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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03/01/12 Mother Jones has an excellent series exploring the different aspects of issue of the immigration issue. The first article, by Paul Reyes, is titled, "'It's Just Not Right': The Failures of Alabama's Self-Deportation Experiment." The magazine also exposes the inner-workings of those agitators in articles about Kris Kobach and another on the broader anti-immigrant network.
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02/01/12 Republican House leaders are trying to further punish immigrant families by changing eligibility for the child tax credit in a way that targets immigrant families. We need your help to stop this from happening.
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01/31/12 Fallout from the federal investigation of the East Haven, Connecticut police force continues. Yesterday, the Police Chief, Leonard Gallo, resigned.
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01/05/12 Legislation in Tennessee which would amend the state's anti-bullying law to exempt bullying for political reasons just as long as the victim's person or property aren't damaged. It is being denounced for aiming to give a green light to the harassment of gay kids in school, which it is.
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01/05/12 Yesterday was the deadline for Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio to indicate whether he would cooperate with the United States Department of Justice civil rights investigation of his department. Well, Arpaio did respond -- in fairly typical Sheriff Joe fashion with some bravado and attitude
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12/01/11 Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee held yet another hearing on immigration. Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the leading anti-immigrant voice in the GOP, exhibited egregious behavior during his questioning of former Sacramento Police Chief Art Venegas, a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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11/18/11 There are increasing signs of serious economic fallout from Alabama's harsh anti-immigrant law, HB 56. There are growing calls, even from some GOP Senators, to change HB 56. The Anniston Star says repeal it.
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11/16/11 Alabama State Senator Scott Beason (R) has been getting a lot of attention lately. None of it good. He was one of the architects of the state's viciously anti-immigrant law. Yesterday, Beason was in the news again. He was booted as Chair of the Senate Rules Committee.
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11/15/11 Last night, on NBC's "Rock Center with Brian Williams," reporter Kate Snow did a segment on what Williams called the "huge controversy" in Alabama caused by the passage of HB 56. Snow's report showed the dire impacts of HB 56 on Alabama's Latino families and the state's farmers.
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11/01/11 The United States Department of Justice is seeking to block South Carolina's anti-immigrant law. This marks the third challenge to a state immigration law by DOJ. The others are Arizona and Alabama.
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10/20/11 Powerful editorial in today's NY Times about the impact of HB 56 on people across Alabama. The new harsh law is impacting everyone, not just its intended target of immigrants. It's exactly what the proponents wanted.
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10/19/11 Jose Antonio Vargas is in Alabama reporting on the state's viciiously anti-immigrant law. Over the weekend, he spoke to former Federal District Court Judge U.W. Clemon at the 16th Street Church in Birmingham. Clemon, who is a legal legend in the state, spoke out strongly against HB 56.
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09/30/11 Very powerful post from Nick Valencia, a producer at CNN about his first-hand experience with anti-Latino racism recently in Atlanta. Nick is a third generation Mexican-American, who was recently told to "Go home" by a woman in Atlanta.
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09/29/11 Yesterday, a Federal District Court Judge in Alabama delivered a decision that will have an immediate negative impact on immigrants and Latinos in that state. Judge Blackburn upheld some of the most egregious sections of Alabama's punitive and discriminatory.
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09/28/11 Major news from Alabama today. Federal District Court Judge Sharon Blackburn upheld several sections of Alabama's worst-in-the-nation immigration law today
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09/27/11 The Republican presidential debates have certainly generated a conversation about immigration reform. However, within Republican circles, that conversation has gotten ugly and divisive. But, as an editorial in USA Today makes clear, that is the wrong approach.
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09/20/11 The Center for American Progress released a new report today entitled "All Immigration is Local: Receiving Communities and Their Role in Successful Immigrant Integration," which discusses what happens when a community reacts negatively to an influx of new immigrants.
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06/27/11 Despite Arizona Forest Service officials saying that Senator John McCain didn't know what he was talking about when he said that undocumented immigrants start fires, a few other extreme personalities have decided to ignore that fact and are deciding to drive the right-wing narrative by blaming immigrants for everything.
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06/21/11 For years now, immigrants have been blamed for things like homegrown terrorism via "terror babies," global warming, the health care crisis, the demise of Wall Street, and spreading leprosy and bird flu (among other diseases). Arizona Senator John McCain (R), one-time immigrant champion, is adding another to our growing list. Now the one-time GOP Presidential hopeful is blaming immigrants for starting forest fires
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06/14/11 News Taco reports that Tea Party leader and founder of the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas, Rebecca Forest, stated that Hispanic legislators are the reason enough anti-immigration legislation hasn't passed this legislative season. Her solution to the "problem?" Get rid of them.
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06/02/11 Rep. Lamar Smith, the Republican Chair of the House Judiciary Committee -- and one of the notoriously anti-immigrant "Three Amigos," just can't help himself when it comes to attacking and demonizing immigrants. Today, This time, Smith -- the GOP's top political strategist for Latino outreach -- is taking on asylum-seekers fleeing persecution and seeking freedom in America.
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04/18/11 The New York Times profiled John Tanton, documenting his role in founding the leading anti-immigrant groups FAIR, CIS and NumbersUSA . The article also exposed Tanton's extremist views and ties white nationalist organizations.
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03/16/11 Via Adam Serwer at the American Prospect, we learn that Mark Krikorian's organization has jumped on the "Terror Baby" bandwagon – with a "laughably debunkable" report.
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03/16/11 The claim by Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA), the chair of the House Immigration Subcommittee, that he is focused on "illegal" immigration was disabused at his latest hearing. Instead, the Chairman pitted native-born workers against foreign-born workers (plenty of whom are citizens). We also learned something about the GOP's jobs agenda. After all of that time waiting to hear about something even slightly related to that subject from Republican leaders, we found out that it revolves around Elton Gallegly's (R-CA) grandchildren.
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11/10/10 Just a quick note to our friends on Capitol Hill – the Florida Independent reports that you'll have a fiery new colleague walking the halls of Congress, asking you to lunch and offering her, um, constructive suggestions about how to win the hearts and minds of America – including "hanging" undocumented immigrants and then "sending them back where they came from."
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10/07/10 Now, he may be right about Whitman, but talk about casting the first stone... Today Lou Dobbs becomes the latest uber-wealthy public figure to shamelessly flog the immigration issue while simultaneously benefiting from undocumented labor in his home (or rather, estate). The Nation has a devastating report out today, the result of a year-long investigation, on Dobbs' use and abuse of undocumented workers. Five of Dobbs' workers stated that the ex-CNN anchor knew that they lacked papers but looked the other way as they tended his multi-million dollar estate.
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