The Sanctuary Speaks Out Against Verdict in Luis Ramirez Case
From the Editorial Board of The Sanctuary comes not only a condemnation of a miscarriage of justice ... but a call for substantive change.The Luis Ramirez Murder: A Logical Step in the Process of...
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Reid offers up more of the same
As hundreds of activists from over 200 different organizations were converging on Washington yesterday in an unprecedented campaign to push for immigration reform, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...
View ArticleSometimes Secrets are Hidden in Plain Sight
Over the past few months much has been made of the possibility of the enactment of immigration reform by the current Congress. The President has promised on numerous occasions to make immigration...
View ArticleReading the Tea Leaves: McLarty-Bush Council on Foreign Relations Report
After months of wading through the mixed messages and red herrings thrown out by The Administration and Democratic leadership, trying to figure out exactly what form the long promised initiative to...
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Immigration reform need not be a triple-headed hydra
This week the Obama administration finally announced a long overdue revamping of its immigration detention system. The system, comprised of a hodgepodge network of 350 unregulated local jails,...
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A Long Look in the Mirror
Last Friday night around 11:30 PM, an unidentified Latino man walked down Division Avenue in Patchogue NY.As he approached the intersection of Division and West Avenues, three white teens hanging out...
View ArticleGood Immigrant-Bad Immigrant: codifying a caste system
On Thursday, President Obama will once again meet with the movers and shakers in the Immigration Reform debate. Having already punted the ball down field, postponing any meaningful reform until next...
View ArticleHow about a "temporary bail out" for immigrants
On Thursday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and senior White House and DHS staff met with about 100 immigrant advocates and leaders from faith, business, law enforcement, and labor to...
View ArticleThe case for a strong and vibrant Pro Migrant blogosphere.
Two years ago, after the failure to pass meaningful immigration reform, there was much introspection and examination within the immigrants-rights community about exactly what went wrong. Many lessons...
View ArticleOver 500 Groups Demand End To Local Immigration Checks
Since taking office, the Obama Administration has been doing a carefully choreographed dance with both sides of the immigration debate in an attempt to place itself in a "sweet spot" where it believes...
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Demand Justice for Julio Maldonado.
This past Wednesday, police in Patchogue NY were once again called to investigate another hate crime. This time it was at a small church directly across the street from where Ecuadorian immigrant...
View ArticleGroups To Finally Take On Dobbs
After years of peddling some of the most radical right-wing conspiracy theories, giving a platform to white nationalists and other extremists, and resorting to outright lies to further his cause as an...
View ArticleGutierrez to release his principles for new immigration reform bill … we've...
On Tuesday Oct 13th, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus led by Rep. Luis Gutierrez(Il-D), will be joined in Washington by 2,500 representatives of labor, immigrant advocacy and civil rights...
View ArticleYou can't have it both ways, CNN
To let CNN know they can no longer hypocritically distance themselves from Dobbs' anti-Latino and anti-immigrant hatred with appeals to Latino viewers, join the BastaDobbs campaign today and let your...
View ArticleImmigration Reform is a Crucial Part of the Movement for Change
Yesterday, thousands of immigration reform advocates converged on Washington to demand that Congress and the Administration live up to their promises to take up reform, and repair our broken...
View ArticleWhining starts about lack of guest worker program in Gutierrez bill
Like dogs salivating to the sound of a dinner bell, it didn’t take long for the forces of the status quo to weigh in on the new immigration bill unveiled yesterday by Rep. Luis Gutierrez(D-IL) with...
View ArticleKrikorian: Problem with Haiti- slavery ended too soon
Over the past ten days much has been written about Haiti's troubled past, the ramifications and causes of it's crushing poverty and political instability, and the historical role many nations have...
View ArticleWe've got to do better than this
Just some food for thought before Obama's SOTU, and hopefully a renewed push for CIR starting in the Senate by Shummer and GrahamWhile it's a good sign to see Progressives, Labor, Faith-based...
View ArticleAny idea on how much longer that check might be in the mail?
Every day my inbox and Twitter account overflows with messages from DC types, pro-reform movers and shakers, and recently, netroots muckamucks, letting me know that immigration reform is gaining...
View ArticleSchumer reaches out to Lou Dobbs on immigration. This is insanity.
While everyone in Washington has been banging heads over health care reform, the economy and jobs, quietly behind the scenes Democrats have been working on attacking another hot button...
View ArticleLet's talk future flows
The most common explanation that comes from the right for the current failure of the immigration system is of course lack of enforcement. They claim the problem would be easily solved if only we spent...
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The Raw Politics of Immigration Reform Should Lead to Legislation
There are numerous reasons why it would be wise for Washington to address the nation&'s failed immigration policies sooner rather than later and finally fix a system that no one on either end of...
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The down payment's been paid, when will the goods to be delivered?
For years, all we've heard from those opposed to immigration and immigration reform is that until the government could prove that it was "serious" about border security and enforcement, no meaningful...
View ArticleTime to take the ball and go home?
Back in the summer of 2008, when the heady promise of hope and change was still fresh and unspoiled by the realities of political expediency and power, candidate, Barack Obama sat down and answered...
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Sheriff Joe to March Immigrant Detainees to Tent City in Chains
Tomorrow afternoon, Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to parade 220 chained immigrant detainees, carrying their own bedding, through the streets of Phoenix from the county jail to their new home in a newly...
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