Original Post at The Sanctuary.

I'm here in San Diego where Barack Obama just spoke at the annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) conference.  NCLR flew out me here and provided with me accommodations at the luxurious San Diego Marriot Hotel & Marina.  I was given the opportunity after I helped publicize NCLR's latest We Can Stop the Hate video using Digg and StumbleUpon, among other new media tools. 

By a wide margen Moezeldin Elmostafa, a Sudanese immigrant with a green card was chosen the 2008 Readers Digest Hero of the Year.

You remember the 2006 Duke University Lacrosse team case. The Players were cleared, DA Nifong got disbarred and one of the key witnesses was Taxicab driver Moezeldin Elmostafa, a Sudanese immigrant with a green card.  Even when faced with the intimidation of criminal charges, Moezeldin refused to be intimidated by the police and testified in favor of the Duke students.

The news article [US home prices drop 11.4 pct. in January] talks about "A widely watched index of U.S. home prices fell 11.4 percent in January, its steepest drop since data for the indicator was first collected in 1987.

Following is a link to an interesting idea that may help fix the problems of housing market

Here is a gist of the argument:

It seems that Senator McCain isn't legally allowed to be the President(link: He's not a natural born United States Citizen.

That's right: Saint McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936. I wonder how the freepers will like their blue-eyed imigrent President now?

Rudy got booed in the first ten minutes.  This might be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.  Mitt and Rudy slapping at each other over the issue of sanctuary cities and mansions.  The crowd finally boos Rudy when he won’t STFU and let the debate continue.  He repeats the same line about Romney over three times in two minutes.  Now The Actor gets into the act.  He probably had his best day of the campaign so far today with the news on Rudy’s taxing the public  for his sexy-time.  We’ll see if it wakes him up for the debate.  So far it doesn’t sound like it.

A Friday Toast

The one big question at the last presidential debate was all about immigrants getting a license in New York.

Senator Clinton believes that it is a way to draw people out of the shadows.   And she is right.   When we allow people to remain hidden they become afraid to access services and by doing this we place whole communities into jeopardy...

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According to an article in today's USA Today.  Until recently, undocumented immigrants, had been relatively quiet. Now they are increasingly standing up to be heard. Work stoppages and boycotts are now being used to show the impact of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
Many immigrants  figure that the risk of speaking out is outweighed by fears they will lose their jobs or even be deported if they don't make their case to the public, according to the article.
The Center for Immigration Studies, which wants less immigration to the U.S.,  blames this on the disappointment caused  when immigration reform fell apart in June.