

ICE Begins Immigration Detention System Overhaul
Saturday, 8 Aug, 2009 – 13:00 | One Comment
ICE Begins Immigration Detention System Overhaul

While improvements to the detention system are necessary and welcomed, it is important to recognize that detaining immigrants is not a long-term solution to a broken immigration system.

Lou Dobbs Show Cites Fear Mongering Anti-Immigrant Astronomist As Population Growth Expert
Friday, 7 Aug, 2009 – 14:04 | 3 Comments
Lou Dobbs Show Cites Fear Mongering Anti-Immigrant Astronomist As Population Growth Expert

Last night, in a segment warning of the environmental perils associated with US population growth, The Lou Dobbs Show featured Ben Zuckerman — an anti-immigrant activist who attempted a nativist takeover of the Sierra Club …

Lou Dobbs Show Promotes Myth That ‘Gaping Loophole’ Will Provide Health Care Coverage For ‘Illegals’
Thursday, 30 Jul, 2009 – 20:12 | 2 Comments
Lou Dobbs Show Promotes Myth That ‘Gaping Loophole’ Will Provide Health Care Coverage For ‘Illegals’

If Congress decides to take up comprehensive immigration reform, there’s also the likely possibility that illegal immigration will be addressed head-on by putting undocumented immigrants on a path to legalization

Kicking Down Doors, Stomping on Rights: New Report Reveals Disturbing Details of ICE Raids
Tuesday, 28 Jul, 2009 – 13:03 | One Comment
Kicking Down Doors, Stomping on Rights: New Report Reveals Disturbing Details of ICE Raids

The researchers also found that the ICE home raids had a negative impact on the local police departments and their ability to do community policing.

Savage Blames Immigrant ‘Gang-Bangers’ For ‘Destroying California’
Wednesday, 24 Jun, 2009 – 5:33 | One Comment
Savage Blames Immigrant ‘Gang-Bangers’ For ‘Destroying California’

Yesterday, Media Matters highlighted statements made by “shock-jock” radio host Michael Savage on his Friday show in which he lashed out at immigrant “gang-bangers” for “destroying California.” Savage, whose inflammatory rhetoric recently got him banned …

Immigration Report Highlights Bush Administration’s ‘Flagrant Disregard For Rule of Law’
Tuesday, 23 Jun, 2009 – 16:50 | One Comment
Immigration Report Highlights Bush Administration’s ‘Flagrant Disregard For Rule of Law’

Two years after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) swept up and detained thousands of workers from six meatpacking plants across the country during one of the nation’s largest immigration raids, a new report …

Department of Homeland Security Suspends “Widow Penalty”
Friday, 12 Jun, 2009 – 18:37 | No Comment
Department of Homeland Security Suspends “Widow Penalty”

This week, the Obama administration took another step toward restoring fairness and humaneness to the immigration system.  On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that she would grant a two-year reprieve …

Beck Decries ‘Empathy’ For ‘Anchor Baby Thing’
Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009 – 18:23 | No Comment
Beck Decries ‘Empathy’ For ‘Anchor Baby Thing’

While railing about the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to temporarily halt the deportation of widows and widowers of U.S. citizens, Fox News’ Glenn Beck yesterday slammed “anchor babies,” the U.S.- born children of immigrants, …

Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Nomination: Obama Gives the Nation Another Teaching Moment
Tuesday, 2 Jun, 2009 – 11:40 | No Comment
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Nomination: Obama Gives the Nation Another Teaching Moment

President Barack Obama has done a symbolically extraordinary thing by nominating for the first time in U.S. history a person of Latino descent to the Supreme Court. The president has stayed true to the theme …

A New Study Reinforces Growing Influence of Second Generation Latinos
Monday, 1 Jun, 2009 – 15:07 | No Comment
A New Study Reinforces Growing Influence of Second Generation Latinos

A new study by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that Latino children now make up 22% of all children under the age of 18 in the U.S.—a huge increase from 9% in 1980. A …

Local Police Report Makes the Case for Federal Enforcement of Immigration Laws
Saturday, 23 May, 2009 – 6:32 | No Comment
Local Police Report Makes the Case for Federal Enforcement of Immigration Laws

