New Orleans Big city police chiefs from places like Miami,Sacramento, and elsewhere came out yesterday against 287(g). They don’t want local police forces to be confused with the immigration storm troopers of ICE. The Miami chief in a published report cited the downturn of cooperation between immigrants and police in his city as dating from a “get-tough-on-immigrants” …
Month: July 2009
Reader Survey: Fox News Special Report?
Seattle My morning started with a long call with a young producer and 8-year veteran of Fox News Special Reports explaining to me why the special reports in depth documentaries were different from the regular whack Fox News. What a job? Her real pitch is that they had been “tasked,” as she said with …
Seattle Library and Social Policy
We were greeted by a gorgeous, sunny day in Seattle with a couple of free hours before the book event at Secky Fasciane’s house, so my colleague John Anderson from Vancouver ACORN indulged me and off we went to find the new Seattle Central Public Library. I was eager to see the Rem Koolhaus building …