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Newsweek Ed's Poem Skewers Lou Dobbs

John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Media Criticism, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Right Wing, Media, Criticism, Poetry, Lou Dobbs, Newsweek, Immigration Reform, Scott Whitlock, Cnn, Jerry Adler, Fox News, Poem, John Lundberg, Living News

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."

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Immigration Bill Could Be Introduced By December

Wall Street Journal | MELANIE TROTTMAN | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Immigration Reform, Luis Gutierrez, Janet Napolitano, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Immigrant Bill, House, Schumer, Senate, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Luis Guttierez, Border, Border Security, Politics News

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called Friday for Congress to consider an overhaul of immigration law early next year, a move that could ...

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Justicia Poetica: Dobbs Rises and Then Falls Thanks to Immigrants

Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

As I watched the sad eyes of Lou Dobbs last night while he bade an abrupt farewell to his long career at CNN, I shed the tears that he apparently couldn't. I was inspired by the power of the movement to oust him.

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

Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 11.12.2009 | Denver

Read More: Immigration, Economic Growth, Environment, Sustainability, Immigration Reform, Population Growth, National Parks, Denver News

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?

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Remembering Marcelo Lucero: One Year Later

Tom Watson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marcelo Lucero, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Steve Levy, Barack Obama, Politics News

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...

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One Year After Obama's Victory: We Are in the Opening Months of a New Progressive Era

Robert Creamer | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Regulatory Reform, Clean Energy Jobs, Immigration Reform, November 4, Public Option, 2008, Health Care Reform, Progressive Movement, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Health Insurance Reform, One Year Later, Politics News

As I watched Obama's victory speech a year ago, I thought that America was on the brink of a new progressive era. I believe that just as strongly one year later, as well as in the slogan, "Yes We Can."

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The Strange Bedfellows of the Census Boycott

Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Census, Latinos, Immigration Reform, Boycott, Michele Bachmann, Halloween Costumes, Illegal Immigration, Crazy Census Conspiracies, Immigration, Hispanics, Miguel Rivera, Politics News

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.

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Is Dobbs Lying Again?

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Immigration Reform, Lou Dobbs, Immigrants, Immigration, Lou Dobbs Shots, Sussex County, Denver News

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.

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New York Abandons Role as Sanctuary for Immigrants

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Dora Schiro Commissioner, Immigration Reform, Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jamaica, Obama Immigration, Immigration, 287(G), Sanctuary Cities, Rikers Island, New York City, Immigrant Detention, Deportation, New York News

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.

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Geraldo Rivera Slams Lou Dobbs In Speech, Says Dobbs Won't Be Coming To Fox

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Immigration Reform, Video, Cnn, Lou Dobbs, Fox News, Geraldo Rivera, Media Feuds, Geraldo Rivera Lou Dobbs, Lou Dobbs Fox News, Media News

Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera spoke at a luncheon sponsored by El Diario La Prensa NY yesterday, during which he unleashed a devastating critique o...

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Torn Apart by Deportation, Families Struggle to Stay Together

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Families are being torn apart by deportation at the treacherous intersection of immigration enforcement and the criminal justice system.

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Gustavo De La Rosa, Mexican Human Rights Activist, Detained By U.S.

washingtonpost.com | William Booth | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Immigration Reform, Illegal Immigrants, Mexican Trucks, Mexico, Gustavo De La Rosa, Immigration, Immigration Debate, Mexico Drug Wars, Mexican Immigration, World News

MEXICO CITY -- Gustavo de la Rosa looks over his shoulder, notes suspicious license plates, changes his routine. As one of the most prominent human ri...

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BastaDobbs Responds to Invite from Lou

Roberto Lovato | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Immigration Reform, Dobbs, Latinos, Cnn, Lou Dobbs, Latino in America, www.bastadobbs.com, Media, Lou Dobbs Immigration, Jon Klein CNN, Latino Politics, presente.org, Roberto Lovato and Lou Dobbs, Media News

As we made our case today at CNN's headquarters for Lou Dobbs to be fired, the producers of Dobbs' show emailed me with an invitation to appear on tonight's show. Here's my response.

