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Take the pledge
Posted: April 28, 2011 at 1:11 pm By LloydFlorida lawmakers want to harass tourists and visitors if they look different.Would you vacation in a “papers, please?” state?
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Join us in Palmetto, FL
Posted: February 2, 2011 at 11:47 am By LloydThe upcoming Florida Legislative session in Tallahassee proposes to create possible new laws that either encourage or condone racial profiling by law enforcement agencies related to immigration reform. Prior to our representatives convening this spring, we wanted to ensure that we are having these conversations locally – with our pastors, with our churches, with our [...]
The high cost of restrictionist rhetoric
Posted: January 31, 2011 at 12:37 pm By LloydDuring the mid term election campaign season many Tea Party Republicans ran on the platform of cutting spending drastically. Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida and others who supposedly championed lower spending by the government are finding their immigration positions and fiscal proclamations at serious odds.
The high cost of these [...]
As the immigration fight goes local, Republicans hit new lows
Posted: January 7, 2011 at 1:06 pm By Rachel LaBruyereWith lawmakers’ refusal to address comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, the immigration fight is getting ugly on the state and local level. Many states are considering Arizona-style immigration laws and others are joining in the fight against immigrant children by pushing to end birthright citizenship, guaranteed by the 14th amendment.
In Florida, lawmakers are considering legislation [...]
Will Senator LeMieux support the DREAM Act?
Posted: November 16, 2010 at 1:29 pm By LloydWith word coming out that appointed Florida Senator George LeMieux is considering seeking a full term in 2012 against Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), he has some tough choices to make. Namely, whether or not to support the DREAM Act if it comes up during the lame duck session.
Florida is home to a large Hispanic community [...]
What to expect when you’re expecting (a Republican Congress), part 2
Posted: November 16, 2010 at 11:42 am By LloydAs the GOP begins preparations to take over the House of Representatives in January, a group of Hispanic Republicans known as Somos Republicans sent a letter to incoming Speaker of the House, John Boehner:
Somos Republicans is the largest and fastest growing Hispanic Republican Organization in the Southwest, which is rapidly expanding into the Midwest and [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday’s primaries yield mixed results for immigration reform prospects
Posted: August 25, 2010 at 5:04 pm By LloydWhat did yesterday’s primary elections mean for the prospects of immigration reform?
Despite a shameless campaign in which he violently rejected his former “maverick” mantle and swung hard to the right, Senator John McCain prevailed over perpetual buffoon and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth in the Arizona Senate primary. In recent months, Senator McCain has denounced his [...]
The political case for immigration reform
Posted: April 12, 2010 at 5:01 pm By LloydIn today’s Washington Post op-ed pages, Ezra Klein makes the political argument for Democrats to hurry up and bring comprehensive immigration reform to the floor:
Actually, [the immigration reform debate] did worse than that: It drove Latino voters toward the Democrats. Obama won 67 percent of Hispanics in 2008 — a much better showing than [...]
Florida Brought Fighting Spirit – and 43 Buses – to March for America
Posted: March 24, 2010 at 11:00 am By Rachel LaBruyereOriginally posted on Standing FIRM.
My friend Katherine Gorell, of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, wrote this about the Florida delegation that came to the March For America.
The sense of hope and determination could be felt throughout the massive caravan of more than 40 buses filled with parents, children and spouses, many of whom have [...]
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