Immigrants' Rights Forces Flexing Their Muscles

by: Mike Lux

Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 11:07

There is a very important post by Howie Klein here that talks about how immigrants' rights organizers of all kinds- in the 501c3 non-partisan category, and on the more partisan side- are playing a huge role in the Lipinski race. It's great to see this happening. We are not going to see immigration reform in this country absent a really tough, muscular, aggressive political strategy by immigrants' rights organizers, and we are starting to see evidence of those strategies around the country. Chicago is ground zero for that, being the home of Rahm Emanuel, who has been leading the "spooked and scared Democrats" on this issue. The Lipinski primary is huge, as he has been on the wrong side of this issue despite having a lot of immigrants in his district. If Pera wins or even comes close to beating the Lipinski machine, that would be a sign the immigrants' rights movement, in combination with their allies in the blogosphere, has really come of age.

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Immigrants' Rights Forces Flexing Their Muscles | 1 comments

If Rahm Emanual lost a primary to an immigrant rights guy, (0.00 / 0)

(or really, a member of any one of the groups of people that he's thrown under the bus in pursuit of his cowardly political strategies... an American soldier who had his legs blown off in early 2008 would do just as well), I might start to believe in justice again.

I won't be holding my breath, of course.

by: texas dem @ Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 15:09:25 PM CST

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Immigrants' Rights Forces Flexing Their Muscles

by: Mike Lux

Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 11:07