Posts Tagged Immigration

Numbers USA says real winners in Florida GOP were ‘self-deportation,’ ‘Latino dignity’

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.03.12 | 11:49 am | More from The Florida Independent

Numbers USA — an organization that agitates “For Lower Immigration Levels” — wrote this week that the “Vote Winners” in Florida’s recent GOP presidential primary “Are Latino Dignity & Self-Deportation.” More …

Florida Senate comm. blocks bill giving undocumented children in-state tuition rates

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.01.12 | 11:15 am | More from The Florida Independent

A Florida Senate higher education committee yesterday shot down a bill filed by state Sen. Rene Garcia, R-Hialeah, that would allow children of undocumented workers to qualify for in-state tuition rates at Florida colleges.
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Under current law, if you are born in Florida and go to school here through high

Activist to ‘smuggle’ banned books into Arizona to defy ban on ethnic studies

By | 01.30.12 | 10:00 am

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer famously wagged her finger at President Obama when he visited the state a week ago. Today, though, it is Brewer who is on the receiving end of a scolding as the Latino community rises up in protest against a law banning ethnic studies in the state’s More…

Florida Independent’s Marcos Restrepo talks immigration on Democracy Now!

By Cooper Levey-Baker | 01.27.12 | 4:43 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The Florida Independent’s Marcos Restrepo appeared on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez this morning to discuss the GOP presidential primary and the role immigration policy is playing in the race More….

‘Self-deportation’ another way to describe ‘attrition through enforcement’

By Marcos Restrepo | 01.27.12 | 4:23 pm | More from The Florida Independent

When GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke about “self-deportation” in Florida this week, his closest rival Newt Gingrich called it an “Obama-level fantasy,” but self-deportation is really just another way to describe “attrition through enforcement.” More…

More Occupy protesters arrested in Florida

By Marcos Restrepo | 01.25.12 | 9:35 am | More from The Florida Independent

Three protesters who took part in a national day of action to call on participants of the 2012 Global Alternative Investments Management (GAIM) conference to divest from private prisons were arrested Tuesday. More…

Colorado lawmakers say they won’t push ‘proof of citizenship’ bill this session

By John Tomasic | 01.23.12 | 9:00 am | More from The Colorado Independent

Colorado lawmakers who last year introduced legislation to address claims that perhaps thousands of undocumented residents had voted in the state will not re-introduce the legislation this year. Secretary of State Scott Gessler reportedly waved off the lawmakers, saying he felt he could address the issue outside the halls of More…

Gallup: 64% of Americans ‘dissatisfied’ with ‘level of immigration’ in U.S.

By Marcos Restrepo | 01.19.12 | 4:14 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Dissatisfaction with immigration levels is an issue that Americans are paying attention to in this presidential election year, according to a Gallup poll released this week. More…