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Obama and NCLR: F@$! You Brown Boy… F@$! La Raza

July 13, 2008 By kyledeb

I debated whether or not to cover Obama's speech.  A put up a full copy of his remarks here.  Eventually I decided that with hundreds of press people here, and more "influential" bloggers than myself covering this, that it would … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, california, immigrant, immigration, migrant, minutemen, national-council-of-la-raza, nativism, racism, san-diego, san-diego-minutemen, tennesee

May Day Live: March For Migrant Rights

May 1, 2008 By kyledeb

I'm going to updating live on the immigrant marches right outside of Boston, today, using my cell phone.    I can't paste the widget here, but you can see the updates on the top of the Citizen Orange page all day today. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: immigration, live, may-day, migrant, workers-rights

The New Migrant Megaphone: A Historic Month for the Sanctuarysphere

April 20, 2008 By kyledeb

"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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: a-dream-deferred, alternet, blogosphere, brave-new-films, daily-kos, dream-act, fash, immigration, ladies-of-la-patrona, migrant, mother-jones, robert-greenwald

Democrats Push Deportation-Only SAVE Act

March 5, 2008 By kyledeb

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: daily-kos, digby, docudharma, firedoglake, heath-shuler, huffington-post, immigration, jonathan-e.-kaplan, migrant, mira-coalition, nightprowlkitty, rahm-emanuel, sam-stein, save-act, sentido, stanley-greenberg, street-prophets, tom-tancredo

Moving Towards a New Migrant Manifesto

February 27, 2008 By kyledeb

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2006-marches, comprehensive-immigration-reform, david-neiwart, firedoglake, guatemala, immigration, immigrationprof-blog, latina-lista, malcolm-x, matt-ortega, migra-matters, migrant, the-silence-of-our-friends, the-unapologetic-mexican, u.s.

George Washington Was Pro-Migrant

January 16, 2008 By kyledeb

GEORGE W. BUSH: "I'm a uniter, not a divider."-Interview with David Horowitz for Salon.com, May 6, 1999GEORGE W. BUSH: "I care what 51 percent of the people think of me"-To Oprah Winfrey, September 20, 2000, quoted by Salon.comThen to my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: founding-fathers, george-w.-bush, george-washington, immigration, migrant, steve-coffman

Amy Chua: Nativism at Yale Law

December 18, 2007 By kyledeb

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: alan-wolfe, amy-chua, appeal-to-melanin, appeal-to-the-migratory, bill-oreilly, boston-globe, compromise, duke, emma-lazarus, english, foreign-affairs, frosty-wooldridge, hate, immigration, immigrationprof-blog, kevin-johnson, migra-matters, migrant, mitt-romney, national-identity, nativism, nezua-limon-xolagrafik-jonez, numbersusa, osaro-agbongiague, pluralism, racism, samuel-huntington, statue-of-liberty, tolerance, u.s.-declaration-of-independance, unity, washington-post, yale

Don Hutto: “How the ICE Stole Christmas”

December 7, 2007 By kyledeb

Dear Mr. Prime minister haper I don't like to stay in this jail. I'm only nine years old. I want to go to my school in Canada. I'm sleeping beside the wall. Please Mr. Priminister haper give visa for my family. This place is not good for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: american-civil-liberties-union, canada, christmas, corrections-corporation-of-america, detention, don-hutto-detention-center, don-hutto-residential-facility, immigration, migrant, t.-don-hutto

Lou Dobbs Race Baiter

December 3, 2007 By kyledeb

Dobbs's popularity results from filling the vacuum spineless establishment Democrats are leaving in their wake.  In the absence of strong progressive leadership, Lou Dobbs has been able to twist populist rhetoric into anti-migrant hate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: immigration, lou-dobbs, louis-gutierrez, max-and-the-marginalized, migrant

Anti-Attrition Through Enforcement

November 29, 2007 By kyledeb

I came up with this anti-attrition idea while attending Boston University's Great Debate, a few weeks ago.  The question was "Can Stricter Law Enforcement at the Border and the Workplace Solve the U.S. Immigration Problem?" (there's a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: anti-attrition, attrition-through-enforcement, center-for-immigration-studies, immigration, mark-krikorian, migrant

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