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Nevada rallies for the DREAM Act
Posted: December 15, 2010 at 4:35 pm By SarahPhoto from April Corbin, Las Vegas Sun.
The week’s action theme of caroling for the DREAM Act continues. Yesterday in Nevada, DREAM Act supporters rallied in downtown Las Vegas, singing their own version of the Twelve Days of Christmas, about the opportunities millions of young people would have if the Senate passes the DREAM Act. The [...]
The Latino vote by the numbers
Posted: November 4, 2010 at 11:16 am By LloydTuesday night’s victories for Senators Harry Reid (NV) and Michael Bennet (CO) were a surprise to pollsters and pundits. Both had been trailing their Tea Party Republican opponents in polling prior to the election, and most had considered the two toast.
So why were the polls wrong? Nate Silver wonders if the Latino vote was not [...]
Race baiting is not so successful for the GOP
Posted: November 3, 2010 at 12:50 pm By LloydOn a night of big GOP wins, a clear pattern is emerging: Right wing restrictionist candidates went down in flames despite historic Republican wins.
In Colorado, restrictionist candidates Ken Buck and Tom Tancredo went down to Democrats Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper respectively. The Hispanic and immigrant vote proved to be a powerful force in [...]
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 [...]
Racial profiling is fine, as long as your kids don’t look Hispanic
Posted: July 29, 2010 at 4:49 pm By LloydNevada gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval (R) isn’t worried about racial profiling in Arizona. That’s because his kids don’t “look Hispanic”.
Sandoval made the comment in response to a question on Univision’s Face to Face in response to the question of whether he would worry about his children being profiled in Arizona. Apparently Sandoval, the first Republican [...]
Arizona’s copycats
Posted: June 1, 2010 at 4:02 pm By LloydDespite the threats of boycotts ranging from corporations to Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game to the state itself, several states are considering copycatting Arizona’s racial profiling law.
Minnesota is considering a law that is reported as requiring law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws; establishing eligibility criteria for federal and state public benefits; requiring possession of [...]
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 [...]
First we marched, then we rallied… and lawmakers listened
Posted: April 12, 2010 at 11:15 am By Rachel LaBruyereOn Saturday, immigration reform advocates gathered in cities across the country to call for immigration reform in 2010. With crowds of over 10,000 in Las Vegas and Seattle, with smaller events in Chicago, Philadelphia, Providence, El Paso, New York and Lakewood.
Capitalizing on the momentum from the March For America in Washington, DC last month, the [...]
Las Vegas & Seattle gear up to Rally For America
Posted: April 9, 2010 at 3:58 pm By Rachel LaBruyereTens of thousands will rally for immigration reform in cities all over the country this weekend. The series of events are part of the momentum built at the March For America rally when more than 200,000 Americans came to Washington, DC for a dramatic demonstration of support for fixing our broken immigration system. Now activists [...]
Rally for America TOMORROW!
Posted: April 9, 2010 at 12:17 pm By adminTomorrow, people across the country will be Rallying for America. Will you be with us?
In Seattle, WA:
The Washington Immigration Reform Coalition (WIRC) For America, an alliance of over 50 organizations, faith groups, community groups and labor unions, is organizing around one purpose – to achieve comprehensive immigration reform – and has been working to ensure [...]
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