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Self-deportation: satire becoming reality.
Posted: February 2, 2012 at 12:48 pm By adminOver the past few weeks, Mitt Romney has regularly been touting his immigration policy as encouraging self-deportation–the process of making life impossible to continue in the United States so that immigrants return to their country of origin.
Last night, Rachel Maddow spoke for nearly 20 minutes about the origin of self-deportation. Apparently, a satirist going by [...]
SB1070 Architect ousted in Arizona state recall election
Posted: November 9, 2011 at 4:20 pm By adminLast night, immigrant rights activists sent a major shockwave through our movement, our communities, and our cultures. We stood up and told politicians that we won’t be bullied, we won’t accept bigotry, and we have power.
Senator Russell Pearce (AZ-18), was soundly defeated by pro-immigrant challenger, Jerry Lewis, in a special election. Pearce authored the viciously [...]
SUCCESS: Justice Department Sends Monitors to Maricopa, AZ, Arpaio Breaks Ties with Extreme Group
Posted: November 1, 2010 at 1:03 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy Jackie Mahendra, originally posted on the America’s Voice blog:
Last Friday we asked for help to make sure that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his volunteer “army” would not be intimidating Latino voters out of participating in the cornerstone of our democracy: voting. We asked our supporters to send a message to the DOJ to send monitors [...]
Dear Sharron Angle: You’re not fooling anybody
Posted: October 27, 2010 at 11:08 am By Rachel LaBruyereWatch Gabe Gonzalez from the Campaign for Community Change call out Sharron Angle on her most recent racist ads in her bid for Nevada’s Senate seat. Last night, Gonzalez joined Keith Olbermann to discuss the blatantly anti-Latino ads Sharron Angle’s camp released this week.
The race baiting tactic is nothing new (as Gonzalez and Olbermann discuss [...]
The NAACP exposes the Tea Party’s ties to anti-immigrant extremism
Posted: October 21, 2010 at 8:21 am By Rachel LaBruyereToday, the NAACP released the “Tea Party Nationalism” report that documents the party’s close ties with groups espousing white supremacy, islamophobia, anti-semitism and, of course, anti-immigrant fervor (because what would extremism be without it).
The report examines the 6 core groups of the tea party. From the obsession over President Obama’s birth certificate, to the belief [...]
But of COURSE it’s not racist.
Posted: October 19, 2010 at 6:25 pm By admin(Image from Reuters.)
When a politician is saying something isn’t about race at all in the slightest, perish the thought, in the first sentence of the story, you know something’s up:
Florida state Rep. William Snyder, the slow-drawling ex-Miami-Dade Police officer who has drafted Tallahassee’s version of the hotly debated Arizona immigration bill, is adamant that his [...]
Jury Rules Immigrant’s Murder a Hate Crime, Even as Vicious Ads Continue to Stoke Racial Tensions
Posted: October 15, 2010 at 1:50 pm By Jackie MahendraOriginally posted on the America’s Voice blog.
While the mainstream media has been largely absent, Latina Lista has been busy covering the dramatic trial of the two men charged with thehate crime killing of immigrant Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Pa. It turns out the 2008 murder was, indeed, a hate crime.
A federal grand jury has convicted the two [...]
Lou Dobbs’ war on immigrants: The Hypocrisy Runs Deep
Posted: October 7, 2010 at 9:15 am By Rachel LaBruyereThis time last year, Lou Dobbs was only days away from being dropped by his then employer, CNN. After years spent waging war on undocumented immigrants from behind his news desk, Dobbs’ platform was pulled out from under him when groups like Basta Dobbs and Drop Dobbs pressured the network to fire the news anchor [...]
What does the “Ground Zero mosque” have to do with immigration reform?
Posted: August 20, 2010 at 10:22 am By adminEverything.
When the rights of one group are conveniently ignored for political gain, everyone suffers. You don’t have to be Muslim to be offended by the right wing reaction to the proposed community center 2 blocks north of the former site of the World Trade Center. If we stand by and allow Newt Gingrich to claim [...]
Citizenship Down! Colbert on the 14th amendment
Posted: August 11, 2010 at 11:10 am By Rachel LaBruyereThe Colbert Report
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Stephen Colbert helps make it clear why repealing 14th amendment has become the latest anti-immigrant pet project. Because, clearly, changing the constitution – the foundational document of our freedoms and rights, considered sacred to our country – makes much [...]
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