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The Rubble around SB1070 Injunction

New Orleans The good news on the judge’s issuance of an injunction is that: boy, this was a close call and could have been soooo much worse!  But, let’s be honest, we’re trying to pull “gold out of the garbage” as our ragpickers say.  There’s still no reason for great joy and celebration because [...]

Slim & None for Immigration Reform

Dallas Organizers involved in immigration reform were talking throughout the week about what strategy and tactics they could devise to have a chance to win real reform in 2010.  It’s probably the wrong question and with any frankness no one would like the answer since the odds are so improbable for any real reform [...]

Bancos de los Trabajadores

Tegucigalpa and Mexico City Early on Sunday morning walking through the centro in Tegucigalpa I noticed a branch of the Bancos de los Trabajadores, the Bank of the Workers.  I had heard about them repeatedly the day before while meeting with the women in the colonias Ramon Amalia Amador, and we found ourselves discussing [...]

Wedging Immigration for the Democrats

San Pedro Sula There was a strange meeting hosted by President Obama and some administration officials at the White House this week for a small group of immigration reform advocates including Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum, Eliseo Medina of SEIU, the head of the National Council of La Raza, and a couple of [...]

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