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Reform Immigration for America doesn't support LGBT immigration equality - 2/28/2010

If "immigration equality" - the ability for same-sex (gay or lesbian) couples to have the same immigration privileges as straight couples - is important to you, then the article at this link about the Reform Immigration for America group not supporting "immigration equality" should be your first and last stop for the day. They aren't on your side. Please go read it now, an...

March for America: illegal immigration rally, March 21, 2010 Washington DC - 2/12/2010

... "Migration". One of the speakers will be Frank Sharry. More on EAD at advocacydays.org/about, and more on the march as it develops. Other groups involved include: * the Mexican government-linked Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights [2] * the Border Action Network (link) * the US Conference of Catholic Bishops' "Justice for Immigrants" campaign (justiceforim...

"Temporary" Protected Status for Haitian illegal aliens pushed by profiteers (Haiti earthquake) - 1/14/2010

... Studies, Casa de Maryland, and Frank Sharry's America's Voice all support TPS, with Dick Lugar saying: "It is in the foreign policy interest of the United States and a humanitarian imperative of the highest order to have all people of Haitian descent in a position to contribute towards the recovery of this island nation." See the comments above. 1/15/10 UPDATE: Janet Napolitan...

America's Voice lies, misleads in "The Anti-Worker Truth About the Anti-Immigrant Lobby" - 12/13/2009

Frank Sharry's America's Voice offers "The Anti-Worker Truth About the Anti-Immigrant Lobby" [1]. From their summary: In recent months, some of the most virulent anti-immigrant Members of Congress have been taking advantage of hard economic times to advance their same, old mass deportation agenda. They argue that blocking comprehensive immigration reform would somehow help the ...

Frank Sharry cheers race-based power; white-majority districts are "bleached districts" - 11/19/2009

Frank Sharry of America's Voice offers "Latinos Poised to Shake Up 2010 Census, Politicians Beware" at the Huffington Post [1] in which he discusses a study showing how massive immigration by Latinos will affect congressional apportionment; more on that here. The piece is basically just a celebration of race-based "raw political power", and later on he quotes from a Washin...

DHS worksite enforcement against illegal aliens plummeted under Obama, Napolitano - 11/19/2009

Per this: Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009... Fiscal 2008 ran from Oct. 1, 2007, through Sept. 30, 2008. Fiscal 2009 began Oct. 1, 2008, and ran through Sept. 30 of this year. The exact figures are: * Criminal arrests: down 60% * Criminal indictments: down 58% *...

LULAC, Mark Potok of SPLC, NCLR, America's Voice, MMFA cheer & smear over Dobbs leaving - 11/12/2009

There's a round-up of reaction from far-left groups to Lou Dobbs' announcement that he's leaving CNN here. The biases of the article's author (Victor Manuel Ramos of the Orlando Sentinel) are discussed in this separate post. The quotes below were offered at a press conference organized by Media Matters for America:

Drop Dobbs: illegal activity-supporting racial power groups and far-left want Lou Dobbs off CNN - 9/17/2009

... statistics) * Media Matters for America * Frank Sharry * Reform Immigration for America * Center for New Community * Hispanic Institute (see below) * Dolores Huerta Foundation (promoted demographic hegemony, hatred against Republicans) * National Hispanic Media Coalition * National Puerto Rican Coalition * New Democratic Network * Netroots Nation (from Dailykos and others) * Voto Latino ---------...

Napolitano immigration meeting: you weren't represented (vast # of loose borders groups, Obama/Janet anti-287g) - 8/20/2009

Earlier today, Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security held a closed-door meeting with a group of what she calls "stakeholders" (dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1250792978709.shtm) but was actually a vast pantheon (see below) of far-left, racial power, corrupt business, and in general loose borders groups all of which want some form of comprehensive immigration reform, aka amne...

Casey Sanchez/SPLC, Frank Sharry, Andrea Nill/CAP smear FAIR over non-existent connection (Dave Bennion) - 6/17/2009

... "AmericasVoiceTV" - Frank Sharry's America's Voice - is here. Unlike the SPLC, his description is completely disreputable: Shawna Forde, arrested as a suspect in a deadly home invasion in Arizona, has ties to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-immigrant group classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Hat tip to http://Ton...

Poll: 86% support immigration "reform" (as described). I.e., MSM lies are working, opponents need to work smarter (Kos, Frank Sharry) - 6/04/2009

... DailyKos, Kos informs us [1] that Frank Sharry's "America's Voice" commissioned Benenson Strategy Group to conduct a poll about comprehensive immigration reform. According to them, 86% of respondents support "reform". The fact that their description of that "reform" is highly misleading doesn't make that number any less surprising. While I tend to susp...

David Montgomery /WaPo: nearly no real reporting in Luis Gutierrez puff piece - 5/08/2009

David Montgomery of the Washington Post offers a five-screen puff piece (link) on far-left amnesty supporter Rep. Luis Gutierrez and his recent "Family Unity Tour" that completely fails to call him on his many disreputable statements, such as the time he called ICE agents "Gestapo agents". The article fails to call Gutierrez on the many huge flaws in the comprehensive immigrati...

