Desperately Seeking Scandals: The Right-Wing Media’s Attempt To Take Down Obama
Since President Obama's election, right-wing media have tried to find wrongdoing by top Obama administration officials. The pseudo-scandal they have contrived have resulted in investigations,...
View ArticleSolange Uwimana: Study: Fox News Viewers Hold More Anti-Immigrant,...
Americans who rely on Fox News or conservative radio as their main sources of information are more likely to have negative views of Latinos and immigrants than those who watch more mainstream outlets....
View ArticleNaturalized Citizens Earn Almost 70 Percent More Than Noncitizens
Immigrants who become naturalized U.S. citizens in the U.S.
View ArticleLatino Students Returning To School After Federal Court Orders Block...
When Judge Sharon Blackburn ruled last year that a controversial provision in Alabama’s immigration law requiring schools to check the immigration status of newly enrolled students could go into...
View ArticleImmigration Question Sparks Most Tweets During Presidential Debate
Out of the 7.2 million tweets sent during last night’s presidential debate, the reaction on Twitter peaked with 109,560 tweets per minute after the question about immigration. An audience member asked...
View ArticleThe Deferred Action Process Is Working, But Mitt Romney Would Stop Its Success
Each day, about 3,000 young undocumented immigrants are applying for deferred action , Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano explained last week. As of October 10, that added up to almost...
View ArticleMexican Restaurant Defends Racist Shirts As ‘Witty And Comical’
On Monday, ThinkProgress reported about a Mexican restaurant in Columbia, South Carolina whose employees wear T-shirts (pictured below) showing a wooden trap with tacos as bait and the caption “HOW TO...
View ArticleArizona Governor Thinks The Border Is Not Secure Enough, Despite Billions...
Along the U.S. border with Mexico, the number of people stopped while crossing the border illegally has decreased , and there are more “boots on the ground” along the border than ever before in the...
View ArticleKansas Governor’s Tax Plan Will Cost Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars, Despite...
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R), like Republican governors all across the country , aims to implement a regressive tax plan that involves cutting income taxes for the rich while, in his case,...
View ArticleWhy Undocumented Immigrants Are Terrified To Report Crimes, And How One City...
As leaders in some localities, like Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona are trying to make undocumented immigrants’ lives as inhospitable and miserable as possible, the city of Dayton, Ohio...
View ArticleFox News Uses Supervised Release Of Undocumented Immigrants To Hype Fears Of...
Fox News personalities are hyping fears that a supervised release of undocumented immigrants will lead to more crime. But the immigrants affected by this policy are still subject to deportation and...
View ArticleEmily Arrowood: Hannity Omits Jeb Bush’s Reversal On Support For Pathway To...
Fox's Sean Hannity hosted former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick to hype their new book on immigration reform -- but Hannity never acknowledged that the book marked a major reversal of...
View ArticleHow Three Top Republicans Are Already Blowing Up The RNC’s Minority Outreach...
Well, that didn’t take long.
View ArticleMore Than 300 Immigrants Are Being Held In Solitary Confinement
According to a report in the New York Times on newly released federal data, roughly 300 immigrants are currently being held in solitary confinement at the 50 largest facilities throughout the United...
View ArticleSalvatore Colleluori: Fox & Friends Invent New Border Conspiracy Theories
Fox News host Steve Doocy and contributor Michelle Malkin invented new border conspiracy theories to attack comprehensive immigration reform proposals after Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) visited the...
View ArticleImmigration Reform Deal Close Senators Say, Could Be ‘Rolled Out Next Week’
Key lawmakers involved in ongoing bipartisan discussions on a comprehensive immigration reform bill signaled optimism on the Sunday morning talk show circuit, with Sens.
View ArticleSolange Uwimana: Fox Uses "Undocumented Immigrant" Term It Has Criticized
Fox News identified an immigrant as "undocumented" during an America Live segment today, even as the network has criticized others for using the term. In fact, host Megyn Kelly previously stated that...
View ArticleSolange Uwimana: 5 Immigration Experts Who Denounce Right-Wing Radio’s...
Immigration experts dispute right-wing radio claims that the comprehensive immigration reform proposal is "amnesty." Indeed, the legislation introduced in the Senate on April 17 by a bipartisan group...
View ArticleSalvatore Colleluori: Anti-Immigrant Fox Guest Falsely Ties Boston Bombings...
Fox News guest Michael Cutler, a former agent with the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Services and also a fellow at the nativist organization the Center for Immigration Studies, used the...
View ArticleSolange Uwimana: Fox News Contributors Sign Letter Urging Immigration Reform...
At least six Fox News contributors have reportedly signed on to an open letter opposing the comprehensive immigration reform legislation currently being debated in the Senate. Fox News, which has...
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