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Latinos Care More About Immigration Than The Economy
According to a national poll released on Monday, the issue of immigration has surpassed that of the economy and jobs as the top concern for Latinos. The poll, conducted by […]
Civil Rights Groups Take Georgia Immigration Law To Court
Georgia’s anti-immigrant law inspired by Arizona’s SB 1070 is facing a lawsuit from several civil rights groups that oppose the measure calling it “hate rhetoric.” The groups that have banded […]
Wisconsin Rep. Files Arizona-Type Immigration Bill
Now it’s Wisconsin’s turn. State Representative Don Pridemore of Hartford, Wisconsin, has filed a strict anti-undocumented immigrant bill that mirrors Arizona’s SB1070. According to a report on fox11online the legislation would […]
Obama Rallies And Punts On Immigration
I’m struggling to find a point to President Obama’s visit to El Paso. It sounded more like a stump than a policy speech, but I think most of that has […]
5 Things to Know About Utah’s Immigration Law Model
News last week that the Arizona state senate had rejected five stringent anti-immigrant bills seemed to signal a turning point in the fear-the-immigrant narrative that has been spreading across the country […]
AZ Senate Says NO to Immigration Bills
I read the reports twice, just to make sure, then I went back to read them again. There were five bills dealing with stringent measures that would add spikes to […]
“Illegals” To “Anchor Babies” Media Warp Immigration Debate
[Editor’s Note: The following post first appeared in Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, FAIR.] On the first day of the new Congress, Rep. Steve King (R.-Iowa) introduced legislation to end […]
Latinos Rally in Utah: It’s About More Than Immigration
It’s about giving a form and a face to an issue and standing up to what Latinos know is behind the politics of immigration. In Utah they’ve been moved to […]
Immigration Issue Gains Momentum Across States
State GOP legislators from across the country have wasted no time in filing and promoting Arizona type immigration bills. It’s no surprise, we all knew they were coming. But neither […]
Federal Immigration Raids Growing Under Obama
In a very detailed analysis, David Bacon points out that the Barack Obama administration has upped the ante of enforcement against immigrant workers in ways that are either comparable, or […]