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  • Immigrant Rights Protests Rock the Country: Up to 2 Million Take to the Streets in the Largest Wave of Demonstrations in U.S. History

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    In an unprecedented wave of protests, as many as two million people took to the streets Monday in more than 100 cities and towns around the country to march for immigrant rights. We hear some of the speakers at the largest rallies in New York and Washington and we speak with some of the demonstrators about why they are taking to the streets. [includes rush transcript]

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  • Publisher of Texas Spanish-Language Daily on Immigrant Protests: "This is a Personal Issue...A True Political Mobilization"

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    Texas has seen some of the largest immigrant rights protests over the past three days. On Sunday over a half-million people filled the streets of Dallas in the city’s largest civil rights march ever. We go to Dallas to speak with Gilbert Bailon, publisher and editor of Al Dia, a Spanish-language daily that serves North Texas. [includes rush transcript]

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  • Dallas High School Student Describes Organizing Mass Walkout

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    We speak with Gustavo Jimenez, a junior at Duncanville High School who helped lead a student walk-out in Dallas last month that saw thousands of students leave classes to protest proposed anti-immigrant legislation. [includes rush transcript]

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  • Eighth Grader Commits Suicide After Being Threatened by School Official With Jail Time for Organizing Walkouts

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    An eighth grader in California killed himself two weeks ago after being threatened by a school official for participating in the student immigrant rights walkouts. Anthony Soltero, 14, died after he shot himself in the head on March 30th. We speak with the attorney representing Soltero’s mother. [includes rush transcript]

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  • El alcalde de Salt Lake City, Rocky Anderson, critica a su amigo Mitt Romney por "cambiar de opinión" en temas como el aborto, la investigación con células madre y la tortura, en un intento por obtener la nominación del Partido Republicano a la presidenci

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    Anderson y Romney se convirtieron en "grandes amigos" tras trabajar juntos en las Olimpiadas de Invierno de 2002 en Salt Lake City. Cada uno de ellos ha hecho campaña para el otro a pesar de ser de partidos distintos, pero ahora Anderson afirma que el apoyo de Mitt Romney a la guerra de Irak, la tortura y la ampliación de Guantánamo al doble de su tamaño actual es "inconcebible". "Estoy muy sorprendido de que alguien como Mitt Romney, quien siempre he creído que tenía una gran integridad y era tan razonable, haya cedido ante sus jefes y cambiado de opinión en tantos asuntos", declaró Anderson.

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  • Immigrant Rights Marches Likened to Second Civil Rights Movement

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    Many are likening the extraordinary national mobilization for immigrant rights to a second civil rights movement. We go to Birmingham, Alabama to speak with the Rev. Lawton Higgs of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. [includes rush transcript]

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