03/16/12 Kobach, a leading anti-immigrant voice, is the architect of Arizona's SB 1070 and Alabama's HB 56. But, he's got a day job as the Secretary of State for Kansas. And, people in Kansas are wondering if where his priorities lie: With the people of Kansas who pay his salary or with his anti-immigrant work.
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03/16/12 Kobach, a leading anti-immigrant voice, is the architect of Arizona's SB 1070 and Alabama's HB 56. But, he's got a day job as the Secretary of State for Kansas. And, people in Kansas are wondering if where his priorities lie: With the people of Kansas who pay his salary or with his anti-immigrant work.
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03/15/12 A delegation of civil rights leaders -- including Wade Henderson (The Leadership Conference), Eliseo Medina (SEIU), and Dae Joong Yoon (National Korean American Service and Education Consortium -- NAKASEC) -- are in South Korea, where they will be protesting Hyundai for the company's decision to stay quiet on Alabama's anti-immigrant law.
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03/15/12 We provided an analysis of the POLITICO article, How Mitt Romney Lost Latinos, in the post below. There's a lot in that article, including a mention that Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) is trying to be the voice of reason.
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03/15/12 We provided an analysis of the POLITICO article, How Mitt Romney Lost Latinos, in the post below. There's a lot in that article, including a mention that Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) is trying to be the voice of reason.
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03/15/12 Here's a memo to Rick Santorum: you're not winning the GOP primary. You don't have delegates you can afford to lose. And alienating people by dismissing their culture is no way to win votes.
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03/15/12 In an article entitled, "How Mitt Romney Lost Latinos," POLITICO's Glenn Thrush details how the Republican presidential frontrunner may have sealed his fate with Latino voters by fully embracing the vision of anti-immigrant architect Kris Kobach.
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03/14/12 Hyundai's corporate headquarters may be in Seoul, but the company has enormous influence over Alabama politicians. And, Alabama's elected officials have been more than willing to open the state's coffers to Hyundai.
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03/14/12 The Obama administration's newest guidelines for prosecutorial discretion are seven months old—yet cases which should be dismissed are still coming up every day. A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Daniela Palaez, the Florida valedictorian in danger of imminent deportation. Today we're writing about Gabino Sanchez, a 27-year-old father of two who has been in the US since he was 14.
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03/14/12 As was true in other conservative states this year, exit polls from the Alabama and Mississippi primaries show that the Republican electorate is not all riled up about the immigration issue.
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03/13/12 I'm about to board a 14 hour flight to Seoul, South Korea, where a delegation of national civil and labor rights leaders will tell Hyundai shareholders that their company's decision to brush aside requests to help repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law is unacceptable. A few weeks ago, civil, human rights, and labor organizations sent a letter to these auto giants, and asked them to take a stand against H.B. 56. None of them have.
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03/13/12 I'm about to board a 14 hour flight to Seoul, South Korea, where a delegation of national civil and labor rights leaders will tell Hyundai shareholders that their company's decision to brush aside requests to help repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law is unacceptable. A few weeks ago, civil, human rights, and labor organizations sent a letter to these auto giants, and asked them to take a stand against H.B. 56. None of them have.
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03/13/12 Several weeks ago we posted an update to our "Boycott Hate" campaign: how we'd asked car companies like Honda and Hyundai to join us in the fight to repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law HB 56, and how they basically told us it wasn't their problem. As a CNN report wrote after speaking to a Hyundai spokesman, "the company does not take a position on the immigration law one way or the other."
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03/13/12 With demographic realities now undeniable, more and more political analysts agree that Republicans are committing political suicide by embracing hard-line, anti-immigrant policies. A piece by Paul Begala in The Daily Beast, lifts up some important quotes from prominent GOP strategists who agree that Republican candidates change on immigration if they have any hopes of winning a national election.
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03/13/12 With demographic realities now undeniable, more and more political analysts agree that Republicans are committing political suicide by embracing hard-line, anti-immigrant policies. A piece by Paul Begala in The Daily Beast, lifts up some important quotes from prominent GOP strategists who agree that Republican candidates change on immigration if they have any hopes of winning a national election.
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03/13/12 The Alabama Republican primary is tonight, and the Center for American Progress has released its latest fact sheet entitled "The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alabama's Demographic Changes and Immigration Politics".
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03/13/12 The Alabama Republican primary is tonight, and the Center for American Progress has released its latest fact sheet entitled "The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alabama's Demographic Changes and Immigration Politics".
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03/12/12 On a pre-primary press call, the day before the contentious Alabama GOP primary, immigrant reform experts and leaders from religious and immigrant youth communities shed light on the devastating toll that Alabama's anti-immigration law (HB 56) has had on Latino families and warned of the role Alabama will play in the national elections this November.
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03/12/12 Lawrence Downes writes a thoughtful piece in the NYT, outlining the impact that Arizona's SB 1070 has had on immigration politics, noting that since SB 1070, 31 states have introduced legislation "imitating all or part of S.B. 1070."
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03/12/12 Late last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released new health and safety standards for immigration detainment facilities, which now include things like visitation rights and permission to adhere to dietary restrictions.
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03/12/12 In what appears to be a desperate and craven effort to appeal to Latino voters, Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) has introduced a weakened version of the DREAM Act. Noting the hypocrisy and cruelness of Rivera's bill, DREAMers reject the legislation - and ask not to leave any of them behind.
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03/09/12 Yesterday, the 11th Circuit Court of appeals in Atlanta, Georgia blocked two more parts of the Alabama anti-immigrant law. Human Rights Watch noted the decision as "a significant victory not just for immigrants but for the rights of all residents of Alabama." Their press release gives a little more background.
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03/09/12 The nation's eyes are turning towards Alabama, as a series of developments with the state's "show me your papers" anti-immigration law intersect with political dynamics surrounding the upcoming Republican presidential primary and general election.
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03/09/12 Earlier this week, we wrote about the Silicon Valley "Tech Titans" who were supporting DREAMers through E4FC.org. Today, there's another major player from the business world weighing in on the immigration issue: Howard Buffett.
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03/08/12 Breaking news from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals concerning Alabama's atrocious anti-immigrant law. Two of the most punitive sections of that law have been blocked.
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03/08/12 Yesterday, Miami-area high school valedictorian Daniela Pelaez and her sister, Dayana, came to Washington to meet with U.S. Representatives and Senators from Florida. The sisters, both of whom would benefit from the DREAM Act, recently won an administrative reprieve from deportation for two years.
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03/08/12 The annual commemoration of the historic civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama is taking on a new—albeit deeply related—cause today, as marchers highlight immigration, voting rights, and the need to repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law HB 56.
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