Tanton Network group State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) released the video of its recent press conference on the 14th Amendment. The press conference announced SLLI’s plans for a campaign against the 14th Amendment. SLLI plan to push legislation through at the state level that would prevent children of undocumented parents from becoming US citizens.
In 2008, a horrific crime brought national focus to New York’s Suffolk County.
Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant, was stabbed and murdered by seven teenagers who reportedly set out that evening to beat up “some Mexicans.”
In the early 2000s, Newsday tagged Suffolk County ‘Ground Zero’ for a growing anti-immigrant movement stoked by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
Even though the Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) and Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy had indoctrinated the community with legislative policy meant to dehumanize the immigrant population there, FAIR tried to describe the murder of Marcelo Lucero as an ‘isolated event.’
Geri Mannion, director of the U.S. Democracy Program at Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Taryn Higashi, executive director of Unbound Philanthropy, received the Council on Foundations’ Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking in 2009 for their work on the Four Freedoms Fund. The Four Freedoms Fund is a collaborative fund that has invested more than $30 million since 2003 in more than 85 grantees working in 33 states to protect immigrants against abuses, promote humane immigration policies, engage newcomers in civic life and build bridges between receiving communities and new residents.
The Schrivner Award came with a $10,000 cash prize,but Mannion and Higashi opted not to spend the money themselves. Instead… Read more
On January 4, 2011 President Obama signed into law the Food Safety Modernization Act. This forward-thinking legislation enables swifter recalling of contaminated food products. The law authorizes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase inspections of many domestic food facilities, enhance detection of foodborne illness outbreaks, and order recalls of tainted food products
This doesn’t necessarily translate into consumer,… Read more
The anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) published its immigration agenda for the 112th Congress yesterday. FAIR outlined three areas where it wants reform namely “illegal immigration reform, national security reform and legal immigration reform.” FAIR also attempt to blame “illegal immigration and mass immigration” for increases in crime and environmental degradation.
Leaders of the new House Majority did not slack off during the Christmas break. In the giving spirit of the season, they generously provided new names to several key Committees. The Education and Labor Committee was re-christened the Education and Workforce Committee, while the Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties was sliced to the Constitution Subcommittee. “Word changes, they’re just word changes,” one chuckling wag said.
In an unsent press release found on a back room floor, House leaders stated that “Our intent is to be more inclusive, in the spirit of our new role here. “Workforce” is a term that embraces all employees, not just those involved in “labor.” And… Read more
Earlier this week, the Hispanic Leadership Network Conference was hosted in Miami, and the topic of immigration was inevitably broached. Part of the panel on “Media & Messaging: Communicating Principles with Precision” was syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, Jr. who gave a no-holds-barred rundown of the state of the GOP on immigration. Navarrette argued that the GOP has a problem with offensive rhetoric on immigration, and pointed out that Republicans have compared Latino immigrants to “dogs,” “grasshoppers,” etc.”
He also made the argument that the Republican Party (1) deals with immigration dishonestly (2) caters to that ugly element of racism and (3) offers “solutions” that ignore the problem such as the attacks on the… Read more
The tragic events in Tuscon on January eighth have clearly left the world in awe. Such deviations in the standard function of civil society always have. Speculations abound, aligning the shooter Jared Lee Loughner with countless ideological ties that spurred the attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her constituency.
But despite this frenetic tangle of purported motivations, it seems that explanations have crystallized on the issue of firearm allowances in the US—especially from those who identify themselves as members of the political left.
All other discussion seems to evaporate when the argument shifts to the more pragmatic issue of gun control: clearly, one could not have facilitated such an attack without the necessary equipment. And… Read more
For years, anti-immigrant groups have had a field day in Arizona; using the state to test out the viability of racist legislation like SB 1070.
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and its legal arm Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) have been at the forefront of these efforts for nearly a decade – most recently unveiling plans at a January 5 press conference in Washington DC to introduce state legislation to dismantle the 14th Amendment.
The effort is fronted by Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, who is best known for working with FAIR to introduce SB 1070. Kris Kobach and Mike Hethmon, both attorneys with IRLI, were featured speakers at the event.… Read more
The publishing arm of the Tanton Network, The Social Contract Press issued a press release on January 12th calling for a ban on all Muslim immigration to the United States. The press release is the most recent example of Islamophobic rhetoric coming from Tanton Network groups.