This week the Police Foundation issued a long awaited report, The Role of Local Police: Striking a Balance Between Immigration Enforcement and Civil Liberties. The Police Foundation found that because Congress has failed to …

Obama’s Controversial Two-Step Moves in Direction of Immigration Reform
Thursday, 21 May, 2009 – 6:00 | 3 Comments
Obama’s Controversial Two-Step Moves in Direction of Immigration Reform

After boosting border enforcement, the Obama Administration recently announced that it will also increase funding for a troublesome program started by George W. Bush. The controversial program gives Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unregulated access …

Obama Budget Not a Replacement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Tuesday, 12 May, 2009 – 10:14 | No Comment
Obama Budget Not a Replacement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

The Obama Administration appears increasingly poised to move forward on comprehensive immigration reform, as promised. Last Thursday, the White House announced budgetary initiatives that signal a change in priorities and pave the way for immigration …

Sheriff Joe Arpaio to Recruit and Arm Citizens, Neo-Nazis Have His Back
Monday, 11 May, 2009 – 6:50 | One Comment
Sheriff Joe Arpaio to Recruit and Arm Citizens, Neo-Nazis Have His Back

Rather than cleaning up his police department and addressing allegations of racial profiling and discrimination, Arpaio has decided to recruit and arm more Maricopa citizens in the absence of state funds. Back in April, …

Anti-Immigrant Hysterics’ Swine Flu Blame-Game Generates Blowback
Saturday, 2 May, 2009 – 14:04 | One Comment
Anti-Immigrant Hysterics’ Swine Flu Blame-Game Generates Blowback

Jay Severin, a radical right-wing talk show radio host from Boston, has been indefinitely kicked off the air after making some brazen comments, including calling Mexicans “primitives” and “women with mustaches and VD” who “leech” …

Reflections on May Day
Friday, 1 May, 2009 – 9:36 | No Comment
Reflections on May Day

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now! sat down with Alex Sanchez of Homies Unidos and Janis Rosheuvel of Families for Freedom to discuss the nation’s immigration policy, its overall treatment of undocumented immigrants …

Low-Income Latinos and Immigrants Reported “Under Siege” in the South
Friday, 24 Apr, 2009 – 6:03 | No Comment
Low-Income Latinos and Immigrants Reported “Under Siege” in the South

This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new report entitled “Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South.” SLPC report adds to the mounting evidence pointing to the harmful …

Human Rights Organizations Say Immigrants Caught in Detention Dragnet
Saturday, 18 Apr, 2009 – 11:54 | No Comment
Human Rights Organizations Say Immigrants Caught in Detention Dragnet

On any given day, more than 30,000 immigrants are detained in the U.S. More than 300,000 men, women, and children are detained by U.S. immigration authorities each year. ICE reported that the average …

Mexicans Choosing to Weather Economic Storm in Home Country
Monday, 6 Apr, 2009 – 10:06 | No Comment
Mexicans Choosing to Weather Economic Storm in Home Country

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered reviews of many operational aspects of the immigration and border security system and has even delayed a series of proposed immigration raids and other enforcement actions …

Citizen Children Neglected and Deserted in Wake of Immigration Raids
Wednesday, 1 Apr, 2009 – 9:35 | No Comment
Citizen Children Neglected and Deserted in Wake of Immigration Raids

Miguel is a US citizen child who grew up in Minnesota like any other little American boy. But his parents are undocumented workers from El Salvador who worked at the Swift plant in Worthington, Minnesota. …

Unreliable Immigration Data Is Out of Date and Context
Friday, 13 Mar, 2009 – 16:48 | No Comment
Unreliable Immigration Data Is Out of Date and Context

Newspaper and television are running a narrow story quoting out-of-date and out-of-context data prepared by the immigration restrictionist group, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), who is alleging that 300,000 “illegal immigrants” will benefit from …

Why Millions Risk Lives to Enter the U.S.
Tuesday, 27 Jan, 2009 – 7:00 | Comments Off
Why Millions Risk Lives to Enter the U.S.