America's Voice offers very lightweight hit piece on Jeff Sessions - 5/07/2009

... attention to a new hit piece from Frank Sharry's America's Voice that claims that Sen. Jeff Sessions has "just one degree of separation from anti-immigrant hate groups, white nationalism" [2]. As a hit piece, this is like a marshmallow wrapped in a Snuggie. For instance, they accuse him of playing the "terrorist card" in regards to the Comprehensive Immigration Refor...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting screens pro-illegal immigration film on Capitol Hill ("Made in L.A.") - 4/24/2009

Earlier today, the pro-illegal immigration movie "Made in L.A." was screened on Capitol Hill for various politicians and others; a list is at [1]. Not only were those who are public servants wasting time watching movies on the U.S.'s dime, but the further involvement of PBS cranks it up a notch: Senior Vice President of Television Content at the Corporation For Public Broadcasting T...

America's Voice agrees with Pelosi "un-American" quote; starts letter campaign (Frank Sharry) - 3/20/2009

America's Voice - run by Frank Sharry - has started a letter-writing campaign to "Thank Speaker Pelosi for Her Leadership". The "leadership" in question is her recent comments that family-separating immigration raids are "un-American", comments that she later reinforced by calling those raids "not the American way". Says they (americasvoiceonline.org/pa...

"Latino Voting in the 2008 Election: Part of a Broader Electoral Movement" - 1/28/2009

... they point to were performed by Frank Sharry's America's Voice, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and others and may have been designed to show what those groups wanted them to show. The IPC fact sheet also doesn't address general election trends. UPDATE 2: The CIS author responds to his critics here.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand immigration stance: tough or just for show? - 1/23/2009

... Tancredo on the SAVE Act," said Frank Sharry of the pro-immigrant America's Voice, citing the ex-Colorado congressman who ran for president on an anti-illegal immigrant platform... "At the end of the day, my views on illegal immigration are pretty clear," Gillibrand said of the SAVE Act. "I'm supporting the best enforcement bill that Democrats have written this sessi...

Cardinal Mahony, Janet Murguia, Unite Here, Frank Sharry, Ali Noorani pretend immigration "reform" would be good for the economy - 1/08/2009

... National Council of La Raza, Frank Sharry of America's Voice, John Wilhelm of the Unite Here union, and Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum joined on a conference call. From their press release (link), here's the "why": The preeminent moral voice supporting just and comprehensive immigration reform joins the President of one of America's leading pro-immigrant u...

Luis Gutierrez: Obama told me to tell you he supports immigration "reform"; amnesty supporters heartened - 12/19/2008

Teresa Watanabe of the Los Angeles Times offers "Immigration-overhaul supporters hope their hour has come/With Obama in office, a sympathetic Cabinet and more Democrats in Congress, supporters hope to revive a reform package next year. But the economic downturn sparks worry about protecting U.S. workers" (link). She quotes various "immigrant advocates" who think that the Obama ...

National Immigration Forum cheers Hilda Solis Labor Secretary pick (America's Voice) - 12/18/2008

... Americas Voice - new home of Frank Sharry formerly of the National Immigration Forum (NIF) - saying (link): Not only has Solis been a long-time labor advocate, she has stood firm for immigration policy that makes our nation stronger. She has also been a leader on the issue of immigrant detentions and the ill-conceived Bush administration raids. He then links to a statement from the NIF: Rep. H...

"Tour of the Faithful": Catholic Church, others try to change immigration laws (America's Voice) - 9/13/2008

... apparently organized with the help of Frank Sharry's America's Voice [2] and includes an appearance by former president Jimmy Carter and many others [3]. On October 13 they'll be holding a forum featuring unnamed Illinois politicians; one of those will probably be Luis Gutierrez. If you want to do something about this, go to one of their events and make points like these and get th...

ICE to start voluntary self-deportation program? - 7/29/2008

... press release supposedly from Frank Sharry of America's Voice [1]: In an interview on the Univision television program "Al Punto" last Sunday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary Julie Myers announced the latest Bush Administration plan to tackle the problem of undocumented immigration: voluntary self-deportation.

Moira Herbst/Business Week: local enforcement of immigration laws is "ugly" - 7/28/2008

... addition to approvingly quoting Frank Sharry, she approvingly quotes "Bill Chandler, executive director of the Jackson (Miss.)-based Mississippi Immigrants' Rights Alliance (MIRA)" (yourmira.org), who - needless to say - paints a dire picture. MIRA (not to be confused with the more famous group in Massachusetts) is a coalition of labor and other groups (Laborers International Union...

Obama favored over McCain at NCLR meet, PWW reports (Fairness Doctrine) - 7/15/2008

Comrade Rosalio Munoz from People's Weekly World reports from the National Council of La Raza convention where John McCain and Barack Obama spoke: "Incredibly, McCain did not even address the issues of the war in Iraq or his policy on health care.

Frank Sharry launches Immigration08.com - 7/09/2008

Frank Sharry of America's Voice has launched the site Immigration08.com, featuring "expert analysis" from Pete Brodnitz of Benenson Strategy Group, Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners, and Simon Rosenberg from the New Democratic Network.

