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Slovenia was a key transit point during the European refugee crisis with about half a million passing through in 2015.The SDS party of veteran right-wing leader Janez Jansa is leading in Slovenia's parliamentary election, according to an exit poll published after voting ended on Sunday. The exit poll for public television gave Jansa's SDS 24.4 percent with the "anti-system" party of comedian-turned-politician Marjan Sarec coming second on 12.6 percent. If confirmed in official results, the results mean a coalition government likely will have to be formed. Preliminary results will be issued by the State Election Commission later on Sunday. Jansa...

A woman was left covered in blood after she was injured in the latest violent anti-immigrant protests in South Africa. So far six people are believed to have been killed in the violent protests which started two weeks ago in Durban, a key port on South Africa's Indian Ocean coast, spreading to Johannesburg. In the latest show of violence around 200 protesters, shouting that they wanted immigrants to leave the country, pelted passing vehicles and the police with rocks.

At a time when fear-mongering rhetoric against unaccompanied minors crossing our borders has risen to a deafening roar, the community conversation should reject inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric and instead focus on concrete responses.

Sen. Marco Rubio scolded Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign over a Spanish-language radio ad that accuses rival Mitt Romney of being “anti-immigrant.” “This kind of language is more than just unfortunate. It’s inaccurate, inflammatory, and doesn’t belong in this campaign,” Rubio told The Miami Herald when asked about the ad. (snip) By mid-day, Gingrich’s campaign said it would pull the radio ad out of “respect for the senator’s wishes.” About the same time, former Sen. Mel Martinez and a group of Hispanic leaders aligned with Romney in issuing a letter demanding Gingrich remove the ad.

President Barack Obama, addressing a tribal nations conference at the White House last week, announded that the U.S. government is now supporting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, which includes a sweeping declaration that "indigenous peoples" have a right to lands and resources they traditionally occupied or "otherwise used." "Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired," says the U.N. resolution. The Bush administration had declined to support the resolution. At the White House Tribal Nations Conference, Obama reminded the group that...

The clip begins with Machete delivering a threatening message to Arizona, which recently cracked down on illegal immigrants. The script, leaked to Alex Jones, a right-wing radio talk show host, seemed to confirm conservatives' worst fears that the film... Full Article at The Australian

<p>President George W. Bush told a group of Texas reporters Friday that he regretted immigration policies were not reformed while he was in office.</p> <p>"I'm very disappointed that it didn't pass," he said in an interview with correspondents from his home state. "I'm very worried about the message that said, 'Republicans are anti-immigrant.'"</p>

NEW YORK -- Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling nationwide increases in the number of hate groups and the number of hate crimes targeting Latinos, according to a watchdog group. The Southern Poverty Law Center, in a report being released today titled "The Year in Hate," said it counted 888 hate groups in its latest tally, up from 844 in 2006 and 602 in 2000. The most prominent of the organizations added to the list, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, vehemently rejected the "hate group" label and questioned the law center's motives. FAIR said the center was using smear...

Extreme-right party gains shock prime minister Associated Press in Brussels Monday October 9, 2006 The Guardian (UK) The Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, said he had work to do to lure voters back to his national coalition after local elections produced large gains for the extreme-right party Flemish Interest and dealt a blow to his re-election prospects next year. Mr Verhofstadt's Liberal Democrats lost votes mostly at the expense of Flemish Interest and the Christian Democrats. The extreme-right party, which ran on an anti-immigrant platform, has been kept in opposition in Antwerp by an unlikely rainbow coalition whose only common...

When is a loss really a win? It's a common practice, trying to spin a political defeat into a victory. But in the case of the race to fill Randy "Duke" Cunningham's seat in the House of Representatives, the silver lining might not be that hard to find. snip NOW PAC organizers worked on the Busby campaign, reaching out to voters across the county. The NOW PAC put Hays in San Diego prior to the April 11 Special Election, and sent her and another organizer Monely Soltani there again in late May to work on the run-off vote, held concurrently...

I have never posted a vanity before. I have tried to swallow the bitter pill. I am perplexed by the debate about general election choices. Time to get ACTIVE; BEYOND the General Elections. No choices between Dems and RINO's. Time to MARCH TO THE PRIMARIES.. march in numbers NEVER SEEN BEFORE..... Here is my call..... I am sick and tired of being called names. I am done having the people charged with the HONOR of representing MY voice in MY country SLIT my throat for their personal gain. Meanwhile they invade the money I earn to seek the American Dream....

Thu Aug 4, 5:20 PM ET Picketers are expected to gather in Dearborn to protest a cartoon that was published in the Sunday, June 19, edition of the Dearborn Press & Guide. The picket is scheduled to take place at 4 p.m. Thursday outside the newspaper's offices on Park Street, according to Local 4 reports. The cartoon has touched off a firestorm from ethnic groups across metro Detroit who characterized it as derogatory and incredibly divisive, the station reported. "We are shocked that any newspaper, let alone one that serves a community as diverse as the one served by the...

Last Updated: Tuesday, 17 May, 2005, 15:49 GMT 16:49 UK   German far right unites for polls Germany is gearing up for a key election on Sunday in the mainly industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia. But the BBC's Tristana Moore in Berlin reports that far-right parties have their sights on a bigger goal - they are joining forces for next year's federal elections. Police blocked a neo-Nazi march in Berlin on VE Day The activities of neo-Nazis were very much in the spotlight on 8 May as Europe marked the 60th anniversary of the Allies' victory in World War...

Republicans who want to slow immigration to the United States and crack down on illegal immigrants believe they are gaining political strength and public backing, which may pose a problem next year for President Bush. Bush has already signaled his intention to push a major proposal to allow some of the estimated 8 million to 10 million illegal immigrants in the country to gain legal work visas for up to six years as part of a "guest worker" program. But he may face growing anti-immigrant sentiment, not only his own party but in the country at large, several opponents claimed....

AUSTIN-- Mexican President Vicente Fox is to cap off a tour of the U.S. Southwest here today by promoting cross-border business ties while striving to kickstart his legislative priority: giving millions of Mexicans the opportunity to legally work in the United States.This is Fox's first visit to Texas as president.Previously, two trips were canceled, one in protest of the execution of a Mexican citizen convicted of killing a Dallas police officer and another in light of mounting tension over the dispute about Mexico's water debt to the United States.Today, he's to meet with political and business leaders, students at the...

In a "Letter to the Editor," October 30, Webb County Republican Chairman Javier Mendoza was accused by a former classmate of making anti-immigrant statements in a college government class that he took in 1998. Leslie Smith, no address given, in an email to the Laredo Morning Times, said that Smith had called Mexican immigrants "stupid and dirty." Mendoza replied to Smith's allegation in an October 31 "Letter to the Editor." Mendoza said: "It is sad that Smith has no standards and will attack my integrity. I have no clue where this person got the idea that I would call immigrants...