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  • New Handbook on Diaspora Engagement Provides Road Map for Leveraging the Role of Immigrants in Development Efforts Worldwide - Law Professor Blogs Network (Saturday, 28 April) - Beyond the more than $400 billion in remittances transferred in 2010, diaspora members fulfill a key development role in their countries of origin – as major direct investors in critical and emerging industries, generous philanthropists and first movers in the......
  • Rubio Reaches Out to Democrats and Activists for DREAM Act - Law Professor Blogs Network (Friday, 27 April) - Republican Senator Marco Rubio is reaching out to Democrats, Dream Act leaders, and immigrant rights groups in his effort to push a nonimmigrant visa version of the DREAM Act. Can he gain traction on this effort during a presidential campaign......
  • This Week in Civil Liberties (4/27/2012) - ACLU (Friday, 27 April) - What law threatens the Occupy movement’s and other activists’ right to protest?What bill recently passed by the House did the President threaten to veto because of its privacy problems?Which court heard arguments this week regarding Arizona’s anti-immigrant bill, S.B. 1070?In which state does U.S. citizen and ACLU plaintiff Jim Shee...
  • Racial Justice and LGBT Equality – Moving Beyond the Politics of "Divide and Conquer" - ACLU (Friday, 27 April) - It was recently revealed in internal strategy memos from the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage that the organization hoped to pit racial and ethnic minorities against the LGBT community as a way to defeat and rollback gay rights advances, specifically marriage for same-sex couples. The memos included the following: The...
  • Civil Liberties in the Digital Age: Weekly Highlights (4/27/2012) - ACLU (Friday, 27 April) - In the digital age that we live in today, we are constantly exposing our personal information online. From using cell phones and GPS devices to online shopping and sending e-mail, the things we do and say online leave behind ever-growing trails of personal information. The ACLU believes that Americans shouldn’t...
  • Women in Combat: The Marines Take An Important First Step, But More Is Needed to Ensure Full Equality. - ACLU (Friday, 27 April) - Less than three months after the Pentagon announced that it was loosening the rules that bar women from being assigned to ground combat units, the Marine Corps followed suit, taking important steps to open up previously restricted opportunities to women. Last week, the Marines announced that women volunteers would be...
  • Is There Any Doubt? SB 1070 is about Racial Profiling - Law Professor Blogs Network (Friday, 27 April) - In spite of the U.S. government's nonracial strategy against SB 1070 and attempts by Justice Roberts and Scalia to avoid the issue at oral argument this week, Arizona's law is all about racial profiling. My views on Huffington Post: In......
  • From the Bookshelves: Pineros: Latino Labor and the Changing Face of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest by Brinda Sarathy - Law Professor Blogs Network (Friday, 27 April) - Pineros: Latino Labor and the Changing Face of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Presentation by Brinda Sarathy Abstract: Although the exploitation of Latino workers in many industries is well known, pineros -- Latino forest workers -- toil largely in obscurity.......
  • ICE v. King of Bollywood? Bollywood Movie Star Detained by La Migra - Law Professor Blogs Network (Friday, 27 April) - Earlier this month, Indian movie star Shah Rukh Khan, a/k/a the King of Bollywood, was detained and held for over two hours by U.S. immigration officials. He arrived in New York from India by private jet to address Yale students......
  • Focus on Border Agent Brutality - Law Professor Blogs Network (Friday, 27 April) - From Jennifer Allen: National Attention to Border Agents Brutality & the Need to Bring Justice Home If you missed the "Crossing the Line" program on PBS' Need to Know on Friday, you can still view it on their website. It......