Immigrants and Politics Blog

[KR: The Movement Vision Lab, a project at the Center for Community Change, sponsored an online video contest on the immigration issue and received many submissions. Recently they awarded two top prizes, one for a video on compassion at the US-Mexico border in Arizona, and the other for a spoof on the outdated system of naturalization at the CIS]

Submissions
http://www.youtube.com/video_response_view_all?v=wweD5J2-R0k

Winners
http://www.movementvisionlab.org/blog/announcing-the-results/view

[KR: After a hiatus for the summer, the Immigrants and Politics Blog is back. The first post is one sent by Sylvia Manzano about Rudy Guiliani’s clarifications about his stance on immigration. More postings below…]

Rudy: Illegal immigration not a crime
By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press
Fri Sep 7, 2007

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said illegal immigration is not a crime, prompting rival Mitt Romney to accuse him of not taking the problem seriously.

The two have clashed for weeks over illegal immigration, an issue that inflames GOP conservatives who influence primary elections. The irony is that both candidates have in the past taken more liberal stands on the issue.

“It’s not a crime,” Giuliani said Friday. “I know that’s very hard for people to understand, but it’s not a federal crime.”

Giuliani’s comments came in an interview with CNN Headline News and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck.

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[Story sent by Chris Zepeda on power struggles within the Minuteman Project; apparently in-fighting is not new to the minutemen, as is evidenced in this other blog entry]

Ousted Minuteman leader seeks court remedy
Illegal immigration foe Jim Gilchrist of Aliso Viejo
says he was railroaded. Other group members say he’s
to blame.

By Jennifer Delson
LA Times
February 27, 2007

A behind-the-scenes power struggle over control of the
Minuteman Project spilled into an Orange County
courtroom Monday with ousted co-founder Jim Gilchrist
asking a judge to give him back control of the citizen
border patrol group.

Superior Court Judge Randell L. Wilkinson said he
would issue a ruling within a few days.
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