Over the weekend President Obama announced that he would make national immigration reform a priority if he is elected for a second term. “I can promise that I will try to do it in the first year of my second … Continued
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Cross-Post: The Modern Immigrant Rights Movement
Originally posted by David Bacon on Americas Program on January 14, 2012. Development of the Immigrant Rights Movement to 1986 Before the cold war, the defense of the rights of immigrants in the U.S., especially those from Mexico, Central America … Continued
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Cross-Post: Georgia Immigration Law Could Force Taxi Drivers To Check Passengers’ Immigration Status
Originally published on Thinkprogress.org – by Andrea Nill Sanchez on Jun 21, 2011. Yesterday, a federal judge heard arguments in the legal challenge brought against Georgia’s new immigration law by advocacy and civil rights groups. The plaintiffs in the case … Continued
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Kris Kobach: Coming to Your Town, or Not?
As has been widely reported on this blog and elsewhere, anti-immigrant lawyer and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is having a hard time these days finding a parking spot for his mobile legal lab of bigotry. With towns and … Continued
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House Immigration Reform Caucus loses members, not affiliations with anti-immigrant groups
The House Immigration Reform Caucus (IRC) recently updated its website with a slick new interface. Along with the new website, the Caucus revealed its list of members following the 2010 midterm elections last November. The Caucus now boasts 65 members from … Continued
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Xenophobic Congressman Steve King denied immigration panel chairmanship
Earlier today, House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) announced his nomination for the chairmanship of an immigration panel on the Judiciary Committee. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was everybody’s favorite for the position but he was surprisingly overlooked, with Lamar Smith … Continued
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Beleaguered Minutemen Civil Defense Corps Endorsed Winners
Unlike many of the organizations that make it their business to promote hostility against immigrants, the Minutemen Movement has had a challenging few years. Notably, the John Tanton Network managed to edge its controversial agenda further into conventional media streams, … Continued
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Rep. Gohmert Goes Beyond Immigrant Bashing
It was only a few months ago that Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) enlightened us on his elaborate ‘terror babies’ theory, in a fear mongering scheme to change the 14th Amendment. According to his theory, terrorist organizations are sending pregnant women … Continued