[VIDEO] Immortal Technique Talks Politics
Voto Latino caught up with the rapper at South by Southwest. Here’s what he had to say about voting, the DREAM Act and immigration policy.
Voto Latino caught up with the rapper at South by Southwest. Here’s what he had to say about voting, the DREAM Act and immigration policy.
The Dream Act is a piece of legislation that was proposed this year and despite its failure to be approved, its supporters will not accept NO for the answer.
According to the Huffington Post:
A letter signed by 22 Senate Democrats asks President Barack Obama to use his executive authority to prevent deportation of young people who would have benefited from the DREAM Act, a bill thatfailed in the upper chamber last year. The legislation would have allowed undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as children to stay, provided they kept a clean record and either enrolled in college or joined the military.
Find out how these politicians are trying to stop deporting undocumented students…
A judge on Thursday blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona’s new immigration law from taking effect, handing a major legal victory to opponents of the legislation.
The law will still take effect Thursday, but without many of the provisions that angered opponents — including sections that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws. The judge also put on hold a part of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton put those sections on hold until the courts resolve the issues.
Opponents say the law will lead to racial profiling and is trumped by federal immigration law.
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I’m no exception when I say I’m praying about the situation in Arizona this week. But I’m a little different in that I’m not usually one to pray. I’m not religious; I’m awed by and grateful for the universe, and always conscious that as humans we’re not capable of comprehending all of reality, but I don’t think anyone’s listening. No big dude in the sky.
But a prayer doesn’t have to be about God. It can be a simple, blind, and occasionally desperate act of hope. Hope that among those things we don’t fully understand in the universe, there is something called Justice that is real, and powerful, and will win out in the end.
At this point, the people have spoken, the cards are all on the table, and all we can really do is pray that what’s slated to happen won’t come to be. I’ve been focusing in on the people I met in Arizona on my recent visit and praying for them individually. Praying that the shy 15-year-old kid who told me he gets good grades but probably can’t go to college won’t be suddenly sent away to a country he’s never known. Praying for the brave people who, when I arrived at the Arizona State Capitol, had been keeping vigil outside in the blazing heat for 50 days. Praying that the palpable tension I felt everywhere in the air there won’t devolve into untamed violence.
This is a situation where the nature of justice is so obvious, where truth is just begging to be heard; where innocent people’s lives are hanging in a shaky balance that can only be righted if our nation takes a major stand for tolerance. I’m not confident the right thing will happen, because I don’t believe there’s anyone checking in. But I’m going to pray.
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