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Month: September 2010
Democrats Gain Latino Voters With DREAM Act
It looks like the carefully calculated political move by Senator Harry Reid to bring the DREAM Act up for a vote before the midterm elections may just help his re-election battle after all. The latest tracking poll from Latino Decisions Read More …
Mapping Juan Crow Cities
I am migrating a few of my favorite blog posts over the past year to my personal blog. I apologize if this causes issues with your RSS feeds. Do you really live in a racially diverse city in the United Read More …
The DREAM Is Alive
It’s hard to kill the dreams of some 1.8 million young Americans. Actually, it’s impossible. After the failed cloture vote on moving forward with the National Defense Authorization Act, which also meant that the DREAM Act would die as an Read More …
Georgia Makes Plans to Ban Undocumented Students from Higher Education
On the heels of South Carolina, some colleges in Georgia are considering a proposal to ban undocumented students from higher education. North Carolina also tried this in community colleges last year, realized it was losing money and repealed the ban. Read More …
Who Will Democrats Throw Under the Bus?
Pro-choice, LGBTQ, and immigrant rights advocates all have their eyes set on Congress for today’s vote on S. 3455, the Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011. It turns out that they all have something on the agenda, Read More …