As the 2012 presidential election campaign heats up, expect more violent rhetoric from the Republican party. The GOP continues to thrash about like a wounded animal as it refuses to come to grips with the fact that there is a black man in the “White” House; and the fact that…
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Call the White House to End S-Comm TODAY: Monday, August 15th — Suspend “Secure Communities.” Stop the Detentions & Deportations. Restore our Rights. Investigate the Abuses. White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111 Line is open 9am-5pm Eastern | 8am-4pm Central | 6am-2pm Pacific From the National Immigration Law Center: Join your…
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From the Pilipino Workers’ Center of Southern California: The California Assembly approved AB 889 . . . the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, sponsored by Assemblymembers Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) and V.M. Pérez (D-Coachella) passed. The bill now heads to the Senate for approval. Co-sponsored by Assemblymembers Allen (D- Sonoma),…
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Justice Kagan recusing herself, the Supreme Court, by a 4-4 vote, affirmed the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Flores-Villar v. United States. The plaintiff, Flores-Villar, was born in Mexico to an U.S. citizen father and Mexican mother; the parents were not married. Current law provides that, in order for a child…
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The Board of Immigration Appeals issued a precedential decision that states opposing governmental corruption may give rise to an asylum claim. In Matter of N- M- [pdf], 25 I&N Dec. 526 (BIA 2011), the BIA stated: (1) Opposition to state corruption may, in some circumstances, constitute the expression of political…
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A recently naturalized U.S. citizen, Dafna Linzer, writes about the litany of poorly worded questions and answer choices on the U.S. naturalization test. Some of the answer choices are flat-out incorrect: Question 1: What is the supreme law of the land? The official answer: “the Constitution.” A friend and legal…
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From the NYT: Alabama has passed a sweeping bill to crack down on illegal immigrants that both supporters and opponents call the toughest of its kind in the country, going well beyond a law Arizona passed last year that caused a furor there. […] “This bill invites discrimination into every…
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The National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Asian Law Caucus and a coalition of other civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit [pdf] yesterday challenging Georgia’s discriminatory anti-immigrant law passed last month and inspired by Arizona’s notorious SB 1070.…
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