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Immigration Reform Advocates Receive JBL Awards From Tides - 09/01/09
Source: press release located here. See the first item in the history for the full text.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tides (www.tides.org) hasawarded a total of $22,500 to the 2009 recipients of the JBL Awards forExcellence in Public Advocacy. Tides' JBL Awards honor policy activists andadvocates by recognizing work that demonstrates innovative approaches tosocial change and a deep commitment to the public interest.
DHS wants your input on immigration policy, terrorism, FEMA - 08/03/09
The Obama administration has a habit of running popular voting systems - flawed systems that allows weak questions and proposals to rise to the top - and they're back with another one. This time it's concerning immigration policy and the other issues in the DHS's purview. They want your input at homelandsecuritydialogue.org
Grover Norquist group's loony libertarian immigration ideas - 06/01/09
On Friday, RedState front-paged the Brian Johnson article "Conservative Immigration Reform is Right Next to Unicorns and Leprechauns" [1]. At first you might think he's just some random libertarian loon, until you see the article in its original location at the "Alliance for Worker Freedom" [2].
DHS Dep. Asst. Sec'y for Policy is from CAP, United Nations, Ted Kennedy office (Esther Olavarria) - 02/23/09
Janet Napolitano has selected Esther Olavarria as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security. And, she's from the Center for American Progress, called around here the "think tank that can't think straight". CAP supports illegal immigration and defines opposition to massive illegal activity as "xenophobia"; see the link for more on them. And, since August 2008 she's been a CAP Senior Fellow and their Director of Immigration Policy [1], [2]
The first page has her bio containing more nuggets of great news:
Esther comes to CAP/CAPAF from the UNHCR, the UN Refugee...
Tino Cuellar/Stanford, Alexander Aleinikoff/Georgetown lead Obama's immigration transition team - 11/23/08
Tyche Hendricks of the San Francisco Chronicle offers "Stanford professor leads Obama immigration team" (link), with the news that Tino Cuellar - law professor at Stanford University - has been named as one of the two co-leaders of Barack Obama's transition team dealing with immigration.
Immigrant rights activists gather in Chicago - 08/17/07
Socialist Worker/Lee Sustar/[[August 25, 2006]]/ link
Curt Thompson Teodoro Maus press conference article - 07/11/07
From lavisionnewspaper . com ID 5234
Lideres afro americanos y latinos repudian comentarios de Perdue
(Monday, 18 September 2006) -
ATLANTA. Latinos, blackleaders assail Perdue's immigration remark
New York Coalition to Expand Voting Rights - 02/21/07
Coalition that wants to give "immigrants" voting rights in New York City.
Site: immigrantvoting.org/Coalition/nycoalition.html
"Statement of Principles": immigrantvoting.org/Coalition/principles.html
One of those is: "We need to close the gap between local government and the people it serves. New York government officials 'do not adequately reflect the faces of the people they represent."
Members of the group:
El Paso Times BNHR article - 01/15/07
"D.C. hears El Pasoan's ideas about reforms"
January 15, 2007
by Louie GilotEl Paso Times
elpasotimes.com/election/ci_5016999
AZ Democrats: Pearce Resurrects "Operation Wetback" - 09/29/06
A [[September 28, 2006]] press release from the Arizona Democratic Party ( link)
Russell Pearce Longs for Pre-Civil Rights Era Immigration Program
PHOENIX – In an interview on KJZZ Wednesday, Republican legislator Russell Pearce called for the reinstatement of Eisenhower's 1953 immigration plan, "Operation Wetback." The program, which was abolished a year later, sought to round up and deport all undocumented workers.