A defeat for the Tea Party? Russell Pierce loses election
In Arizona, the Tea Party loses a key ally in pushing one of the nation's harshest anti-immigrant...
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Tag Archives: SB 1070
Legislative Session: Early Hurricane Season
The Florida legislative session has just begun, and already twelve anti-immigrant bills have been filed, including copycat legislation based on Arizona's controversial racial profiling bill, SB 1070. Thus far all of them have been filed by the the Republican leadership...
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Arizona Shooter Followed Anti-Immigrant Group
According to an internal memo from the Department of Homeland Security that Fox News obtained on the possible motives of Jared Loughner’s shooting rampage: […] strong suspicion is being directed at AmRen / American Renaissance. Suspect is possibly linked to this...
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Latino Vote: What States To Watch Election Night 2010
The 2010 midterm elections are finally here and for all the lopsided attention the conservative media has given to white voters that support the Tea Party, perhaps the under reported story of the day will be the vote tallies reflecting the...
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The Economics of Jailing Economic Refugees
[Video]: Keith Olbermann segment on this story: Via ThinkProgress: In September, ThinkProgress published an investigation into the prison industry’s role in helping enact SB1070, the anti-immigrant racial profiling law passed in Arizona. We charted the role of the private prison...
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Congressman Depicted As “Bandido” By Republicans in AZ?
Video of Congressman Raul Grijalva, Chairman of the Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives speaking about racist tactics being used by his opposition to unseat him because he opposed Arizona's SB 1070...
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Carly Fiorina Pal’ing Around With Supporter of Neo-Nazi Law: Sarah Palin
Post demanding that California Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina denounces endorsment of Sarah Palin due to Palin's support of Arizona's authoritarian neo-Nazi law and opposition to gay marriage....
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Arizona: Why The Nazi Comparisons
Arizona's controversial immigration has raise some questions of its ties to neo-Nazis in America and whether or not it's appropriate to compare the law to Nazi Germany. Are we being too tolerant of...
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Economic Refugee News: Weekly Roundup 06/06/10
Economic Refugee News Weekly Roundup is a weekly summary of those stories that caught the focus of immigrants' rights activists, promoting immigration reform, racial unity, compassion, American freedom, and justice for...
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Meg Whitman: The Next Pete Wilson?
On the race for California’s next governor, Project Economic Refugee previously exposed Steve Poizner for all his poisonous rhetorical attacks on immigrants, economic refugees, and by extension on Latinos and other minorities. Meanwhile, Meg Whitman, his opponent in the Republican...
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