Press Release Archive
ICYMI: POLITICO Analyzes “How Mitt Romney Lost Latinos”
03/15/12 | In an article entitled, “How Mitt Romney Lost Latinos,” POLITICO’s Glenn Thrush details how the Republican presidential frontrunner may have sealed his fate with Latino voters by fully embracing the vision of anti-immigrant architect Kris Kobach. (In other news, Kobach is coming under increased fire back home for gallivanting around the country fighting a war against immigration instead of doing his Secretary of State job in Kansas. Yet another thing for the Romney campaign to worry about.) | Read more
Whistling Past Immigration in Dixie
03/14/12 | As was true in other conservative states this year, exit polls from the Alabama and Mississippi primaries show that the Republican electorate is not all riled up about the immigration issue. Few Alabama and Missisippi primary voters declared immigration to be their priority issue, while recent polling from Fox News Latino/Latin Insights continues to highlight the problem all leading GOP candidates face with Latino voters, due to their anti-immigrant, anti-Latino stances. | Read more
Republican and Democratic Strategists Agree: Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Endangering GOP’s Chances
03/13/12 | With demographic realities now undeniable, more and more political analysts agree that Republicans are committing political suicide by embracing hard-line, anti-immigrant policies. A piece by Paul Begala in The Daily Beast, lifts up some important quotes from prominent GOP strategists who agree that Republican candidates change on immigration if they have any hopes of winning a national election. | Read more
Press Call: Latino Voters & Why Alabama Will Have an Outsize Impact on the November Elections
03/12/12 | On a pre-primary press call, the day before the contentious Alabama GOP primary, immigrant reform experts and leaders from religious and immigrant youth communities shed light on the devastating toll that Alabama’s anti-immigration law (HB 56) has had on Latino families and warned of the role Alabama will play in the national elections this November. | Read more
Attention to Alabama’s “Show Me Your Papers” Anti-Immigrant Law Grows
03/09/12 | The nation’s eyes are turning towards Alabama, as a series of developments with the state’s “show me your papers” anti-immigration law intersect with political dynamics surrounding the upcoming Republican presidential primary and general election. | Read more
By Continuing to Oppose the DREAM Act, Sen. Rubio Squanders Opportunity to Lead
03/08/12 | Yesterday, Miami-area high school valedictorian Daniela Pelaez and her sister, Dayana, came to Washington to meet with U.S. Representatives and Senators from Florida. The sisters, both of whom would benefit from the DREAM Act, recently won an administrative reprieve from deportation for two years. | Read more
Bob King of UAW Joins National Labor Leaders in Speaking Out Against Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Law
03/07/12 | National labor leaders have come out in strong opposition to Alabama’s “show me your papers” anti-immigration law, noting the disturbing parallels with Alabama’s civil rights history and calling on the state to repeal its divisive law. | Read more
Major Media Outlets Agree: Republicans in Free-Fall with Latino Voters
03/06/12 | Leading news outlets, political pundits, and commentators have come to a consensus: the Republican Party is in big trouble with Latino voters, largely because of its mishandling of the immigration issue. Yesterday, new polling from Fox News Latino documented the extent of the Republicans’ “Latino problem,” triggering a new round of analysis about the potential political consequences this November and for years to come... | Read more
ICYMI: African-American and Latino Communities Join Forces in Fight Against AL’s HB 56 Law
03/06/12 | Amidst a heated campaign to repeal Alabama’s “worst in the nation” anti-immigrant law, this year is the first time that the issue of immigration has been officially incorporated into the historic Selma to Montgomery, AL march to commemorate our nation’s struggle for civil and human rights. African American leaders have played a leading role in the campaign against HB 56 from the start. In October last year, Scott Douglas, Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, said that the Alabama anti-immigration law “combines some of the most heinous, vicious, inhumane Jim Crow legislation of the 1950s.” | Read more
As Federal Courts Consider Constitutionality of SB 1070 and HB56, the Costs & Consequences Are Clear
03/01/12 | Today in Atlanta a three judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will hear arguments over Alabama’s and Georgia’s anti-immigration laws. In mid-April, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about Arizona’s “show me your papers” law S.B. 1070, the precursor to the Alabama and Georgia anti-immigrant initiatives. | Read more
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