Immigration

Jorge Ramos: ‘Immigration reform is in the hands of John Boehner’

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

RamosJorge Ramos, the widely influential anchor for Univision who has been described as the “Walter Cronkite of Hispanic media,” told Greg Sargent in an interview that “Like it or not, the Hispanic media perceives that approving or
rejecting immigration reform is in the hands of John Boehner. When you
listen to local radio stations and even national media, most of us are
concentrated on John Boehner. We don’t even have a problem pronouncing
his name.” For the Hispanic media, it's all about John Boehner:

Ramos left little doubt that Boehner and fellow House Republicans
will get absolutely crucified by the Hispanic media if Republicans fail
to support comprehensive reform.

The views of Ramos and others in the Hispanic media are mostly overlooked inside the Beltway.

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[R]ight now, Ramos says, the bulk of the coverage in Hispanic media
strongly suggests it will be hard for Republicans to avoid most or all
the blame if it fails.

“In the end, you just have to follow Hispanic media,” Ramos says.
“The question is, who is responsible for failure? So far, the answer is
Republicans.”

President Obama Spanish-language television interviews: ‘En Vivo desde la Casa Blanca’

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

For the first time ever, the White House invited four local
Spanish-language television anchors to participate in the “Live from the
White House” series, or in this case “En Vivo desde la Casa Blanca.” President Obama sat down for interviews with the four Spanish-language television stations on Tuesday. From the White House blog, Local Spanish Language Television Reporters Attend "Live from the White House" Series:

During this full day of behind-the-scenes and special
access, each reporter had the opportunity to interview President Barack
Obama. “Live from the White House” is an initiative which provides
reporters outside of the Beltway a unique opportunity to cover the
President and the Administration.

Spanish language television anchors from Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles
and New Jersey/New York City were given the opportunity to broadcast
Tuesday from a special location on the South Lawn and attended briefings
with some of the President’s top advisers on issues that are important
to their Latino audiences like healthcare and immigration reform.

Heal It Up

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By Tom Prezelski

Reposted from Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

J-NapYesterdays news is that Former Governor Janet Napolitano will be resigning as Secretary of Homeland Security to accept a a position as President of the University of California System.

I had a friendly working relationship with Janet when I was in the
legislature, so it would naturally follow that I have mixed feelings
about her tenure in Homeland Security. On the one hand, she made some important steps
to clean up an unmanageable mess of an organization. On the other, it
does not seem like enough. In her defense, however, the gnashing of
teeth and rending of garments that occurred every time she made a modest move
toward reasonableness was a reminder of what she was up against. Even
her order to the Border Patrol to exercise a modicum of common sense and
discretion by focusing their efforts on nabbing traficantes rather than chasing desperate campesinos met with resistance from rank and file agents and demagogues in Congress, and there was scant little vocal public support for such restraint to balance out the vitriol.

Boehner & the White Man’s Party Prepare to Kill Immigration Reform

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Partyofnoby Pamela Powers Hannley

Knuckle-dragging Republicans in the US House of Representatives have said that they will NOT– that is NOT with capital letters– pass an immigration “reform” bill that includes a path to citizenship for 12 million immigrants living in the US.

After all, the Republican Party’s corporate masters are making big bucks exploiting and imprisoning undocumented workers; I guess their motto is: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” For big business, immigration ain’t broke (except that they would like easier access to  cheap, skilled labor from India).

The US Senate’s much-celebrated bill did have a path to citizen (plus lots of other stuff the Democrats agreed to in order to get a handful of Republicans to vote for it.)

In the spirit of full disclosure, I didn’t like the US Senate’s version of Immigration Reform for multiple reasons. Read them and more about the White Man's Party after the jump.