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Battle for the West: Voter Roll Purges, ‘True Blue’ New Mexico
Voter Rolls Purging Not True? (AP photo) Colorado and Nevada officials responded on Thursday to Wednesday’s New York Times story alleging thousands of voters have been removed from voter rolls or blocked from registering in violation of federal law. The article attributed the illegal actions to local officials making mistakes complying with the 2002 Help America Vote [...]
Australia’s Immigration Detention System “the Worst”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYGkVtqY-0 Australia’s Christmas Island detention center. From time to time it’s useful to look at how other migration-destination countries deal with illegal immigration—if only so we can feel better about the United States. Case in point: human rights advocates have told Australia’s Parliament that the country has the harshest immigration detention system in the western world. In a [...]
More Than 300 Arrested in South Carolina Immigration Raid
A four-year-old waits for word of his mother, arrested in an ICE raid. (AP Photo) Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement continue after a sweep netted more than 1,100 suspected illegal immigrants in California last month. On Tuesday, another 300 were arrested in a raid on a poultry processing plant in Greenville, S.C. (video). In a [...]
Arizona GOP Divided Over Illegal Immigration, Support for McCain
Sen. John McCain is well-known for his progressive position on immigration reform—a position that has put him at odds with many in his home state. Now, a recent Time magazine piece looks at how the “conservative” revolt against the Republican presidential candidate in Arizona (and to a lesser extent nationwide) reveals the state GOP’s [...]
Battle for the West: ACORN Raid, Debate Reviews
ACORN Office Raided in Las Vegas (AP photo) Nevada authorities raided the Las Vegas offices of a group registering voters in low income communities seeking evidence of voter registration fraud on Tuesday. Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now organizers are accused of forging signatures of names picked out of phone books and NFL players. “Tony Romo is [...]
Update on Arizona: Fears of Latino Voter Fraud Lead to Massive Disenfranchisement
Disenfranchised voter Shirley Preiss, 97. (Photo by Stokely Baksh) In an article for The Indypendent, former News 21 reporter Renee Feltz revisits Arizona, where thousands of potential voters have been unable to register due to new identification requirements. These voters, most of whom are poor, elderly and/or Latino, would have tended to vote Democratic. Thus it [...]
Battle for the West: CO the New FL?, McCain in NM
Colorado 2008 = Florida 2000? The Colorado Independent wonders if Colorado will take the crown as the poster child for election day dysfunction this year, pointing to potential problems with a new statewide voter database system and dealing with huge numbers of new voters who have to wade through with the longest ballot in the country. The [...]
Asian Voters Leaning Toward Obama, but Many Undecided
In what is billed as the most comprehensive survey of Asian voters ever conducted, researchers have found that more than a third of likely Asian voters were still undecided as of late September, along with 41 percent who are planning to vote for Obama and 24 percent supporting McCain. Only 8 percent of the general [...]
Battle for the West: Battleground Latinos, Debate Reviews, City Snapshots
Battleground Latinos A cutout of Barack Obama at a Mexican Independence Day celebration in Denver last month (Getty Images) New Mexico took center stage over the weekend on a 20-minute segment — New Voters in the New West — on NOW in PBS. Reporter Maria Hinojosa calls New Mexico “the battleground of battleground states” as she follows [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 10/4
In California, more than 1,150 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested during a three-week sweep by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the Huffington Post, Jeremy Goren tries to discern the presidential candidates’ stances on immigration. In Arizona, notorious Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced he had received more than 900 calls on his illegal immigration tip line, 50 [...]
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