According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Chairman of the Immigration, Refugee and Border Security Subcommittee, has tapped Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to help garner GOP support for a comprehensive immigration bill this year. While not always voting in favor of common sense solutions to our broken immigration system, Senator …
Category Archive: Election 2008
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Aug
13
Anti-Immigrant Minutemen Join White-Supremacist Militias on the Radical Right
Anti-immigrant groups like the “Minutemen” vigilantes are not only proliferating, but are rapidly beginning to resemble the white-supremacist and anti-government militias that have populated the netherworld of the Radical Right since the early 1990s. Adding insult to injury, the farcical conspiracy theories that circulate among both extreme nativist groups and right-wing militias are now being …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/08/13/anti-immigrant-minutemen-join-white-supremacist-militias-on-the-radical-right/
Aug
10
President Obama Says “Yes We STILL Can” with Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Photo by El Enigma. Last Friday, President Obama spoke to a group of Hispanic reporters at the White House and again reaffirmed his commitment to passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill sometime in early 2010, with a draft to be ready as soon as the end of this year. “We have convened a meeting of …
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Aug
05
Republicans on the Road to Demographic Self-Destruction
Photo by Jeremy Brooks. A slew of data from the 2008 election, released late last month by the U.S. Census Bureau, underscores—yet again—that Latinos constitute the fastest growing share of the electorate in the United States. Yet many Republican politicians seem to be going out of their way to alienate Latino voters. In an effort …
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Jul
24
The High Cost of Inaction on Immigration Reform
Photo by zzzack. This week the National Institute on Money in State Politics released a study on funding spent supporting and opposing immigration-related ballot measures. Immigration Measures: Support on Both Sides of the Fence examined 2008 ballot initiatives in Oregon and Arizona and found that money raised by both sides of the issue totaled more …
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Jul
20
Rise in Latino and Asian Voters Marks Significant Change in Political Landscape
Photo by seaworthy. Today, the U.S. Census Bureau published new data, Voting and Registration in the Election of 2008, which tracks demographic characteristics of the 131 million U.S. citizens who reported that they voted in the 2008 presidential election. The Census Bureau’s new data set shows a significant increase of about 5 million voters from …
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Jun
23
PASS ID Act Not An Immigration Solution
Photo by gwen. Introduced by Sen. Akaka (D-HI) last week with 5 co-sponsors, the “Providing for Additional Security in States’ Identification Act” (PASS ID) (S. 1261) would give states a breather from the costs and restrictions imposed by the REAL ID Act, which became law in 2005 without Congressional hearings and as part of must-pass …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/06/23/congress-should-pass-on-pass-id-act/
Jun
10
Department of Homeland Security Suspends “Widow Penalty”
Photo by Kratka Photography. This week, the Obama administration took another step toward restoring fairness and humaneness to the immigration system. On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that she would grant a two-year reprieve to immigrants who were married to U.S. citizens but did not complete the permanent residency process …
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Jun
08
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Adds More Flash to His Pan
Photo by TomD. Anti-immigrant media glutton, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, doesn’t stay out of the headlines for very long. In March, the menacing Sheriff Arpaio, known for transforming Arizona’s Maricopa County Police Department into an immigration-enforcement agency, made headlines when he became the focus of a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation for “allegations of discriminatory …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/06/08/arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-adds-more-flash-to-his-pan/
May
28
A New Study Reinforces Growing Influence of Second Generation Latinos
Photo by the Danbury Public Library. A new study by the Pew Hispanic Center download taken divx shows that Latino children now make up 22% of all children under the age of 18 in the U.S.—a huge increase from 9% in 1980. A majority of these kids (52%) are “second generation,” meaning that they are …
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