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Standing FIRM- Don’t Enshrine Discrimination in Health Care Reform July 9, 2009From Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Center for Community Change. Originally posted at the Huffington Post. Finally, the country seems serious about reforming health care. But with discussions about a public option, cost control and competition raging, one aspect of achieving true universal coverage is being left out: what to do about immigrant […]rachelfirm
- Council on Foreign Relations: The US needs an overhaul of its immigration laws July 8, 2009Today, amid a mixed bag of news from Congress and the administration, an indpendent Council on Foreign Relations panel – co-chaired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) and former Clinton White House chief of staff Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty III – publicly called for comprehensive immigration reform. “The stakes are too high to fail […]rachelfirm
- ACTION: Tell your Senator to Oppose E-Verify NOW July 8, 2009Senator Sessions has introduced an amendment to the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2010 that would make E-Verify mandatory for all federal contractors. If implemented, it would affect almost 4 million workers. The amendment would: Make the notoriously flawed E-verify program permanent. Require all federal contractors and subcontractors to […]rachelfirm
- Honest Language and Immigration Reform: Truth in Advertising July 7, 2009Another guest post from Robert Gittelson: Much has been made recently of the statements recently made by Senator Chuck Schumer at the Migration Policy Institute, in which he called for a more honest dialogue in our national debate on immigration reform. The Washington Examiner made the following observations about Senator Schumer’s speech: “Illegal i […]rachelfirm
- Immigrants: The Pride of America July 6, 2009The Carnegie Corporation ran this great ad in Saturday’s New York Times. This is the 4th year in a row the organization has run an ad celebrating the contributions of immigrants on the 4th of July. The ad reads: Andrew Carnegie, who founded Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1911, was an immigrant from Scotland. We at [...]rachelfirm
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nicolawells // May 15, 2008 at 1:58 pm
More video coverage from Iowa:
b-roll of detention facility where people are being detained: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAm-H8B5l4g&feature=related
cedarville press conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME171CJAXI0&feature=related
AP video coverage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjTvI_Mntsw&feature=related