Posts Tagged ‘immigration’
Driving home our point: Immigrants boost the economy
Posted: September 1, 2010 at 1:38 pm By Rachel LaBruyereWe’ve been saying for months that immigration is an overall net-positive for our recovering economy. With unemployment at a scary high and our economy still limping slowly towards recovery, many have repeated history by scapegoating immigrants as “taking our jobs” and have pointed fingers at the undocumented immigrant population as somehow responsible for the current [...]
Citizenship Down! Colbert on the 14th amendment
Posted: August 11, 2010 at 11:10 am By Rachel LaBruyereThe Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Citizenship Down – Akhil Amar www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News 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 [...]
Baseball and Arizona: What does Ozzie Guillen understand about the Arizona law that Tony LaRussa doesn’t?
Posted: July 8, 2010 at 10:34 am By Rich StolzOn June 29th, as a couple dozen Tea Party members held a small demonstration at a St. Louis Cardinals game in support of the “show me your papers” Arizona law, Cardinals’ Manager Tony LaRussa disappointed millions when he said he believed the Tea Party’s stances were correct on a lot of things, and went on [...]
Immigration Reform Today: President Leads, Republicans Obstruct
Posted: July 1, 2010 at 2:21 pm By adminBy Deepak Bhargava, the Executive Director of the Center for Community Change. Originally published on the Huffington Post. Today, at a speech at American University, President Obama reiterated his support for comprehensive immigration reform. He said: The question now is whether we will have the courage and the political will to pass a [comprehensive immigration [...]
Watch Obama’s immigration speech live at 10:45 AM
Posted: June 30, 2010 at 4:42 pm By Rachel LaBruyereThis morning, President Barack Obama will be addressing the nation in a speech about immigration reform. While I have a certain sense of deja vu (pretty sure he’s done this before), I’m happy to see our Commander in Chief pushing the issue back to the top of his priority list. Now, we must get Congress [...]
Salma Hayek speaks out against Arizona’s immigration law
Posted: June 16, 2010 at 12:02 pm By Rachel LaBruyereLast week, actress Salma Hayek spoke out against the controversial Arizona immigration law, SB 1070. When questioned about her take on the law, Salma had this to say: “What surprises me is the lack of humanity with which they are treating the immigrants,” she said. “What I can’t understand is how the United States, which [...]
Nationals fans take a stand against Arizona’s law
Posted: June 15, 2010 at 11:01 am By Rachel LaBruyereBaseball has become the latest arena for the fight against Arizona’s racial profiling law, SB 1070. The 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star game is scheduled to be played in Phoenix, Arizona and people across the country have stepped up their efforts to ask MLB comissioner Bud Selig to move the game out of the state [...]
So, about this Arizona law…
Posted: June 3, 2010 at 3:23 pm By Rachel LaBruyereThere seem to be a lot of questions and, as always, misinformation floating around about what exactly Arizona’s recent immigration law does and how it will impact the state. Since it’s passage, there are 22 others states considering similar measures. What does this mean for your state? What does this mean for the country? The [...]
Michigan introduces resolution opposing Arizona’s anti-immigrant law
Posted: May 26, 2010 at 12:27 pm By Rachel LaBruyereYesterday, Michigan State Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) announced the introduction of a resolution opposing Arizona’s extreme anti-immigrant law. “Michigan needs to go on record and oppose this hateful, misguided law. It will make us all less safe and do nothing to fix our broken immigration system. We’re calling on Arizona to do the right thing [...]
May Day: Vigil on the frontlines in Phoenix, AZ
Posted: May 2, 2010 at 11:28 am By adminThis is a reflection by Jim Perdue of the United Methodist Southwest Conference. Yesterday, people began to gather at the Arizona state capitol around noon on a beautiful May first day. It was partly cloudy and around 85 degrees. By 2 p.m., there we about two thousand people milling around various groups gathered on the [...]
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