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Senator Rubio tells Tampa audience recent Obama administration scandals are due to political culture listen
05/20/13 Naveen SultanWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Marco Rubio, Republican Party, Republican Party of Hillsborough County, immigration, Benghazi, IRS, media
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) spoke in Tampa on Saturday, but instead of focusing on immigration reform he railed against the recent IRS, AP and Benghazi scandals. At the Hillsborough County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner Rubio said he is concerned about excessive government. He said the Obama administration’s criticism of the GOP has created a culture of politics that is responsible for these scandals.
Be the first to comment“When you go around demonizing your opponents, when you go around telling p...
Immigration reform targeted during Ybor City May Day celebration listen
05/02/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: immigration, AFL-CIO, May Day, International Workers' Day
Immigration reform could become a reality now that some United States Senators have suggested ideas that would provide a pathway to citizenship for 11 million people. Activists made that their focus Wednesday during a May Day protest in Ybor City’s Centennial Park. The ACLU of Florida’s Paola Everett said the legislation is a start, but more needs to be done.
Be the first to comment"We really need to make sure that this immigration reform includes fair access to education. That it allows people to go back to ...
Lakeland immigration reform advocates side with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio listen
05/01/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Marco Rubio, Dennis Ross, immigration, immigration reform
Community activists are pushing immigration reform for the 11 million undocumented people in the country. During a Republican fundraiser in Lakeland Wednesday, more than a dozen people waved signs calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to support a pathway to citizenship measure introduced in the Senate by Marco Rubio, who was a speaker at the luncheon.
Rubio and 7 of his colleagues in the Senate have formed what people are calling the Gang o...
Be the first to commentInter-faith group calls on Washington lawmakers to support pathway to citizenship listen
04/29/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: immigration, PICO United Florida, Dennis Ross, citizenship
An inter-faith group is pushing for federal legislation that would create a pathway to citizenship. PICO United Florida is kicking off a month-long campaign Monday to garner support from Florida members of Congress including Lakeland Republican Dennis Ross.
The group plans to hold prayer vigils in front of his office every weekday from 3 p.m. - 7 p.m. through the first week of May.
Nanci Palacios is a spokesperson for PICO United Florida.
Be the first to commentTampa Dream Defenders ask Tampa City Council to support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants listen
04/18/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Tampa Dream Defenders, Tampa City Council, immigration, deportations
Undocumented immigrants in Florida cannot legally drive. Thursday morning a group called the Dream Defenders asked Tampa City Council to adopt a resolution supporting a change in state law.
Alekos Zambrano presented an idea called “licenses for all” to city council members.
“For the 1.5 million undocumented immigrants in Florida and in counties like Miami-Dade county for one, 70% of the misdemeanors that they receive and end up getting deported for are traffic related.”
The push t...
1 commentsTwo-hundred mile march for farmworkers' rights doesn't hurdle Publix roadblock listen
03/18/13 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: CIW, Publix, workers rights, Fair Food Program, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, immigration, Lakeland
About 1500 farmworkers and their allies completed their 200 mile, two week March for Respect, Rights and Fair food yesterday in Lakeland. They gathered at the headquarters of Publix in hope that the supermarket giant would honor what they’re calling a Fair Food Program.
More than a decade ago south Florida tomato harvesters began a campaign for fair working conditions. Before the Coalition of Immokalee Workers organized, wages had not gone up in more than 20 years and workers are still pa...
Be the first to commentFarmworkers march to Tampa to challenge Publix to honor the Fair Food Program listen
03/13/13 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: CIW, Publix, workers rights, Fair Food Program, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, immigration
Wednesday the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and their allies pass through Tampa on their 200 mile march from Ft Myers to the headquarters of Publix in Lakeland; the marchers are calling on Publix to honor the social responsibility agreement for farm labor reform known as the Fair Food Program.
Right after sunrise, about seventy marchers gather in Riverview´s Mosaic Park to start walking. Oscar Otzoy is with the farmworkers’ coalition.
In its official statement about the Coalition of I...
Be the first to commentFaith leaders and immigrants urge comprehensive immigration reform listen
03/11/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: immigration, immigration reform, DREAM Act, Orlando
Monday in Orlando faith leaders and immigrant students held a prayer rally to reform the nation’s immigration system.
Minutes before the rally was to begin, WMNF spoke by phone with one of the organizers, Rev. Errol Thompson, pastor of New Life Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Orlando.
He’s also chair of PICO (People Improving Communities for Organizing) United Florida.
Be the first to comment"The rally is about a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million people here in the United States that hav...
Debating Immigration Reform
01/30/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: immigration, illegal immigrants, amnesty, immigration reform, Senator Marco Rubio, Patrick Manteiga, la Gaceta
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei.
Coming up today we’ll hear a debate and discussion about the proposals for immigration reform. But first- two listener comments about previous programs… one about the discussion about smart meters- which came up on the last call on Monday. The other about the brief discussion yesterday about immigration reform…. Here’s what two listeners had to say.
Yesterday President Obama gave a major speech yesterday about his ideas for immig...
Be the first to commentNearly 200 immigrants become U.S. citizens while Senators push for comprehensive immigration reform listen
01/28/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: immigration, naturalization, citizenship, Marco Rubio, Bill Nelson, immigration reform
Some Republicans and Democrats in the Senate announced an immigration reform framework today that would benefit undocumented immigrants. Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said the agreement is a major breakthrough because Americans oppose illegal immigration, but support legal immigration.
The push came as nearly 200 Tampa Bay area immigrants became American citizens during a naturalization ceremony at Eckerd College Monday morning.
People from 56 countries ranging in...
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