North Carolina GOP Files Arizona-Style ‘Show Me Your Papers’ Bill

North Carolina GOP Files Arizona-Style ‘Show Me Your Papers’ Bill: Four North Carolina House Republicans filed a bill on Wednesday that notably introduces the “show me your papers” provision of Arizona’s anti-immigration law. Under the bill, H.B. 786, police can check the immigration status of anyone they stop or arrest and detain them for “reasonable suspicion.” The bill also makes it easier for police to [...]/p

New Voters, New Values

New Voters, New Values
"Women, Latinos, African Americans, and the 
young don’t believe what older white men believe. Their views fueled Obama’s victory and may portend a new Democratic majority."

How Organizations with Ties to Hate Groups Are Trying to Influence the Immigration Debate

How Organizations with Ties to Hate Groups Are Trying to Influence the Immigration Debate
"The U.S. House of Representatives held its first hearings for the current session on immigration reform Tuesday. Many immigration groups also submitted official testimony for the record. One name, in particular, jumped out as questionable, at best, in terms of being an expert witness on the topic of immigration—Jessica Vaughan, who submitted a written statement. Vaughan is the director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), an organization that portrays itself as an "independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization" that advocates a "low-immigration, pro-immigrant" public policy. In reality, CIS is connected to a shadowy network of anti-immigrant funders and activists who participate in or are associated with movements for white nationalism."

DREAMers Target GOP, Chant ‘Undocumented And Unafraid’ At Immigration Hearing

DREAMers Target GOP, Chant ‘Undocumented And Unafraid’ At Immigration Hearing: A group of young immigrants interrupted the first congressional hearing on immigration reform Tuesday to protest the GOP’s opposition to the DREAM Act. They chanted “undocumented and unafraid” as they were quickly escorted out of the room. The protesters targeted Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), one of the 160 Republicans who voted against the DREAM Act [...]/p

Blacks, Hispanics Waited Almost Twice As Long To Vote As Whites In 2012

Blacks, Hispanics Waited Almost Twice As Long To Vote As Whites In 2012: During the November 2012 election, Black and Hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long to vote as whites, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis. New York Times graphs summarizing the analysis show that white voters waited an average of 12.7 minutes, while Black and Hispanic voters waited an average of 20.2 minutes: Long lines in several [...]/p

Lou Barletta (R-PA) Wouldn't Be An American If His Immigration Standards Had Been Official US Policy

Lou Barletta (R-PA) Wouldn't Be An American If His Immigration Standards Had Been Official US Policy
"And if the United States had barred "low-skilled" non-high school graduates when Italians were pouring wave after wave into Ellis Island, it's likely that neither Barletta, Antonin Scalia or Rick Santorum would call themselves Americans today.

But apparently, none of this bothers Barletta in the least.

Hey, eff you, Mexicans. He got his."

Crusader Limbaugh Goes To War With Immigration Reform

Crusader Limbaugh Goes To War With Immigration Reform
"Boss Rush is all over comprehensive immigration reform, declaring that "it's up to [him] and Fox News" to stop immigration reform, before it's too late."

Republican Advocacy Group Coaching GOP on How Not Sound like Racist A**holes | Alternet

Republican Advocacy Group Coaching GOP on How Not Sound like Racist A**holes | Alternet
"But it also seems like pretty obvious advice—or at least it should be obvious advice to any congressman who doesn't hate brown people. And the fact that the pro-GOP Hispanic Leadership Network thought it was necessary to remind their party not to say offensive things like "send them all back" is a damn harsh commentary on the state of the Republican Party."

Four Important Ways Immigration Reform Could Benefit America’s Economy

Four Important Ways Immigration Reform Could Benefit America’s Economy: A bipartisan group of senators introduced a comprehensive immigration reform plan today that would reshape the nation’s outdated economic laws by putting 11 million undocumented immigrants on a path to citizenship while boosting border security. The plan would expand the pool of visas for highly-skilled immigrant workers and put young immigrants and undocumented agricultural workers [...]/p

Why the current GOP can't win Latinos

Why the current GOP can't win Latinos
"Or put another way, nearly 67,000 Latinos turn 18 every month according to Pew, with 93 percent of them U.S. citizens and eligible to vote. Couple that with the over 100,000 elderly (and predominantly conservative) whites who die each month, and you're looking at over 3 million new potential Latino voters, and nearly 5 million fewer white voters. In just four years.

