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A Crumb For the Starving: Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008

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[The] legislation would require the federal government to establish mandatory standards for medical and mental health care, replacing the voluntary standards that apply now in the network of more than 300 publicly and privately run jails … [Read more...]

The New Migrant Megaphone: A Historic Month for the Sanctuarysphere

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"Terrorism, crime, the economy, health care, and education: we are not to blame for all of the world's problems!  Yet, despite being treated as less than human, we still want to help solve them.  All we want, is the freedom to do … [Read more...]

Democrats Push Deportation-Only SAVE Act

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Call your representative TODAY and demand that they reject the SAVE Act!Pressure is mounting in the Democratic-led House of Representatives to act on the SAVE Act (HR 4088), an enforcement and deportation-only bill introduced and sponsored … [Read more...]

Moving Towards a New Migrant Manifesto

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The blogosphere can have a role in this change as well. There is a wealth of blogs out there dealing with immigration and Latino issues on a regular basis, and many of them feature not just important perspectives that need to be part of the … [Read more...]

Amy Chua: Nativism at Yale Law

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Our English language is under assault and our schools are drowning in ethnic violence, rapes, drugs and gang warfare. In California, Texas, Florida and Arizona, our hospitals suffer bankruptcies from non-paid services for 350,000 annual … [Read more...]

Immigration Matters: The Gay Marriage of 2008

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In his monologue, Olbermann cites Tim Rutton's piece, "CNN: Corrupt News Network", in which Rutton essentially argues that immigration doesn't matter, or at least that it shouldn't matter as much.A critic from the L.A. Times, CNN's partner … [Read more...]

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