Newsweek Ed's Poem Skewers Lou Dobbs

John Lundberg, 11.13.2009

John Lundberg has been writing and teaching poetry for the last ten years. He is a recent Wallace S ...

Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."

The Healthcare Bill and Latinos

Daniel Cubias, 11.14.2009

The Hispanic Fanatic.

I've avoided commenting on the healthcare controversy too much because, first, it's a massively complex issue that would require several posts to do j...

Queens Frets Over Census Participation

Benedict Moran, 11.13.2009

Freelance journalist living in New York

Activists are afraid that low participation will further cut services in the borough. Queens is especially tricky due to its high number of undocumented workers scared of deportation.

Top 10 Reasons This Woman Can't Write for Late Night Comedy Shows

Catie Lazarus, 11.13.2009

www.doctorlazarus.com

My lady sensibility is limited to menstruation (hilarious), babies (adorable), and unicorns mating (adorably hilarious).

Do We Really Know How Much It Costs to Shoe a Horse?

Gov. Dick Lamm, 11.12.2009

Former Governor of Colorado

Does immigration help our health care system? Will doubling our population help us build a more fair and just America? Do you want an America of one billion people?

Veteran Moulitsas Versus Tom Tancredo as Moral Tale

Beau Friedlander, 11.12.2009

Editor-in-Chief, Air America Media

You merely need to let Tancredo talk to defeat him in a debate. Why would you deride him for not serving his country because of depression, a debilitating illness that affects 8 to 12 percent of the population?

A Migration Summit To Address Shrinking Birth Rates

John Feffer, 11.11.2009

Co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus

The Russians and Japanese, as well as Europeans, are not having enough children to replace themselves. Only by lowering the barriers to citizenship can shrinking countries revive their economies

Should Americans Adopt the Immigrant Mindset?

Daniel Cubias, 11.10.2009

The Hispanic Fanatic.

I've spent some time in the corporate world, and as such, I despise phrases like "paradigm shift" or "new dynamic." Still, it's clear that something n...

First They Came

August J. Pollak, 11.09.2009

Progressives take another one for the "team." To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive. ...

Q: How Much Taxpayer Money Will GOP Waste to Fire up an Anti-Immigrant Base?

Frank Sharry, 11.06.2009

Frank Sharry is Founder and Executive Director of America's Voice

A: Billions upon billions, if some Republicans get their way. Fortunately, they didn't get their way on the Census yesterday. The Vitter-Bennett censu...

Remembering Marcelo Lucero: One Year Later

Tom Watson, 11.06.2009

Author of CauseWired, consultant, journalist and media critic.

A year ago Sunday, a group of teens left Marcelo Lucero bleeding and dying on a street in Patchogue, New York - with a knife wound to the chest. Lucer...

Focus on "Criminal Aliens" Increases Demand for Immigrant Detention Business

Renee Feltz, 11.06.2009

Multimedia investigative reporter based in New York City

In earnings reports released this week the nation's two largest private prison operators cited "significant growth opportunities" for detaining immigr...

Weekly Diaspora: Immigration Impacts Everything

The Media Consortium, 11.05.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Nezua, Media Consortium Blogger While many pundits and political analysts are musing about what Tuesday's mixed bag election results mean for Obam...

Speaking for God and for America's Top Cops - the Center for Immigration Studies

Adam Luna, 11.04.2009

Adam Luna, Political Director, America’s Voice

America's top religious and law enforcement leaders are taking a strong stance in favor of sensible immigration reform and it's made the anti-immigrant crowd very nervous.

The Strange Bedfellows of the Census Boycott

Daniel Cubias, 10.31.2009

The Hispanic Fanatic.

I expected the neocons to get upset over the census. What surprised me is that some Latino groups have joined people like noted nutjob Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in calling for a boycott.

A Hypocrite Bashes Immigrants

Gautam Dutta, 10.30.2009

David Vitter just introduced a bill that would ban millions of immigrants from being counted in the census. This bill is undemocratic, unconstitutional, and un-American.

Is Dobbs Lying Again?

Mario Solis-Marich, 10.30.2009

Progressive talk radio show host

Law enforcement believes that the shots were from straying area hunters and claim that shots are fired in the area during hunting season very, very often.

Breaking: Senator Reid States He Is Keeping Anti-Immigrant Vitter Amendment From the Senate Floor

Mario Solis-Marich, 10.29.2009

Progressive talk radio show host

Today at a press tele-conference with Latino members of the press Senate Majority Leader Reid stated that he was keeping the anti-immigrant Vitter amendment from the floor of the Senate.

Weekly Diaspora: Legislating Hate

The Media Consortium, 10.29.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Nezua, Media Consortium Blogger Anti-immigration groups and pundits cling to phrases like "Illegal Alien" because they only focus on foreignness a...

No Divisive Delays in the 2010 Census

Wade Henderson, Esq., 10.27.2009

President, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Like a manned mission to the moon, the nation's census requires painstaking planning, exacting execution, and a dedication to staying on schedule. ...

New York Abandons Role as Sanctuary for Immigrants

Seth Freed Wessler, 10.26.2009

Researcher at the Applied Research Center

Immigrations agents at Rikers regularly deceive people they suspect of not being citizens and rope them into the deportation system by violating their legal and human rights.