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Perry campaign targeted by immigration enforcement activists

By | 09.30.11 | 1:09 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

That in-state tuition law that sailed through the Texas Legislature and across the governor’s desk 10 years ago continues haunting Rick Perry’s presidential campaign in strange new ways, most recently with a hardline anti-illegal immigration group protesting outside a Perry fundraiser, and new complaints about social media censorship from the More…

Illegal immigration protests to trail Perry’s campaign stops nationwide

By | 09.29.11 | 12:30 pm

That in-state tuition law that sailed through the Texas Legislature and across the governor’s desk 10 years ago continues haunting Rick Perry’s presidential campaign in strange new ways, most recently with a hardline anti-illegal immigration group protesting outside a Perry fundraiser, and new complaints about social media censorship from the More…

More Claims of Voter Fraud by Illegal Immigrants

By | 11.01.10 | 6:03 pm

With midterms a day away and early voting already underway in a number of states, conservatives and anti-illegal immigration groups are claiming that large numbers of undocumented immigrants are attempting to vote in an effort to sway election results toward Democrats. Groups like the pro-enforcement Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, More…

ALIPAC Takes Credit for States Considering Immigration Legislation

By | 08.18.10 | 2:22 pm

The Justice Department sued Arizona for taking immigration enforcement into its own hands through with SB 1070, but that hasn’t seemed to deter other states from considering similar legislation. Americans for Legal Immigration political action committee, or ALIPAC, reported today that 22 states are considering Arizona-style immigration legislation, and they More…

Tea Party Movement to Rally Against ‘Amnesty’

By | 04.14.10 | 2:42 pm

The Tea Party movement is slowly starting to shift its focus to illegal immigration, an issue that’s beginning to see a lot of attention, with rallies during the next few days aimed at stopping amnesty. As New American Media reported in February, some Tea Partiers are quick to More…

Swine Flu May Come From Corporate Pig Poop

By | 04.28.09 | 12:23 pm

Although the mainstream media in the United States hasn’t picked up on it, at least one Mexican newspaper and some U.S. bloggers are reporting that swine flu may have originated from mounds of porcine fecal matter at the Mexican subsidiary of U.S.-based Smithfield Foods — the world’s largest pork packer More…