Republican Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, removed from the governor’s mansion “Wishes in the Wind,” a painting of three children of different races, replacing it with a century-old painting of a pre-Civil War eagle. From the Journal Sentinel: Earlier this year, the governor and first lady Tonette Walker took down…
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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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From El Diario: Governor Cuomo’s decision to suspend New York’s participation in the so-called Secure Communities program not only brings relief to vulnerable immigrant families but also helps build their confidence in government and the police. Since former Governor David Paterson signed onto Secure Communities, community organizations, elected officials and…
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The Illinois DREAM Act (SB2185), legislation that would offer undocumented youth better access to higher education, passed in the Illinois House of Representatives on a bipartisan 60-54 vote. SB 2185 was sponsored in the House by Rep. Edward Acevedo. The Illinois DREAM Act will establish a privately-funded Illinois DREAM Fund,…
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Mexican-born Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta was killed on November 15, 2004, in Fallujah, Iraq, where he heroically smothered a grenade explosion with his body saving the lives of six fellow Marines. Peralta came to the U.S. as a teen without legal documentation. Sgt. Peralta was not given the Medal of…
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In a 5-3 decision, the Supreme Court upheld, in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, the Legal Arizona Workers Act of 2007 and its so-called business death penalty for employers who repeatedly hire illegal immigrants. The state law also requires employers to check the federal E-Verify system before hiring new workers,…
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A symposium was held earlier this year, entitled: “Perceptions of Race and Racial Inequity in the Obama Era.” Unsurprisingly, but still dumbfounding nonetheless, a set of findings determined that “many Whites see the racial pendulum as having swung beyond equality to a place where anti-White prejudice is now a bigger…
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