While the stretches of tug-of-war continued between Republicans and Democrats (and internally between the parties) about how to respond to the pressure for action on the immigration front raised by the enactment of law S.B. 1070 in Arizona, the group of young students who walked from Miami to the federal capital, Washington, D.C. for immigration reform and the law that that would legalize them, the DREAM Act, challenged the government to shoulder its responsibility and provide real solutions to the immigration limbo of millions.
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05/22/12 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley pulled a complete reversal on HB 658 last weekend, caving in and signing a bill that makes the state’s already harsh anti-immigrant policies even worse–after he had initially expressed reservations and a wish to see the…
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05/22/12 Detroit: Home to Kid Rock, Eminem, and one of America’s most rogue ICE agencies.
Detroit ICE agents are known as some of the most aggressive immigration agents in the country. Just last year, they were targeting parents they suspected of…
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05/22/12 Alabama and its anti-immigrant legislative vendetta have been in the news for the past few weeks. And we’re awaiting a Supreme Court decision on Arizona’s SB 1070. But we can’t forget about the other states that have passed these ugly…
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05/22/12 The Colbert Report is on hiatus this week, but the topic of immigration is currently front-paged on their website as one of five hot button issues. Watch the clip below:
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05/21/12 Senator Scott Beason — the guy who once said that we should “empty the clip, and do what has to be done [on illegal immigration]“; referred to people at a casino in a predominately black county as “aborigines”; and author…
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05/21/12 Great read from the Associated Press today about DREAMers and the growing movement of students who are defying the law, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and their parents by “coming out” publicly as undocumented.
From the article:
It began several years…
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05/21/12 Big news from the US Census Bureau this week: for the first time, ethnic minority babies are the majority of children born in the US. Plenty of blogs and editorials have covered the seismic shift, pointing out that these demographic changes will transform policies…
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05/21/12 We’ve been publishing a series of posts from the DREAMers of the Campaign for an American DREAM. In March, they set off from San Francisco to begin a 3,000-mile, 8-month walk to Washington, DC to call attention to the DREAM Act and the…
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05/18/12 This week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) went on Fox News Latino to discuss immigration, the Latino vote, and the 2012 election with Juan Williams.
He started out strong, discussing how important the Latino vote will be in November and admitting…
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05/18/12 Cross-Posted at Mom’s Rising:
“Russian Women are no longer the best kept secret of the cold war” notes the website of Encounters International, the mail-order bride company that is lobbying hard for the passage of the scary Republican version of…
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05/18/12 Yesterday, the Census Bureau reported that, in 2011, 50.4% of all births in the United States were to minorities:
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades…
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05/17/12 Today, United We DREAM, DREAMers, and activists are holding at least 25 different protests across 16 different states to mark the launch of their “Right to DREAM” campaign. The nationwide action calls for increased protection for DREAMers and their families…
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05/17/12 BREAKING: Governor Bentley has refused to sign the new legislation, HB 658, saying that he has proposed amendments and that immigration will be addressed in a special legislative session. More details soon.
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Ignoring the fierce criticism, reminders of the state’s…
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05/16/12 In 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Florida raided the home of Adolfo Garcia and Julio Diaz, reportedly in search of human traffickers. Although no one in the home was involved in trafficking, the agents stormed the house…
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05/16/12 Tomorrow, United We Dream (UWD) is hosting rallies, marches and protests as part of its “Right to DREAM” campaign’s National Day of Action. Frustrated with the Obama Administration, undocumented youth around the country are calling on President Obama to keep…
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