Or put yet another way: Texas will be a swing state by 2024."

O’Reilly: Black Voters Don’t Believe In ‘Self Reliance’ Or ‘American Exceptionalism’

O’Reilly: Black Voters Don’t Believe In ‘Self Reliance’ Or ‘American Exceptionalism’: Since the night of the election, Bill O’Reilly has been looking for a scapegoat on whom he can blame Mitt Romney’s loss. He seems to have found one in African American, Latino, and female voters. Before all the votes were even cast on November 6, O’Reilly came out with the theory that “The white establishment [...]/p

Watch Actress Eva Longoria Speak at DNC

Julián Castro's DNC Keynote Speech

Mayor Julián Castro of San Antonio delivered the keynote speech Tuesday night at the 2012 Democratic National Convention

Five Things To Know About The Romney Advisor Responsible For Arizona’s Illegal Attack On Immigrants

Five Things To Know About The Romney Advisor Responsible For Arizona’s Illegal Attack On Immigrants: pOur guest blogger is Anh Phan, Manager of the Anti-Hate Table at the Center For American Progress Action Fund It’s time to get to know Kris Kobach, the author of Arizona’s SB1070 law and Romney immigration advisor, whose work was largely gutted by the Supreme Court on Monday. Unfortunately the one portion upheld by the [...]/p

Rep. Steve King opines on minorities and their 'victims groups'

Rep. Steve King opines on minorities and their 'victims groups'
"I really don't have the energy to deal with this racist, thick-headed little twerp right now, so let's get through this quickly. Rep. Steve King is the same person who just got through telling a reporter that he never "heard of" anyone getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest, so apparently he's just given up entirely on controlling his own mouth, relying on his press people to clean it up afterwards. Well, here ya go, Steve King's press person. Knit a silk purse out of this pile of crap"

Poll: 64 Percent Of New Yorkers Think Police Favor Whites

Poll: 64 Percent Of New Yorkers Think Police Favor Whites: The New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk initiative may not be getting guns off the street or reducing crime, but it is certainly making an impact on public opinion. A new poll by the New York Times found that a significant majority of New Yorkers think police favor whites over blacks. The sentiment is especially [...]/p

For People of Color, Paul Ryan May Be Even Worse Than Romney | Alternet

For People of Color, Paul Ryan May Be Even Worse Than Romney | Alternet
"Romney and Ryan may make a telegenic pair, but the reality of their policies and philosophies is downright ugly."

Revealed: How Conservative Radio Creates an Echo Chamber of Hate | Alternet

Revealed: How Conservative Radio Creates an Echo Chamber of Hate | Alternet
"The study, released last month by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, used Hannity's radio show and four programs – the "Rush Limbaugh Show," the "Glenn Beck Program," "Savage Nation" and the "John & Ken Show" -- as the focus of an investigation of the influence and confluence of specific interests in ultra-conservative radio programming. The results, as you might imagine, were not surprising.

“The findings reveal that the hosts promoted an insular discourse that focused on, for example, anti-immigration, anti-Islam and pro-Tea Party positions,” the study concluded. “This discourse found repetition and amplification through social media"."

New Analysis: Voter Purges Disproportionately Remove Minorities, Seniors, Young People

New Analysis: Voter Purges Disproportionately Remove Minorities, Seniors, Young People: Catalist, a company that provides voting list data to progressive organizations, is among the closest observers of changes to voting rolls around the country. In analysis shared with ThinkProgress, the company observes that since November 2008, certain groups of living residents have been far more likely to be purged from the voting roles than others. [...]/p

Sheriff Joe On Trial: 'Tough' Guy is Looking Pretty Pathetic

Sheriff Joe On Trial: 'Tough' Guy is Looking Pretty Pathetic
"Our favorite nativist nutcase in an actual position of authority, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, has been coming down off the high notes of his dramatic investigation of President Obama's birth certificatethe past couple of weeks. Because he's finally on trial for his racial-profiling policies targeting Latinos in his community."