Lou Dobbs not running for governor of New Jersey "right now"; Frank Sharry starts fake site; Nicole Gaoutte/LAT promotes - 6/13/2008

Lou Dobbs is rumored to be considering running for governor of New Jersey, but in a voice mail message to an NJ newspaper he denied it (link). Note, however, that he said he wasn't "considering anything right now", so that might change.

Media Matters for America on immigration "myths" ("Fear and Loathing in Prime Time") - 5/21/2008

... National Council of La Raza; and Frank Sharry of America's Voice. The first issue with their report is that it switches between discussing illegal immigration and all forms or the legal variety of immigration, a common trick. The second is that their discussion of the NAFTA Superhighway - something they label simply an "urban myth" - includes them admitting that such a highway ...

Agriprocessors meat packing raid, Postville, Iowa (kosher, UFCW) - 5/12/2008

Somewhere from a few hundred to 700 or more persons were arrested in Postville, Iowa earlier today as part of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid of the Agriprocessors meat packing plant in the town. That plant produces kosher meat and is owned by the Rubashkin family, Hasidic Jews from New York; this page has more details on the culture clash after the bought the plant and seem to h...

Frank Sharry leaves my questions unanswered, confirms MSM bias (FireDogLake forum) - 5/04/2008

Massive immigration supporter Frank Sharry - formerly of the National Immigration Forum and now with America's Voice - stopped by FireDogLake earlier today for a chat with their readers: firedoglake.com/2008/05/04/fdl-welcomes-frank-sharry-of-americas-voice While he answered questions from others, he failed to answer a few I posed despite the fact that few others asked him anything and he had...

Andres Oppenheimer's five "myths" of the "anti-immigration movement" - 1/14/2008

... immigration visas,'' says Frank Sharry, head of the National Immigration Forum, which advocates both secure borders and a path to legal residence for many of the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Perhaps there's a reason why there isn't a line for massive numbers of low-skilled workers and/or massive immigration from Mexico, yet AO doesn't go into t...

NYT almost follows the money on Western Union (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ken Salazar) - 11/24/2007

... afraid to speak up," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, which has received $40,000 from Western Union in the past three years. "When it got hot, they stayed with it." And, more sleaze practically drips from the page: Many of his customers are in the country illegally. [Michael Lee, 35, who owns an electronics store called World Top Communicat...

1994: Rudy Giuliani explicitly welcomed illegal aliens to New York City - 5/15/2007

... amnesty. However, it does contain this: [Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum] remembers watching in

STRIVE Act: not everyone happy with "touchback" (even for just one day) - 3/24/2007

... touchback provision]," said Frank Sharry, leader of the National Immigration Forum... ..."I think it's unrealistic, though, to expect these people to leave," said Ana Maria Patina, a lawyer and Hispanic activist in Santa Ana. Patina was skeptical that the government could create a program that would let illegal immigrants leave the country and return quickly. And Amin Da...

Trouble in paradise: AFL-CIO, ACLU, NIF, AFSC not fully happy with Flake-Gutierrez; Teamsters, Democrat Lampson - 3/24/2007

The American Civil Liberties Union - a group indirectly linked to the Mexican government - has a nit with the Flake-Gutierrez amnesty [1]: "Drafting comprehensive immigration reform is no easy task... [praise some provisions] ...Sadly, Title III of the bill attacks privacy by creating a national ID card.

Alliance for Immigration Reform 2007 - 1/17/2007

From this we learn of yet another coalition in favor of massive immigration, this one calling itself the "Alliance for Immigration Reform 2007". Its members include: * R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president, U.S.

Mexican citizens helping Kennedy, McCain, Flake, Berman set immigration policy - 1/16/2007

In September of last year, the "Independent Task Force on Immigration and America's Future" - "convened by the Migration Policy Institute in partnership with Manhattan Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars" - released their report called "Immigration and America's Future: A New Chapter". Two members of the "task force" ...

Tim Gaynor/Reuters: Democrats to save us from "nativists" - 12/26/2006

Tim Gaynor of Reuters offers "Nativists fan flames of U.S. immigration debate". And, it's even worse than the title might indicate.

Tim Gaynor/Reuters: "Democrats' win spurs hope of immigration revamp" - 11/09/2006

Tim Gaynor of Reuters offers this: Sweeping wins for Democrats in U.S. midterm elections have rekindled hopes among Latino activists of achieving a comprehensive overhaul of immigration policy that was blocked by Republicans in Congress. Democrats swept Republicans from power in the U.S.

Meme: Graf, Hayworth losses = support for "comprehensive immigration reform" - 11/09/2006

As regular readers know, illegal immigration supporters will go to any depth to promote amnesty and similar schemes. One meme you can expect to hear over the coming months is that the recent losses by Randy Graf and J.D. Hayworth in Arizona mean that voters want "comprehensive immigration reform". The quickest example of how that's wrong is presented by the fact that no less than fo...

Carolyn Lochhead/S.F. Chronicle omits details of NYT poll - 9/23/2006

Carolyn Lochhead, of the San Francisco Chronicle's Washington Bureau, offers "Political tide turning on illegal immigration".

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