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National Association of Evangelicals Provides Moral Model on Immigration Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Undocumented Immigrants, Nae, Biblical, Immigration, Immigrants, Evangelicals, Migrants, Leith Anderson, Legislative Debate, Immigrant, Immigration Reform, Biblical Foundations, Bible, National Association of Evangelicals, Politics News

Church leaders who have been personally and privately supportive of immigrants and their struggles have now publicly declared that it is morally wrong to keep families apart.

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Flor Crisostomo, Undocumented Immigrant, Leaving Church Sanctuary After Nearly Two Years

Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Adalberto United Methodist Church, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Elvira Arellano, Flor Crisostomo, Illegal Immigration, Chicago News

A Mexican has moved out of a church on Chicago's West Side where she lived almost two years in defiance of a deportation order....

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Wilmer Rivera Melendez: Man Arrested In Brooklyn Fraud Scheme Targeting Guyanese Immigrants

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Immigration Fraud, Immigration Reform, Wilmer Rivera Melendez, Brooklyn, Illegal Immigrants, Guyanese Immigrants Brooklyn, Immigration, Guyana, Immigration Debate, New York, New York City, Guyanese Immigrants, New York News

NEW YORK — A convicted bigamist posing as a veteran immigration lawyer scammed thousands of dollars from Guyanese immigrants and gave them advic...

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Immigration Rally: Immigration Reform Advocates Gather At Capitol Hill

The New York Times | Ian Urbina | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Capitol Hill, Illegal Immigration, Reform Immigration for America, Immigration, Immigrants, Immigration Bill, National Capital Immigration Coalition, Hispanic Caucus, Overhaul, Obama, Reform, Immigration Law, Politics News

Thousands of immigrants came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a day of lobbying and an afternoon rally calling for comprehensive immigration reform. Th...

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CNN, You Can't Have It Both Ways: It's Either Dobbs or Your Latino Future

Roberto Lovato | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

A few hours of serious reporting on Latinos by sunny Soledad O'Brien can't make up for thousands of hours of anti-Latino extremism from the dark Lou Dobbs.

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American Apparel's Labor Pains

Amie Williams | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Unemployment, Antonio Villaraigosa, American Apparel, Dov Charney, Immigration, Unite Here, Labor Unions, Los Angeles, Politics News

By thumbing its nose at organized labor, American Apparel turned its back on a natural ally for immigration reform.

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Combating the Disease of Progressive Cynicism

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, President Obama, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Regulatory Reform, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Clean Energy, Progressive Movement, Labor Law Reform, Financial Sector Reform, Health Insurance Reform, Jim Messina, Health Care, Politics News

One thing I know for sure. If progressives constantly pronounce the public option dead -- it will be. The cynics will create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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The Big Gay Speech We Wish Obama Would Give

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

I'm sure his speechwriters have cooked up something special for Saturday, but I've got a few ideas of my own. I've written a speech for the beloved President -- the kind of speech we wish the man would give, just once.

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A Losing Proposition -- How Immigration Enforcement Hurts Women and Communities

Irasema Garza | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Customs Enforcement, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Immigrant Women, Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Politics News

A teenage immigrant girl wants to report a sexual assault by her employer but fears that local law enforcement will detain her, rather than prosecute the perpetrator.

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Thanks to Operation Gatekeeper, Death Toll Increases to Over 5,000

Mary Ann West | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Immigration Reform, Nafta, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Border Fence, Border Wall, Minutemen, Politics News

Fifteen years of failed immigration policy has not lessened the number of undocumented aliens entering the country and has cost millions in dollars.

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Immigration Reform Activists' Plan To Boycott Census Takes Center Stage In Colorado

The Colorado Independent | Katie Redding | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: Immigration Reform, Census, Census Boycott, La Raza, National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, National Council of La Raza, Immigration, Colorado, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, Michelle Malkin, Denver News

As a proposed national Latino census boycott receives increased media attention, many Latino and immigrant organizations in Colorado say they're thank...

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