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Terrorism in Norway: Racism Implicated in Gunman, News Reports (updated)
TweetThe terrible news, as you’ve no doubt heard by now, is that there were two terrorist attacks in Norway – one at the capital of Oslo and another, more deadly attack, just outside the city at a camp...
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One More Reason to Oppose Secure Communities Policy: It’s Racist
TweetThe secure communities policy is driving a massive increase in deportations. Since President Obama took office, we have seen one million deportations. In 2010, the United States deported 400,000...
View ArticleFixing Immigration Requires Historical Understandings & A Sense of Humanity
Tweet Americans need to be intellectually honest (rather than want to laugh) when empirical and historical evidence concerning immigration realities are provided. Immigration is intertwined and...
View ArticleThe U.S. Today: Still Diversifying
Tweet The MSNBC website has a nice summary of the new census data a lot of folks are talking about, titled “Census: Minorities now surpass whites in US births.” According to census bureau figures for...
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Arizona’s Jan Brewer v. the Deferred Action Program
TweetOn Wednesday August 15, eligible undocumented immigrants throughout the nation began to apply for work permits under the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. As...
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What’s Wrong with “Wetback”?: What a Congressman’s Slur Reveals
TweetAlaska Congressman Don Young (R-AK) referred to Mexican farm workers as “wetbacks.” in a recent radio interview on KRBD-FM (Ketchikan, AK), Young was attempting to make a point about the...
View ArticleRacist, Immoral Dehumanization of Immigrant Children
TweetThere are two main challenges in addressing the border issue of increased numbers of undocumented children traveling alone from Central America to the US. The first is that the dehumanization of...
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Signs of Racism: “Save Our Country Close Our Borders”
TweetRecent Central American migration has generated numerous protests across the U.S. Yet this backlash differs because the primary targets of white anti-immigrant sentiment are Guatemalan,...
View ArticleDemocracy & American DREAMers: DACA & Undocumented Latino Youth
TweetImmigration—particularly undocumented immigration—continues to be an unresolved issue in America; however, it is part of the larger unresolved issue of the political and social inclusion of...
View ArticleObama and Immigration Reform
TweetOn November 19, after a long delay, President Obama issued an Executive Action on Immigration Reform that contained three stipulations. First, more resources will be given to law enforcement...
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