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DREAM Act Vote Delayed, Passage Doesn’t Look Good
Today the Senate delayed a vote on the DREAM Act, making it seems ever more likely this thing won’t pass. Sigh. Here’s what the AP reported: “The Senate moved Thursday […]
Why A New Texas Republicano Matters
Texas State Representative Aaron Peña just switched parties this week, from Democrat to Republican, conveniently a month after his mostly-Democratic constituency re-elected him after eight years of service to them. […]
Latinos Change Texas’ Future, May Suffer In Present
By Stace Medellín Recently I attended the Harris County (Houston) Democratic Party Brown Bag discussion, including State Reps. Armando Walle, Scott Hochberg, and Carol Alvarado. They shared an outlook of […]
Cuban American Adjustment, the DREAM Act of 1966
The DREAM Act has already worked, it’s a proven practice, it’s just been called something different and benefited a very specific group of people. Turn your calendar back to 1966 […]
McCain Dismises DREAM Act Supporter
The DREAM Act is set for an important vote in the US Senate today. Majority leader Harry Ried plans to bring up the act for a cloture vote, but he […]
Obama Admin’s Deportation Record Via Twisted Rules
Turns out President Barack Obama’s record deportations this past year — 392,862 in a pathetic effort to show the Republicans the Dems could be “tough” on crime — came at […]
Texas Legislator Files Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Bills
Texas State Rep. Debbie Riddle – R of the Houston area filed several Arizona-style immigration bills this week. Looks like Riddle is going after undocumented immigrants, having law enforcement in […]
Don’t Vote? If You Knew Us, You’d Know Better
The joke was that Latinos for Reform produced a “Don’t Vote†television ad (in English andSpanish) because they wanted to claim responsibility for all the Hispanic voters that don’t go […]
NPR Discovers the Prison Industry’s Role in SB 1070
Long after the rest of us have already figured out that the prison industry was an integral part of conceiving, drafting and implementing Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB 1070, NPR also […]
Paperless: DREAM Act Students in the NYTimes
The New York Times ran a long piece about students the DREAM Act would benefit last week, even though the writer made sure to point out the same lame arguments […]