SACRAMENTO .- The newly Assemblyman Hesperia and founder of the Minuteman Tim Donnelly failed yesterday in its attempt to repeal the law AB540, which allows undocumented students to pay the same tuition university that legal residents and citizens, even if exempted in part to members of the armed forces, their spouses and children.
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Posted by: Mariana Verdin
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Asian Americans Aim for "Ya es Hora" Citizenship Push
The campaign - which starts next week with a workshop in the San Gabriel Valley's sizable Chinese and Vietnamese communities - is modeled after the "Ya es hora" citizenship campaign launched by a close-knit partnership between community groups, Spanish-language media giant Univision and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
That program, which consists of in-person workshops broadcast on television, has helped nearly 40,000 people fill out their naturalization applications and nearly 100,000 get their citizenship questions answered via a bilingual hotline since 2007.
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Posted by Jessica Damian
That program, which consists of in-person workshops broadcast on television, has helped nearly 40,000 people fill out their naturalization applications and nearly 100,000 get their citizenship questions answered via a bilingual hotline since 2007.
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Commentary: Numbers Don't Bode Well for California Republicans
It's not a stretch to say that the Republican Party, which once dominated California politics and was very competitive into the 1990s, has devolved into a party of rapidly aging white people, and as they disappear, its fortunes may sink further.
The party's stridency on taxes, illegal immigration, abortion and other hot-button issues alienated both white moderates – most noticeably in the suburbs – and the surging numbers of Latino and Asian voters.
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Posted by Jessica Damian
The party's stridency on taxes, illegal immigration, abortion and other hot-button issues alienated both white moderates – most noticeably in the suburbs – and the surging numbers of Latino and Asian voters.
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Posted by Jessica Damian
Sacramento Redistricting Panel Will Get Latino Representation
A glitch became apparent in Sacramento's new citizens advisory committee on redistricting, but the City Council moved quickly Tuesday evening to try to fix it.
Once the mayor and each council member picked one member, and four others were nominated through the usual committee process, it turned out that there was not a single Latino on the panel.
Several Latino political and civic activists showed up at Tuesday's meeting to point that out -- and to urge the council to stand behind its pledge to have a committee that reflects Sacramento's diversity.
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Posted by Jessica Damian
Once the mayor and each council member picked one member, and four others were nominated through the usual committee process, it turned out that there was not a single Latino on the panel.
Several Latino political and civic activists showed up at Tuesday's meeting to point that out -- and to urge the council to stand behind its pledge to have a committee that reflects Sacramento's diversity.
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Posted by Jessica Damian
Should California Make it Easier for Farmworkers to Organize Unions?
The Legislature is considering Senate Bill 104, which would create an "alternative procedure" known as "card check" for farmworkers to decide whether or not to unionize - having a majority of employees fill out cards authorizing a union to represent them as an alternative to the current secret-ballot election.
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