intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean forced millions of people to leave their homes to migrate to the United States. The film examines how- New York Daily News columnist.
The film is based on a book by Juan González, Democracy Now! co-host, New York Times sic columnist. Immigrants haven’t even been in this country.ĪMY GOODMAN: Well, at this time of this heated and divisive debate over immigration, we turn to a new documentary out this week: Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America. And the Republicans don’t understand-ĪNN COULTER: What did we-can I just say, what have we done to the immigrants? We owe black people something we have a legacy of slavery. ROBERT REICH: See, this is essentially the problem. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Immigrant rights are not civil rights?ĪNN COULTER: No, I think civil rights are for blacks. Host George Stephanopoulos asked Coulter about her claim. Meanwhile, appearing Sunday on ABC’s This Week, conservative pundit Ann Coulter argued immigrant rights should not be considered civil rights. Obama made news again Friday when the White House said a new federal policy that grants some young immigrants temporary legal status to stay in the country will not make them eligible for health insurance under the new healthcare law. Both President Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney answered tough questions about immigration and deportation when they appeared on the Spanish-language network Univision last week. This comes at a time when immigration has become a key issue in the 2012 presidential race.
The organization called on the Federal Communications Commission to study the impacts of hate speech in the media.
AMY GOODMAN: A new report by the National Hispanic Media Coalition has found media portrayals of Latinos and immigrants are fueling rampant negative stereotypes among the general population.
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