Immigrant Voting May Spread In CT, In Today’s Latino Political News
Latino activists say Arizona inmate on life support after jail fight with police, deputies: A man found unresponsive in a jail cell after fighting with deputies over the weekend was on life support Monday, in a case that Latino activists say raises more questions about practices under Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Hispanic family may not spend holidays together due to deportation: An Hispanic family separated by the mother’s deportation and awaiting a decision on the father’s immigration case asked U.S. authorities on Monday for a solution so that they could be together over the Christmas holidays.
Hispanic Community Still Uneasy about UH Mural: Houston’s Hispanic community is outraged over a mural in the basement of a University of Houston building. UH is planning to renovate its student University Center. But that’s putting a mural of the 1960s “Chicano Movement” in jeopardy.
Church leaders seek repeal of immigration law: Saying he was in their prayers, leaders of the Catholic, Episcopal and Methodist churches in Alabama sent a letter to Gov. Robert Bentley on Monday urging him to support efforts to repeal the state’s strict immigration law, known as HB 56.
Court battle begins over S. Carolina immigration law: federal judge on Monday will hear arguments for and against South Carolina’s tough new immigration law while pro-immigrant groups gather and pray that the measure will not enter into force on Jan. 1.
A Welcoming Sign to Immigrants in the South: Now North Carolina is considering similar local immigration enforcement laws that will disrupt business, tear families apart, and generally try to stop the growth of Latinos in the state. But even as Republican state legislators meet in a special committee to plot their move against unauthorized immigrants specifically, and Latinos in general, a different view is emerging.
Remap referendum faces tight timetable: If feuding City Council factions can’t avoid a $30 million repeat of the 1990 remap referendum, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is prepared to push his own ballot question — asking voters if they want to cut the City Council in half, the mayor’s floor leader warned Monday.
Voting Rights: What’s A Reasonable Requirement?: The Obama administration has taken aim at a wave of new laws and policies they say will make it harder for some people to vote on Election Day. Host Audie Cornish talks with two people who hold opposing views on the issue: NAACP president Ben Jealous and Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former Justice Department official under President George W. Bush.
In U.S., right to vote still threatened: Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder delivers a major speech on voting rights at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. The location is significant: In 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation that banned the worst forms of racial discrimination in American elections.
Reaction to non-resident voting rights: New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. caused a stir last week when he said he would like to extend the right to vote to every New Haven resident — including undocumented immigrants. And although he’s not ready to jump on DeStefano’s bandwagon, Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch said he has asked his staff to review the issue.
We Will Stand: Defending Voting Rights: In collaboration with Brave New Foundation, the NAACP has put together a new video about the impact of the voting right attacks on communities of color. Please take a moment to watch and spread the message to everyone you know, then text STAND to 62227 to join our fight for voting rights.
El Cajon Faces Voting Rights Lawsuit: El Cajon Mayor Marc Louis: “You want change? Put down the meth pipe, get up off the couch, and vote, people. I am not going to fracture this community into a hundred thousand private dwellings linked only by water, power, and cable TV.”
Democrats move Irish immigration bill but GOP blocks it: The E3 Irish bill would allow 10,000 Irish to come to America and work legally every year. The bill was created by Senator Chuck Schumer and has overwhelming Democratic Party support. It would also allow waivers for Irish undocumented who wish to apply for it. Leahy’s bill attached the E3 visa bill onto a bill that previously passed the US House giving more green cards to emigrants from Mexico, China, India and The Philippines.
Azteca America Announces a 33% Increase in 2011-2012 Upfront Sales: Growth included a record-breaking increase of 17 new national accounts, including ACH Foods, Chrysler, Church & Dwight, Denny’s, Goya, KFC, Kmart, Marshall’s, Microsoft, Nintendo, Pepsico, Samsung, Sarah Lee, Sears, Sprint, Verizon and Volkswagen, as well as significant investment expansion from existing clients such as H&R Block, Eli Lilly, Kraft Foods, Olive Garden, Post Foods, Rent a Center, Toyota and Farmers Insurance.
