New Orleans A lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center named Jim Knoepp found a way to get my attention when he was quoted in a story about potential employment discrimination between United States workers and immigrant farm labors, saying, “Think of trash collection. That’s not very appealing, either. But if you offer decent [...]
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Calgary Walking this morning, light snow was still sticking to the embankments along the curbside and puddles had a thin sheet ice, as spring was coming late to the northern Rockies. Calgary continues to be an oil rich boomtown with population now surpassing a million people with low unemployment throughout the province of Alberta, the [...] New Orleans Senator Mark Rubio of Florida cautions that there may be much work to be done on a new immigration bill, but I really wonder if that actually means that he is not ready to slip from attention yet or is trying to drag a potential bill down with some of his own issues? Optimism [...] Little Rock The Wall Street Journal had a big headline that Mark Zuckerburg and some tech buddies were getting jiggy and going political. He and his pals have created a 501c4 to do political work in Washington and have already anted up millions of the $55 million they hope to raise to step up their [...] Little Rock Polls out today from Brookings and the Public Religion Research Institute indicate that the American people continue to shift significantly to favor a legal path to citizenship for immigrants by a huge 70%+ majority among Democrats and over 50% for Republicans. The hater patrol stoked by rightwing radio and television only finds 17% [...] New Orleans It would be nice to believe that we are finally coming to the endgame on the long battle to win real immigration reform and a path to citizenship for millions. Personally, I’m not convinced we are going to be all that happy with how this sausage is made, but still we have to [...] |
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