http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5QVDMdW4rw As the Democratic National Convention continues in Denver, Democrats are working on a strategy to capture the votes of Latinos, one of this year’s most important electoral demographics. Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network (NDN), noted in a 2007 op-ed that the American people have changed a great deal. In recent decades, [...]
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Dems Discuss Importance of Latino Vote, Immigration Policy at Convention
August 28, 2008 – 8:48 am
Immigrant’s Death Leads to Calls for Detention Center Reform
August 20, 2008 – 12:20 pm
Hiu Lui Ng, a 34-year-old Chinese immigrant who had lived in the U.S. for his entire adult life, died of cancer in a Rhode Island detention center on August 6. When Ng, who had been healthy when arrested a year ago, began losing weight and complaining of excruciating pain in April, detention officials accused him [...]
