A recent report by the anti-immigrant group Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) which claimed that most of the jobs created by Rick Perry in Texas went to immigrants, has come under a lot of criticism in recent weeks. This continued into today when the reports author, Steven Camarota and California politician Chuck DeVore continued the argument about the accuracy of CIS’s findings which have been heavily scrutinized in the past.
When the Occupy Wall Street protest began three weeks ago, major media outlets ignored it. Then the media resorted to labeling it as leaderless and muddled – giving the overall impression that the unrest in lower Manhattan was a pointless exercise in democratic freedom. Journalists seemed to take special pleasure in focusing on the more outlandish elements of the protests.
After over 700 were arrested marching across the Brooklyn Bridge, media outlets begrudgingly covered the surging movement – tinging their newscasts and editorials with confused contempt.
Now, with similar protests springing up around the… Read more
Por L. Flores
Hace unos años atrás, un día de tantos mientras caminaba bajo el sol de centro América, pensaba: que sería vivir en un país donde no existiera tanta violencia?
Caminaba y pensaba, que tan bueno sería cambiar mi tipo de vida actual por un cómodo carro, por una soda bien helada, por unos cuantos dólares para poder ir con los amigos y familia a la playa o de compras a un mall con aire acondicionado , sin el temor de encontrarse con uno que otro ladronzuelo a mi alrededor de dejar por un día de pensar que en el bus de hoy que Dios me proteja de algún loco que con un arma… Read more
Originally posted by Huffington Post: 10/8/11 07:49 PM ET Updated: 10/8/11 09:21 PM ET
On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 131, the second bill of the two-part California Dream Act, allowing undocumented immigrant students to apply for state-funded financial aid for college.
In July, Brown signed AB 130, making funding from private sources available to undocumented students. With Saturday’s signing of AB 131, the California Dream Act passed in its entirety, granting undocumented students access to public and private funding for college.
“Going to college is a dream that promises intellectual excitement and creative thinking,” said Brown in a press release. “The Dream Act benefits us all by giving top students a
Originally published in The Progressive. By Eric K. Ward, October 5, 2011
The reckless hunt for undocumented immigrants is placing all of us in the economic crossfire.
Recently, U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn ruled that portions of HB 56, a controversial Alabama immigration bill signed into law last June, could now be implemented. As a result, already financially strapped local police and school administrators will be forced to shift precious resources to assume an enforcement role that blurs the historic line between local and federal authority.
For local communities, these unfunded mandates are no longer simply a way to express frustration with a broken immigration system. Rather, they have become an economic problem that
The anti-immigrant group Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a new report this week titled “A Record-Setting Decade of Immigration: 2000-2010″ by Steven Camarota. The report claims that between 2000 and 2010, more immigrants came to the United States than in any other time in history. The report states that these levels of immigration will continue without a change in policy.
Representative Dave Agema, a Republican from Michigan’s 74th district in the state House of Representatives, has become an ever-increasing voice for extremism during his three terms in office. Agema is now eying a primary challenge to Congressman Bill Huizinga—perhaps this is one explanation for why he has been ginning up so much political theater and symbolic legislation.
Most recently, capitol lawmakers were shocked when Rep. Agema both invited a “former terrorist” to testify to the Commerce Committee and helped pay for a rally at which the man spoke.
Kamal Saleem claims to have a long record of terrorist activity. According to his own website, Saleem ran terrorist missions against Israel on behalf… Read more
Last week anti-immigrant group Californians for Population Stabilization’s (CAPS) Senior Writing Fellow, Maria Fotopoulos, interviewed GrowthBusters documentary filmmaker Dave Gardner. The interview, titled “Addicted to Growth,” promotes Gardner’s film, which is set to be released later this month.
GrowthBusters focuses on notions of limits to growth, water shortages, hunger, peak oil resources, and species extinction. The film also focuses on overpopulation as a key environmental concern. While limits to growth and discussions about resources, consumption, and population are all important discussions worthy of widespread participation, groups like CAPS – with their wildly controversial histories, leadership, and goals – are about far more than simply promoting open dialogue about such issues.
For… Read more
The anti-immigrant movement rejoiced last week with the news that most provisions of Alabama’s new anti-immigrant law were upheld in court.
One of the most controversial provisions, one that allows police officers to ask for proof of legal status during routine police stops – the politically correct phrasing for racial profiling – was also upheld; however, in the case of Arizona’s SB1070, this provision was not upheld by the judge.
Regardless, the anti-immigrant movement couldn’t conceal its collective glee at the verdict with the law’s author, the anti-immigrant movement’s star lawyer, Kris Kobach, stating rather ineloquently:
“It really helps the other states trying to fight the good fight here in stopping illegal immigration.”
On Oct. 2, The Social Contract Press held its 35th Writers’ Workshop, a gathering for bigots to hone their networking and communications skills amid the cacophonous prattling of anti-immigrant and white nationalist panel discussions.
Founded in 1990, The Social Contract Press (TSCP) is a project of John Tanton, the chief architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement and a prominent white nationalist. The press has published a number of inarguably racist books, including Camp of the Saints by French nationalist Jean Raspail, and releases a quarterly journal, The Social Contract. The latter has featured work by such nativists as Garrett Hardin, an ecologist renowned for his harsh population control advocacy, and… Read more
