Takoma Park Sunday in the early spring turns out to be a big event for a change in the DC area for two reasons. The final votes are being wrangled into the corral for health care reform, and it looks like what Majority Leader Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) calls the “final yard” will be handled …
Category: Immigration Reform
Graham-Schumer Immigration Beatdown
Silver Spring The long awaited immigration “framework” for a bill to bring what was hoped would be comprehensive immigration reform made its debut in a late afternoon op-ed by Republican Senator Graham (NC) and Democratic Senator Schumer (NY). A woman working next to me on turnout for the Sunday rally and march for immigration reform …
Biggest March of Obama Term
New Orleans Don’t take my word… how about a sample from Randy Shaw’s piece from Beyond Chron today entitled, “New Immigrant Rights Campaign to Launch Largest March of Obama Era:” “Having written about how the immigrants rights movement was built, and then exploded onto the public stage in 2006, the reassembling of this movement in …