Anti-immigrant organization NumbersUSA announced last week that it has added Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to its list of 2012 presidential hopefuls. The list now contains nine candidates who are graded on their anti-immigrant stances. Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty received the highest grade of “C+” while President Obama received the lowest rating of the candidates “F-.”
Last night, the Center for New Community joined Chicago’s Soccer Heritage Night at the Odeum Convention Sports & Expo Center, home of the Chicago’s newest professional sports team, the Chicago Riot of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
The Center for New Community displayed a banner with the message, “On the Pitch- In the Stands – On the Streets – WE ARE ONE – The Beautiful Game is for EVERYBODY.”
The Soccer Heritage Night was a huge success. Chicago soccer players past and present were honored and received a huge ovation from the crowd.
Anti-immigrant group Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) recently published an article defending accused child-killer Shawna Forde. The author, Rob Sanchez – a Senior Writing Fellow at CAPS, had the audacity to not only defend Shawna Forde, but describe her as a political prisoner. Here is an excerpt:
Forde has become an icon of the Minuteman movement and the border enforcement movement. Her enemies hoped that the brutal incarceration including solitary confinement and the threat of the death penalty would force her to be silent on immigration but she will not be silenced.
Sanchez caught flack from another anti-immigrant group for his statements. But not because he lionized an accused killer involved in… Read more
by Chris Griffin
Arizona has fallen on rough times recently and we have a lot of work to do to get past it all. In the wake of the tragic shooting in Tucson many have expressed concern about the course Arizona is on, and a need to head in a new direction. These concerns that people were feeling is an expression of the common aspirations and frustrations that most people share in Arizona.
While these feelings may have been brought more out into the open following the shooting in Tucson, they are feelings that go way beyond that tragic event. Anger, frustration, anxiety and disappointment are both real and at a high… Read more
North Carolina’s Dream Team reports that Representative George Cleveland (R – Onslow) lashed out at critics of his newly-introduced House Bill 11. The bill would ban undocumented immigrants from North Carolina’s public universities and community colleges.
Yesterday a member of the NC DREAM Team sent an e-mail expressing their disappointment in the legislation. “It is saddening that one of our state’s representatives would go out of their way to deny a segment of our state’s population the right to educate and better themselves,” said Ian Smith-Overman, the member who sent the e-mail. “I believe your decision to sponsor this bill is short-sighted at best and vindictive at its worst.”
The racist journal and website, American Renaissance, won’t be able to check-in to Charlotte.
This week, the Sheraton Hotel in Charlotte, NC canceled the groups reservation for its national conference scheduled for next month.
American Renaissance, a publication and website run by white supremacist organization New Century Foundation, had reserved 100 rooms for a conference that would focus on how white people can come to the defense of Western Civilization from non-white peoples.
In its statement, the Sheraton Hotel explained that once it learned the details of the conference, the hotel declined the American Renaissances reservation out of concern for the safety of its guests.
The anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) issued a press release after President Obama’s State of the Union Speech. FAIR argued that Obama needs to start using the attrition through enforcement model instead of attempting to provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
In the wake of nationwide cries for political civility since the tragic Tucson shootings on January 8th, a coalition of immigrant rights groups in Arizona are calling for a moratorium on all anti-immigrant legislation during this legislative session.
Press conferences were held on January 19th at the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Courthouse in Phoenix, AZ and in front of City Hall in Flagstaff, and over a dozen organizations from throughout the state drafted a joint statement calling on the Arizona state legislature to pledge a one-year moratorium on the following:
• Federal or state legislation to deny birthright citizenship to children born to undocumented migrants;
• State legislation to obstruct children’s… Read more
This Saturday marks three weeks since the Arizona shooting spree that killed six people and wounded 15 others. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was the primary target of the shooting and was critically wounded. Almost immediately, media outlets delved into circular theories on what drove accused shooter Jared Lee Loughner to kill that day.
The exact motivations of the suspect remain unclear. However, there can be no doubt the trend of violent political rhetoric needs to be examined. Just as Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik of Arizona’s Pima County publicly pleaded after the shooting, it’s time for the country to “do a little soul-searching.”
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), along with a diverse… Read more
by Susana Sanchez
Lawmakers are wrong to try to dismantle the 14th Amendment. This effort is an attack on Latinas, and on the reproductive rights of Latina immigrants.
Lawmakers from 14 states—including Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Utah — are working together to pass legislation to deny citizenship to children born here in the United States if their parents are undocumented immigrants. These politicians argue that the automatic right of birth citizenship, guaranteed by our Constitution, encourages undocumented pregnant women to cross the border and have their babies here so their kids can claim citizenship.
