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A National ID Card System?
I truly and honestly implore those of you in DC to do the right thing on the National ID Card idea: Repudiate and denounce it immediately as the ACLU and even libertarian and right wing groups have done. […]
immigrants
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Immigration Reform: a Voice of Reason
This is the same climate in which President Obama and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano just announced the “Si Se Puede” of their continued and increased support for one of the most heinous Bush-era immigration policies: […]
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Sotomayor, Conservative Judge
With Sotomayor on the bench Obama fulfills two promises; to put the first Latino and the third woman on the Supreme Court.
Maybe he is also putting a Conservative there. Or maybe I am wrong. […]
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Immigration: Humanitarian and Just
Until recently, there were 20 immigration judges in Los Angeles; almost all of them had a case load of 1,500 to 2,000 cases, As a result, those entitled to a hearing had to wait between 1-2 years, and many times when their hearing day arrived, it had to be postponed for yet another year. […]
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The Obama Vision: immigrant detention centers
President Obama appears willing to maintain and even expand a system of immigrant prisons that civil and human rights organizations across the country and around the world have criticized for the subhuman conditions and deaths found in that system. […]
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Lou Dobbs plays the victim
Faced with a growing movement of communities demanding that CNN drop his program, Lou Dobbs responded Friday with one of his favorite postures: the victimized defender of American virtue. “They ask CNN to fire me because I oppose illegal immigration” said Dobbs. […]
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A Respond to Lou Dobbs’ Invitation
Dear Mr. Dobbs: Thank you for your invitation to appear tonight on the Lou Dobbs Show. I would be happy to accept under one condition: that alongside me appears CNN President Jon Klein as a participant in this important discussion. […]
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Questions Surrounding Dobbs’ Gunfire Incident
Conflicting reports about a bullet that hit the top of Lou Dobbs’ house in Sussex, New Jersey, are raising new and serious questions about the credibility of Lou Dobbs, CNN and its President, Jon Klein. […]
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The Fall of Dobbs and the Immigrants
I cried because as a member, relative and friend of the groups most vilified by Dobbs for so many years – Latinos and immigrants – I was inspired by the power of the movement to oust him. […]
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Poetic Justice: Dobbs Owes Everything to Immigrants
Editor’s note: After Wednesday’s abrupt on-air resignation of veteran CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, many Latino advocacy and immigrant rights groups felt vindicated. They had long criticized the anchor’s coverage of illegal immigration as obsessive, prejudiced, […]
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Request for Submissions on Spanglish
The ever-increasing spread and influence of the Spanish language in the US and its inevitable interaction with English has led to the emergence and daily use of a new dialect: Spanglish. […]
Derechos civiles
Arizona’s new racist and anti-immigrant law affects the gay community
If we want to win back the right for same-sex couples to marry, we should forge strong partnerships with similar human rights movements seeking to protect the basic rights of people. […]
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Arizona’s Immigration Law Is Unconstitutional
All laws must honor the provisions of the Constitution. SOLEASNA potentially, if not absolutely, violates several provisions of the U.S. Constitution […]
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Arizona’s Nuremberg Laws
As the great Eli Wiesel, survivor of the horror of Auschwitz, taught us, we must use memory to fight against those who promote an intolerant agenda. In Arizona, more than ever, we need to exercise our historical memory and ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated. […]
América Latina
Why do we come to the United States?
I came because I lost my land. I came because of the Sandinistas. I came because I fell in love with a gringo. I came because I was a marielito in Cuba. I came because in Mexico I was robbed four times. […]