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May 15th, 2008
Idaho Student Says Teacher Tossed His Mexican Flag In Trash
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May 15th, 2008
Commentary: The Ugly Mexican-American Immigration Debate
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May 8th, 2008
Hate Radio’s Bigotry Towards Hispanics
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Debunking Myths That Feed Hate
March 25th, 2008
Kudos to MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) for launching http://www.truthinimmigration.org/Home.aspx this week. The new site tackles the many myths, exaggerations, false "facts," and just plain lies which are regular features of the immigration debate. For anyone concerned about arriving at real solutions to immigration, this website is an important tool to fight the damage that hate groups, and the networks that hand them a microphone, inflict on any attempt for rational debate on this challenging issue. For more information on how hate groups are infecting the debate with code words of hate, watch this video of Stacy Burdett of the Anti-Defamation League.
Read on for more information about http://www.truthinimmigration.org/...
New Web site monitors immigration myths
By Eunice Moscoso |
March 21, 2008
Cox News
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) on Thursday launched a Web site which it said would expose myths and inaccuracies about immigration.
Peter Zamora, the group's regional counsel in Washington, said that conservative talk shows on television and the radio are putting falsehoods on the air every day that demonize immigrants.
Such "hate speech" has led to an increase in crimes against Hispanics and makes it impossible to have a rational policy discussion on immigration reform, MALDEF officials said, in a conference call with reporters.
Zamora said the site - http://www.truthinimmigration.org/ - will have new postings three to five times a week about statements in the media, on Capitol Hill, and in political campaigns.
Last month, the National Council of La Raza and other Hispanic groups launched "We Can Stop the Hate," a campaign and Web site.
NCLR said that the nation's three top cable news networks - CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC - regularly invite anti-immigrant extremists to their shows and do not identify the groups they are with or the fact that some are affiliated with white supremacist organizations or vigilante groups.