In Secret Meeting Held By Mainstream Anti-Immigration Group, Talk Of Turning Immigrant Women Into ‘The New Welfare Queens’ And Other Incendiary Rhetoric
In a evening conference call held last night, Mar. 8, anti-immigration group Numbers USA—best known for its brute force attacks on Congress to defeat comprehensive immigration reform in 2007—discussed a variety of tactics to thwart an upcoming march on Washington DC by immigrant rights supporters, including one proposal to call immigrant women from Mexico “the new welfare queens in America.” The call, which was held at 9 p.m EST, was organized by Numbers USA, and included approximately 45 participants from across the country, many of them representing archconservative“Tea Party” affiliates.
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez: “Women in the Military”
Women of all races and ages have served in every military conflict since the Revolutionary War, including our current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But despite their many accomplishments, female servicemembers are not always recognized for their role on the battlefield.
The Puerto Rican Birth Certificate Problem You Haven’t Heard About, Yet
Every person with a Puerto Rican birth certificate will need to get a new one this year. A law passed in December invalidates all birth certificates issued by the Commonwealth as of July 1 of this year.
Obama dominates the room at healthcare summit
Obama dominated the debate during Thursday's nearly seven hour cross-party summit on healthcare, always in command not only of the room but also of the most intricate policy details, as he personally rebutted every point he disagreed with. His tone was at times professorial, occasionally combative and at one point even dismissive of his 2008 rival for the presidency, Republican Senator John McCain. "Let me just make this point, John, because we're not campaigning anymore," he told McCain. "The election's over." "Well, I'm reminded of that every day," McCain replied.
The Nation: The Democrat’s Immigration Priority
10 March 2010
The great thing about racists is they'll always take the bait. You won't get far into an immigration-reform debate, for instance, before the GOP's more zealous legislators start doing things like criminalizing priests and calling Miami a "third world country." Which is why Democrats ought to be more eager to spend 2010 debating immigration. Back in summer 2009, that looked like the plan. President Obama made a big show of brainstorming reforms, by holding a White House summit and meeting with legislators in both parties.
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Latino Leaders Impatient With Obama After Promises on Immigration
10 March 2010
In July 2008, Sen. Barack Obama took time out of his packed presidential campaign schedule to address a crucial block of voters whom he would need in his fight against Sen. John McCain in the November elections. During his speech to the League of Latin American Citizens, a leading Latino organization, Obama lamented the lack of presidential leadership on immigration reform in 2006, and promised to do better. "We need a president who isn't going to walk away from something as important as comprehensive immigration reform when it becomes politically unpopular," he told the group. "That's the commitment I'm making to you. I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as president."
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Chicagoans march for immigration reform
10 March 2010
For some reason, when conservatives protest they grab bigger headlines then when liberals protest. Case in point, the Tea Party protesters have garnered all sorts of national attention. So what do supporters of immigration reform have to do to grab headlines? There will be a march in Chicago this Wednesday where some undocumented youth will come out of the shadows. Also Chicagoans will join others from across the nation for a coordinated national rally in Washington, D.C. on March 21. If the media can pay attention to the Tea Party supporters, some of them gun-toting radicals, then they should pay equal attention to the human stories behind the need for Congress to pass immigration reform this year.
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Census: Masking Identities or Counting the Indigenous Among Us
10 March 2010
It was when I first stood atop the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico in 1976 that I was finally able to grasp something my parents first communicated to me when I was five years old; that my roots on this continent are not simply Mexican, but both ancient and Indigenous. My red-brown face should have been enough to teach me this. However, that was not the message I received in school at the time, nor is it the message little red-brown kids receive today.
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I don’t think not visiting the U.S./Mexico border region is much of a loss
10 March 2010
It has been years since I personally set foot in Mexico. But my impression has always been that those border towns directly across from the United States were always so kitschy that no self-respecting individual wanting to see Mexico would seriously go there. So when I learned that Texas state officials had issued an advisory telling people to avoid the area when they make spring-break trips later this month, my honest reaction was two-fold. IT IS NO loss, AND how many idiots are going to want to believe this refers to the whole country.
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Dear SXSW Hipsters: Don’t Follow The NY Times Advice About Mexican Food
10 March 2010
This morning we were amused to read a headline in the New York Times that said, “Tacos in the Morning? That’s the Routine in Austin“. As any of you who are Mexican-American probably know, tortillas are basically bread to Mexicans, so of course they are present at breakfast. They are present at every meal. It’s like saying, “Bread at breakfast?” Well, yeah. It’s called toast. We’re used to that kind of ignorance from Americans, but what really got us all wound up was this line: When it comes to breakfast tacos, however, Austin trumps all other American cities.
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