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Immigration, LGBT Advocates Telling Their Stories Digitally
Immigration and LGBT advocates spoke about the ways in which they utilized digital media to organize around their issues and campaigns at the Still Invisible? Waging Stories with Social Media […]
Mississippi May Mimic Alabama’s Immigration Law With HB 488
The Mississippi legislature has moved an Alabama-style immigration law, HB 488, out of two committees this week, pushing the bill towards becoming a law. Protests are already starting up against the bill […]
Georgia’s Immigration Law Highlights Reality Vs. Politics
By Christopher Rangel Georgia’s Latino population growth ranked the state tenth nationwide for the 2000-2010 decade, with a Latino population of about 854,000. The state also ranked sixth in the number of unauthorized immigrants […]
Mitt Romney Planning Nationwide SB 1070 Legislation
Mitt Romney’s immigration advisor, SB 1070 author Kris Kobach, told The Guardian that he’s been discussing the possibility with Romney of a nationwide “attrition through enforcement” (read: self-deportation) policy if elected […]
US Rep Silvestre Reyes On Ed, Immigration, Rhetoric And More
Economic development, border security, education, healthcare, and protecting America’s history as a diverse and immigrant friendly nation are all part of U.S. Congressmen Silvestre Reyes’ re-election platform this year. We […]
Romney’s 90s Immigration Policy Hands Latino Voters To Democrats
The 1990s are back, but unfortunately not any of the good stuff, like Tupac or tennis shoes that you had to pump. No, unfortunately the worst of the 1990s has […]
South Carolina’s Immigration Law Challenges The Constitution
By Christopher Rangel South Carolina ranked number one in Latino growth for the 2000-2010 decade with a growth rate of 148%, at the same time that legislators followed Arizona’s footsteps with one […]
For The GOP, Failing On Immigration Means Failing At The Polls
By Eliseo Medina Republicans seem to be suffering from a case of political amnesia. There is no other explanation for their continued bashing of immigrants. Tim Tancredo’s anti-immigrant campaign went […]
State Immigration Laws Could Begin To Fall Like Dominoes
South Carolina is up next, they’re calling it Alabama-lite. Think of it as the next falling domino in the contrived line of state-level immigration laws. The Alabama law has become the high standard […]
Film 9500 Liberty Shows County Divided By Immigration Debate
Before SB 1070 in Arizona, there was the “probable cause” mandate in Prince William County, one part of a law that divided a rural farming county in Virginia, in an […]