2 days ago by mlyon01

The Progressive, December 2009/January 2010 MASS FIRINGS – THE NEW FACE OF IMMIGRATION RAIDS By David Bacon LOS ANGELES, CA (12/10/09) — Ana Contreras would have been a competitor for the national tai kwon do championship team this year. She’s 14. For six years she’s gone to practice instead of birt ...

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5 days ago by Proud American

Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, makes debut opinion referring to illegal immigrants as undocumented workers. Other stories of interest: Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing and Answers to Activist Judicial Profile Sonia Sotomayor Doesn’t Have A Leg To Stand On

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6 days ago by Ramon Bannister

There has been a new story published on the Kena Cubed cover story page since 12/7. It is shorter than the other stories about immigration, but no less important. We are transitioning to individual experiences – in this case, the perspectives of Angela Perez and a Mexican police officer. Keep in min ...

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7 days ago by Dee

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is already making a difference! She is introducing Humanitarian Language to the Supreme Court's Vocabulary! Thank you Justice Sotomayor! Think Progress Reports: Sotomayor’s opinion marks the Supreme Court’s first use of the term ‘undocumented immigrant.’ Yesterday, the Suprem ...

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7 days ago by pcat9

Interesting item mentioned in the New York Times today on the last two paragraphs of an article regarding the Supreme Court. “In an otherwise dry opinion, Justice Sotomayor did introduce one new and politically charged term into the Supreme Court lexicon. Justice Sotomayor’s opinion in the case, Moh ...

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9 days ago by Terry Greene Sterling

The people in the shadows often pray to the Virgin of Guadalupe. They pray to the brown Virgen because after all she is a mom, the one who cares, the one who loves them unconditionally and will intercede on their behalf with all the male deities in her family. The Virgen has brown skin, just like th ...

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15 days ago by Terry Greene Sterling

Just when he was getting really uncomfortable, Sheriff Joe Arpaio escaped on Monday night from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He stepped off the podium. His aides led him away. I’ll tell you why. First, though, full disclosure. I am the w ...

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33 days ago by Terry Greene Sterling

The other day, I wrote about Arizona’s polygamists and it got me to thinking about how undocumented immigrants aren’t the only underdogs in the Grand Canyon state. So-called “sister wives” in some Arizona polygamist enclaves are married off as teens to old men and then reassigned to other old men, a ...

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37 days ago by Ramon Bannister

The Minute Man Project – some think it’s an extreme reaction. But something needs to be done. Or does it? Do we need to patrol the border at all? Shouldn’t we simply open the gates and let the river flow? Minute Man participants say no, that we would have a flood. Others say yes, that our ancestors ...

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41 days ago by Terry Greene Sterling

A few months ago, in Phoenix, illegal immigration opponents testified tearfully about how cops had been shot by undocumented immigrants. This wasn’t a street rally, it was a state senate subcommittee hearing chaired by Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, who spearheaded passage of The Employer San ...

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