The fight over a proposed Islamic community center in Murfessboro, Tennessee, has brought out some of the worst offenders in the conspiracy-minded Islamophobic right, including Frank Gaffney, who testified in a court proceeding that the center-builders were part of a conspiracy to institute Taliban-style Islamic law in the United States. That was after a potential […]
Adam Serwer
Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also blogs at Jack and Jill Politics and has written for The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Root, and the Daily News. Follow @adamserwer
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The Enforcement Paradox
With their failure to enact immigration reform, Democrats risk turning their “emerging majority” into a permanent swing vote.
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A Clarification.
Since a couple of people have e-mailed me about Michael Barone‘s recent phoned in column, I feel obligated to respond. It’s pretty clear that Democrats are less enthusiastic about voting this year than Republicans. The latest evidence comes from Gallup, which reports that Republicans’ 3 percent edge in congressional voting among registered voters increases to […]
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Whitman Losing Latinos Over Nanny Story?
California Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman, who campaigned on wanting to crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants but is now facing allegations that she knowingly hired an undocumented woman, Nicandra DÃaz Santillán to clean her house and watch her kids, is faltering in her campaign for governor, according to Nate Silver: Jerry Brown […]
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Napolitano Confirms No Secure Communities Opt-Out.
At a press conference intended to tout ICE and Homeland Security’s new numbers showing a record number of deportations, particularly those of criminal aliens, Secretary Janet Napolitano confirmed allegations first reported by the Washington Post that local jurisdictions cannot actually “opt-out” of the Secure Communities program. ICE previously issued a letter suggesting opt-out was possible, […]
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Conservatives Redefine the Abuse of Power
The GOP remains fixated on the alleged tyranny of a democratically elected president and Congress pursuing a publicly predetermined domestic agenda.
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More Record Deportation Numbers.
I’m going to have more later on Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apparently confirming that local jurisdictions can’t opt out of the Secure Communities program; for now I just want to note the numbers DHS and ICE touted at today’s press conference: In fiscal year 2010, ICE set a record for overall removals of illegal […]
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Offensive Content At The White House.
In his Rolling Stone interview, President Barack Obama said he listened to Jay-Z and Lil’ Wayne. Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture, complains that in doing so, the president is reinforcing “a hip-hop culture that is ignorant, misogynistic, casually criminal and often violent.” […]
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Record Number Of Migrant Deaths In Arizona.
Following up on this grim ACLU pie chart on migrant deaths, here’s a report from NPR showing a record number of migrant deaths in the past year in Arizona despite the fact that both illegal immigration and the population of illegal immigrants in the U.S. have decreased: Authorities have discovered 252 bodies in the Arizona […]