Immigration policy remains a hot button issue in the United States. Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel has described comprehensive immigration legislation as the “third rail” of American politics, and CNN provides Lou Dobbs with …

Pardon Me, Scooter?
Sunday, 18 Jan, 2009 – 17:00 | One Comment
Pardon Me, Scooter?

I want to propose for Outgoing President George W. Bush yet another act of political bravado. Last year, Bush pardoned convicted felon and former top White House staffer Scooter Libby for his convictions on five …

“Climb Aboard Little Wog, Sail Away With Me…”*
Monday, 8 Dec, 2008 – 7:00 | One Comment
“Climb Aboard Little Wog, Sail Away With Me…”*

by H. Scott Prosterman –
Watching Wednesday’s naturalization ceremony for 1,161 new Americans in San Francisco was inspiring and poignant. It was inspiring to watch people from 96 different countries proudly stand when the name of …

End the War on Immigrants: Bringing It All Back Home
Wednesday, 26 Nov, 2008 – 6:00 | One Comment
End the War on Immigrants: Bringing It All Back Home

When the Bush administration came up with a special classification, “enemy combatant,” and a special site—Guantánamo—to put prisoners beyond the purview of human and legal rights, I had a shock of recognition. The trial run …

Largest U.S. Fast Aims to Turn Out Voters
Sunday, 12 Oct, 2008 – 9:25 | No Comment
Largest U.S. Fast Aims to Turn Out Voters

The largest hunger strike in U.S. history will begin Oct. 15, to call attention to voter mobilization, immigrant rights organizers say. One hundred dedicated activists will encamp at the historic heart of Los Angeles — …

McCain-Palin Attacks Fall Flat with Latinos
Monday, 22 Sep, 2008 – 7:00 | 4 Comments
McCain-Palin Attacks Fall Flat with Latinos

The Republican attack machine has launched a multifaceted offensive to falsely accuse Democrat Barack Obama of being anti-immigrant. In Spanish-language ads directed at Latino voters in the battleground states of Florida, New Mexico, Colorado and …

Angry Organizer to RNC: “Go to Hell!”
Monday, 8 Sep, 2008 – 7:00 | 9 Comments
Angry Organizer to RNC: “Go to Hell!”

At the Republican National Convention, Palin and Giuliani mocked Obama’s experience as a community organizer and the attending crowd laughed in response.
Palin and McCain can wear whatever “outsider” mask they wish, nothing can hide the …

Immigration Inspires Hope, Fear, and Debate Among Convention Democrats
Saturday, 30 Aug, 2008 – 8:20 | No Comment
Immigration Inspires Hope, Fear, and Debate Among Convention Democrats

On the eve of the official nomination of Presidential candidate Barack Obama, the son of an immigrant, some of the leading voices shaping the Democratic Party’s immigration reform platform reveal a mix of reserved optimism …

Republicans are Cowards
Thursday, 31 Jul, 2008 – 8:11 | No Comment
Republicans are Cowards

I have concluded that Republicans are, by their very nature, cowards. Let us look at the evidence.
First, instead of fighting a war that we really should have been fighting (like addressing real issues about who …

Notas por La Casa Politica
Sunday, 18 May, 2008 – 17:49 | One Comment
Notas por La Casa Politica

How can I vote for a candidate who doesn’t care about us?
Race, sex, and age are always issues in every political campaign.
In every political campaign, a successful candidate will confront racism, acknowledge economic inequality, and …

It’s Not Just McArthur Park
Monday, 14 May, 2007 – 12:46 | No Comment
It’s Not Just McArthur Park

Organized as a peaceful May Day March and immigration rights rally, the events held at MacArthur Park last week turned violent when members of the Los Angeles Police stormed into the mostly peaceful crowd of …

Bridges, Not Walls
Sunday, 14 May, 2006 – 13:23 | No Comment
Bridges, Not Walls

Recently, the Los Angeles Times published an article on the growing unease some Blacks feel about the recent immigrant-rights controversy. The topic has been covered on a host of radio and television programs as well …

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