By Tracy Dingmann “Expel” isn’t a word we hear often in these United States. It’s a harsh, ugly word that literally means “to force out.” For people like me who love words and appreciate their every connotation, “expel” brings to mind vermin or trash – something so vile that it must be hurled violently away. [...]
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By Tracy Dingmann We like this post from blogger Matt Reichbach, who blogs at NMFBIHOP.com and writes occasionally at the New Mexico Independent. In the post from NMFBIHOP last night, Reichbach linked to an interesting post from the SEIU blog. The SEIU post that noted that, under the drive currently being pushed by some U.S. [...]
By Tracy Dingmann Albuquerque City Councilor Rey Garduño remembers what happened last May when he and fellow councilor Ken Sanchez introduced a measure calling for Albuquerque to stop doing business with Arizona over its controversial immigration law. His city email and phone were besieged with calls from people telling the Albuquerque native to “Go back [...]
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By Tracy Dingmann An interactive, multi-media forum on immigration devoted a healthy chunk of time to an immensely complicated and explosive issue – and for that, KUNM-FM, KNME-TV and the New Mexico Independent deserve kudos. The July 14 panel discussion at the KNME studios featured Rep. Dennis Kintigh, R-Roswell, a former FBI special agent; Marcela [...]
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By Tracy Dingmann Just because a group calls itself FAIR doesn’t mean it is. Take the Federation for American Immigration Reform – FAIR – the group behind Arizona’s odious new immigration law (scroll to the end for the part where the group takes credit for helping craft it). Not content with passage of the law, [...]
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By Tracy Dingmann Anchor baby. It’s a hateful term used to describe a child of undocumented immigrants who is born in the U.S. and thus an American citizen. And it’s being used a lot right now by folks in Arizona who are working on a bill to deny U.S. citizenship to children born here – [...]
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The Mexican drug cartels are armed and dangerous. And their business model is thriving. They sell massive amounts of product in the U.S. – and U.S. arms dealers sell literally tons of weapons to the cartels. (Mexican President Calderon brought this fact to the attention of our Congress: Of the 75,000 assault weapons seized by [...]
Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas of Albuquerque was already outraged about the state of Arizona’s decision to pass a law requiring state and local law enforcement officers to ask for identification from people they believe are in the country illegally. Maestas, an Albuquerque attorney, and many others believe the law gives police the right to stop [...]
Sometimes what you don’t hear from a movement speaks much louder than what you do. Take the Tea Party – known for screaming about the alleged Constitutional violations perpetrated daily by President Barack Obama and his health care endorsing goons, not to mention the federal, state and local government that dares to tax them for [...]
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A bill that would require Arizona police to stop and interrogate people about their immigration status if they have brown skin or speak Spanish is sitting on Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s desk –and it looks like she just might sign it into law. If Brewer signs the bill giving the state the power to enforce [...]
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