Newsweek Ed's Poem Skewers Lou Dobbs
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."
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."
Wall Street Journal | MELANIE TROTTMAN | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called Friday for Congress to consider an overhaul of immigration law early next year, a move that could ...
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.
Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 11.12.2009 | Denver
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?
Tom Watson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
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...
Robert Creamer | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
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."
Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
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.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver
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.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media
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...
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.
washingtonpost.com | William Booth | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
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...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
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.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
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.
Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago
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....
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A convicted bigamist posing as a veteran immigration lawyer scammed thousands of dollars from Guyanese immigrants and gave them advic...
The New York Times | Ian Urbina | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Thousands of immigrants came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a day of lobbying and an afternoon rally calling for comprehensive immigration reform. Th...
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.
Amie Williams | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
By thumbing its nose at organized labor, American Apparel turned its back on a natural ally for immigration reform.
Robert Creamer | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
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.
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.
Irasema Garza | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
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.
Mary Ann West | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Fifteen years of failed immigration policy has not lessened the number of undocumented aliens entering the country and has cost millions in dollars.
The Colorado Independent | Katie Redding | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver
As a proposed national Latino census boycott receives increased media attention, many Latino and immigrant organizations in Colorado say they're thank...
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.04.2009 | New York
What we do not see, do not hear about, never even think about, are the families of Mexican immigrant men left behind in Mexico.
John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living