04/03/12 It's been six months since Alabama began implementing its worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law HB 56. The Alabama state legislature has been in session since mid-February—and will only remain in session until mid-May—yet no legislative action has been taken to repeal the law.
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04/03/12 Writing at Huffington Post, Rep. Luis Gutierrez lets loose on Republican Senators, including Marco Rubio, for their craven attempt to score cheap political points at the expense of the DREAMers. Gutierrez blasts what he calls the "Stolen Dreams" Act.
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04/03/12 Writing at Huffington Post, Rep. Luis Gutierrez lets loose on Republican Senators, including Marco Rubio, for their craven attempt to score cheap political points at the expense of the DREAMers. Gutierrez blasts what he calls the "Stolen Dreams" Act.
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04/02/12 Legislators in Alabama are gearing up to announce changes to H.B. 56. Rumor has it that they are interested in only making "tweaks" to the law, but as we clearly know: we need more than just tweaks
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04/02/12 Legislators in Alabama are gearing up to announce changes to H.B. 56. Rumor has it that they are interested in only making "tweaks" to the law, but as we clearly know: we need more than just tweaks
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04/02/12 Alabama's legislative session ends on May. So far, there has been no legislative action aimed at undoing the damage done by HB 56. So, a group of faith leaders are upping the ante. Tomorrow, they're going to unveil a "hard-hitting" tv ad urging the Legislature to act.
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04/02/12 Alabama's legislative session ends on May. So far, there has been no legislative action aimed at undoing the damage done by HB 56. So, a group of faith leaders are upping the ante. Tomorrow, they're going to unveil a "hard-hitting" tv ad urging the Legislature to act.
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04/02/12 As we've been writing about all week, House Immigration Subcommittee Republicans like Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) hit a new low on Wednesday with their "Holiday on ICE" detention hearing, in which they spent some 90 minutes insisting that our nation shouldn't bother providing immigrant detainees with adequate health care.
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03/30/12 A range of stories today focus on Republican problems with Latino voters. It appears that across the Party GOP leaders are finally recognizing that courting Latino voters in the fall is threatened by an anti-immigrant, anti-Latino brand that has been cemented by the Republican primary.
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03/30/12 We got an update on this year's Walk Against Fear. The marchers, who are following the 1966 path of civil rights pioneer James Meredith, will hold a Rally Against Racism on April 7th in Jackson, Mississippi.
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03/30/12 We got an update on this year's Walk Against Fear. The marchers, who are following the 1966 path of civil rights pioneer James Meredith, will hold a Rally Against Racism on April 7th in Jackson, Mississippi.
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03/29/12 "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)," according to People for the American Way, "is a front group for powerful corporate interests that is behind and actually writes some of the most extreme right-wing bills in state legislatures across the country."
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03/29/12 "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)," according to People for the American Way, "is a front group for powerful corporate interests that is behind and actually writes some of the most extreme right-wing bills in state legislatures across the country."
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03/29/12 The news that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) endorsed Mitt Romney for President has led to another round of pundit speculation about Rubio's vice presidential prospects, which Rubio demurely "rejects." But the chatter continues because some within the GOP apparently think that adding Rubio to the ticket could help the Party recover from its free-fall with Latino voters.
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03/29/12 Sixty-eight House Congressmen joined forces today in a charge against Arizona's arch-anti-immigrant law SB 1070, releasing an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court which argues that immigration is a federal rather than a state priority.
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03/29/12 Sixty-eight House Congressmen joined forces today in a charge against Arizona's arch-anti-immigrant law SB 1070, releasing an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court which argues that immigration is a federal rather than a state priority.
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03/28/12 Earlier this week, The Hill newspaper reported that Senate Republicans, led by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), are pursuing an alternative, stripped down version of the DREAM Act in an attempt to improve the Party's standing with Latino voters.
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03/28/12 As the House Immigration Subcommittee hearing, "Holiday on ICE," gets underway, a press call today highlighted flagrant and repeated violations inside our nation's immigrant detention centers and questioned why House Republicans are making light of an issue so seriously in need of reform.
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03/28/12 As the House Immigration Subcommittee hearing, "Holiday on ICE," gets underway, a press call today highlighted flagrant and repeated violations inside our nation's immigrant detention centers and questioned why House Republicans are making light of an issue so seriously in need of reform.
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03/28/12 Today at 1:30, the U.S. House Immigration Subcommittee will renew its attack on immigrants with a hearing to "examine" the Obama Administration's updated Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS).
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03/28/12 Today at 1:30, the U.S. House Immigration Subcommittee will renew its attack on immigrants with a hearing to "examine" the Obama Administration's updated Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS).
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03/28/12 Today at 1:30, the U.S. House Immigration Subcommittee will renew its attack on immigrants with a hearing to "examine" the Obama Administration's updated Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS).
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03/28/12 A few weeks ago, the right-wing Daily Caller ran a piece with the sensational headline "Transgender hormone treatments, abortion access for detained illegals irks congressman." It's about House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith's opposition to humane treatment of immigrants detained by our government as they fight deportation.
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03/28/12 A few weeks ago, the right-wing Daily Caller ran a piece with the sensational headline "Transgender hormone treatments, abortion access for detained illegals irks congressman." It's about House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith's opposition to humane treatment of immigrants detained by our government as they fight deportation.
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03/27/12 A concept originally envisioned by Romney advisor Kris Kobach and facilitated by the hyper-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the "self-deportation" theory holds, improbably, that if you make life so intolerable and terrorizing for undocumented immigrants in the United States they will pack up their lives and their families and leave on their own.
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03/27/12 California's GOP primary isn't until June 5, but frontrunner Mitt Romney is spending part of this week in California fundraising, which means that the DREAMers bird-dogging him have big plans in California too.
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03/27/12 Rep. Lamar Smith and his anti-immigrant colleagues are opening another front in the war on women. With the help of Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, they're targeting women in detention – including undocumented immigrants, mothers, lawful permanent residents, survivors of torture, asylum seekers, and pregnant women.
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