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Will Sen. Scott Brown Meet With Massachusetts Immigrant Youth Before April 17?

by: kyledeb

Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 08:28:52 AM EST

Originally posted on Citizen Orange.

In case you missed it, the Associated Press recently covered our request for a meeting with Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.). We are asking Sen. Brown to meet with us before April 17.

Harvard College Act on a Dream has been trying to meet with Sen. Brown since he was first elected at the beginning of the semester. We were told that his office was a mess the first couple of months, but we were finally asked to fax our meeting request to his office. We sent the fax on March 5, 2010.

After not getting a commitment to a meeting for over a month, we were forced to take our meeting request public. We joined forces with the Student Immigrant Movement to set up an online petition which already has over 100 signatures (please sign it if you haven't done so, yet). The online petition resulted in coverage from the AP, and now our request is all over the web. We were happy to hear through the AP that his office has received our meeting request and will shortly ask for more information from us.

Still, it's going to take a lot more than an AP article and a hundred petition signatures to secure a meeting with Brown. Here are some things you can do to help:

SIGN the petition at change.org and ask all of your friends and family to do the same, especially if they are Massachusetts residents.
CALL Brown's D.C. office (202-224-4543) and his local office (617-565-3170) to ask whether or not Brown will meet with us before April 17.
JOIN the Facebook group and ask your Facebook friends to do the same
HELP us fight any misinformation or nativism that you see online regarding our meeting request.

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Who's Illegal Now?: Obama's Aunt Disclosure May Be Illegal

by: kyledeb

Sat Nov 01, 2008 at 21:00:22 PM EST

The way the mainstream "progressive" netroots have handled the story of Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango is a complete embarrassment. I wrote about it earlier this morning. First, I was told several times by commenters on Daily Kos that "this is a non-story". Wrong. It has been on the front page of memeorandum all day. If you have turned on your TV, it has been blaring all over the 24-hour cable news networks.

The silence is deafening on the front pages of major "progressive" blogs like Daily Kos and Firedoglake. My only conclusion can be that they agree that this is a non-story. It's to be expected from blogs that exist to elect "more and better Democrats." If it helps Democrats to be silent on one of the most important social justice issues of our time, U.S. migration policy, you can expect that the "progressive" blogs will follow. It's to be expected from those that have called migration a "pet issue."

The few that have covered the story, like, Matt Stoller of Open Left, Digby, and Josh Marshall and Zachary Roth of Talking Points Memo, have completely ceded the U.S. migration debate to nativists. The debate over this story has devolved into one of Republican nativism and Democrats and their allies either describing this as smear or running as far away from this as they can. If having an unauthorized migrant relative is a smear, than smear me too.

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Obama's Aunt Is "Illegal"

by: kyledeb

Sat Nov 01, 2008 at 11:10:37 AM EST

Originally posted on Citizen Orange.

Two days ago, on October 30, the London Times reported that Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Onyango, was living in public housing in Boston. This Saturday morning, the Associated Press reported that Onyango is an unauthorized migrant.

Nativist bloggers are already foaming at the mouth. Michelle Malkin has highlighted a typical nativist comment, capital letters and all:

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