Category Immigrant rights

In a defeat for President Bush, Republican congressional leaders said Tuesday that broad immigration legislation is all but doomed for the year, a victim of election-year concerns in the House and conservatives’ implacable opposition to citizenship for millions of illegal…

Via Perspective in Scotland, who comments on these dimbulb right wingers, “Might want to run a spellcheck on your placards, dumbass.” They want everyone to speak English yet have problems with basic spelling themselves?

The civil rights movement did not tone itself down to accommodate the racists. On the contraryâ┚¬â€it grew in scope and militancy. The continued struggles of the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, the Deacons for Defense, and the emerging Black liberation movement…

Senate Republicans were divided Thursday voting on the immigration bill — 23 voted for and 32 voted against it. Until now, the GOP has been united between the corporate wing and the social conservatives, said Ross K. Baker, a Rutgers…