Today: Unity events for immigrant families
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/immigrant-families-plan-national-day-of-action
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=immigrant
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
The partnership will be called #EmergingUS and, in an unusual arrangement for a newspaper, it will be shared between the Times and Vargas.
Austin Beutner, the publisher and CEO of the Times, said #EmergingUS is the first of several “verticals” of news coverage the newspaper will establish in the months to come.
He cited the New York Times’ DealBook section of mergers and acquisitions coverage and Politico’s coverage of Washington as two examples of the approach he’d like to take.
The name of the venture announced on Tuesday can be read two ways: as “Emerging Us” or “Emerging U.S.” for the United States.
Vargas said it is “a multimedia platform that, through articles, original videos, shareable data and graphics, will focus on the intersection of race, immigration and identity and the complexities of multiculturalism.”
Race isn’t just about white and black, he and Beutner said, and immigration isn’t just about the border. The new venture will try to capture those complexities.
#EmergingUS will exist primarily on the web, but some of the work will eventually appear in the newspaper as well. The venture will produce videos and hold events.
Since being appointed the publisher last August, Beutner, a former investment banker, has spoken of “unburdening” his journalists from print formats.
The Times’ web traffic shows “really high engagement” at the 100-word level and the 1,000-to-2,000-plus-word level, he said.
“You find the dead zone in the middle, 500-700 words. That form factor, which exists in many newspapers, doesn’t exist because Steve Coll and the Columbia Journalism School thinks 500-700 words is the best form factor. It’s because five of those stories fit on a printed page. So we’re unburdening our journalists from that format.”
Journalist is a key word. While Vargas has been an immigrant activist for several years, he has been a writer and reporter for more than a decade, and he said #EmergingUS “utilizes every skill I have” from those jobs.
In 2008, while at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.
Vargas moved to The Huffington Post in 2009. After he revealed his undocumented status in a 2011 essay for The New York Times Magazine, he created a nonprofit group called Define American aimed at “elevating the conversation” about immigration.
The group sought to share stories from contributors who are undocumented, thereby attaching sympathetic faces to the fractious immigration debate.
Related: Jose Antonio Vargas: Why I made ‘Documented’
Vargas also directed and starred in a documentary about his experience, “Documented,” which was televised by CNN last year. He is now working on another documentary, this one for MTV, about whiteness.
Stephen Friedman, the president of MTV, said it will premiere sometime this spring or summer.
“Jose has been very open about being undocumented and being — both as a person of color, a person who’s openly gay — constantly questioned on his status and what it means,” Friedman said.
Because Vargas lacks citizenship, “it has been a unique challenge to figure out, legally, how we all make it work,” Friedman acknowledged.
He said MTV looked to CNN as a model. (CNN, which is the parent of this web site, acquired “Documented” from Vargas’s production company.)
Similarly, The Los Angeles Times can’t hire Vargas directly, “but we can become a business partner with him,” Beutner said. “So that’s what we’ve chosen to do.”
#EmergingUS will include other staff members, some of whom may work directly for Vargas’s production company.
Vargas declined to comment on the ownership structure of the venture, but said “if #EmergingUS does well, then I do well.”
Beutner emphasized that Vargas is coming on board as a journalist, not an activist.
“The point of view” of the venture, he said, “is that this is an important topic to be talked about. It’s not meant to be advocacy, and it won’t be advocacy. But the mere fact that we’re telling more stories will change, we think, the way people view the topic.”
Source Article from http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
America's famous undocumented immigrant's new project
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=immigrant
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
The partnership will be called #EmergingUS and, in an unusual arrangement for a newspaper, it will be shared between the Times and Vargas.
Austin Beutner, the publisher and CEO of the Times, said #EmergingUS is the first of several “verticals” of news coverage the newspaper will establish in the months to come.
He cited the New York Times’ DealBook section of mergers and acquisitions coverage and Politico’s coverage of Washington as two examples of the approach he’d like to take.
The name of the venture announced on Tuesday can be read two ways: as “Emerging Us” or “Emerging U.S.” for the United States.
Vargas said it is “a multimedia platform that, through articles, original videos, shareable data and graphics, will focus on the intersection of race, immigration and identity and the complexities of multiculturalism.”
Race isn’t just about white and black, he and Beutner said, and immigration isn’t just about the border. The new venture will try to capture those complexities.
#EmergingUS will exist primarily on the web, but some of the work will eventually appear in the newspaper as well. The venture will produce videos and hold events.
Since being appointed the publisher last August, Beutner, a former investment banker, has spoken of “unburdening” his journalists from print formats.
The Times’ web traffic shows “really high engagement” at the 100-word level and the 1,000-to-2,000-plus-word level, he said.
“You find the dead zone in the middle, 500-700 words. That form factor, which exists in many newspapers, doesn’t exist because Steve Coll and the Columbia Journalism School thinks 500-700 words is the best form factor. It’s because five of those stories fit on a printed page. So we’re unburdening our journalists from that format.”
Journalist is a key word. While Vargas has been an immigrant activist for several years, he has been a writer and reporter for more than a decade, and he said #EmergingUS “utilizes every skill I have” from those jobs.
In 2008, while at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.
Vargas moved to The Huffington Post in 2009. After he revealed his undocumented status in a 2011 essay for The New York Times Magazine, he created a nonprofit group called Define American aimed at “elevating the conversation” about immigration.
The group sought to share stories from contributors who are undocumented, thereby attaching sympathetic faces to the fractious immigration debate.
Related: Jose Antonio Vargas: Why I made ‘Documented’
Vargas also directed and starred in a documentary about his experience, “Documented,” which was televised by CNN last year. He is now working on another documentary, this one for MTV, about whiteness.
Stephen Friedman, the president of MTV, said it will premiere sometime this spring or summer.
“Jose has been very open about being undocumented and being — both as a person of color, a person who’s openly gay — constantly questioned on his status and what it means,” Friedman said.
Because Vargas lacks citizenship, “it has been a unique challenge to figure out, legally, how we all make it work,” Friedman acknowledged.
He said MTV looked to CNN as a model. (CNN, which is the parent of this web site, acquired “Documented” from Vargas’s production company.)
Similarly, The Los Angeles Times can’t hire Vargas directly, “but we can become a business partner with him,” Beutner said. “So that’s what we’ve chosen to do.”
#EmergingUS will include other staff members, some of whom may work directly for Vargas’s production company.
Vargas declined to comment on the ownership structure of the venture, but said “if #EmergingUS does well, then I do well.”
Beutner emphasized that Vargas is coming on board as a journalist, not an activist.
“The point of view” of the venture, he said, “is that this is an important topic to be talked about. It’s not meant to be advocacy, and it won’t be advocacy. But the mere fact that we’re telling more stories will change, we think, the way people view the topic.”
Source Article from http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
America's famous undocumented immigrant's new project
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=immigrant
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
The partnership will be called #EmergingUS and, in an unusual arrangement for a newspaper, it will be shared between the Times and Vargas.
Austin Beutner, the publisher and CEO of the Times, said #EmergingUS is the first of several “verticals” of news coverage the newspaper will establish in the months to come.
He cited the New York Times’ DealBook section of mergers and acquisitions coverage and Politico’s coverage of Washington as two examples of the approach he’d like to take.
The name of the venture announced on Tuesday can be read two ways: as “Emerging Us” or “Emerging U.S.” for the United States.
Vargas said it is “a multimedia platform that, through articles, original videos, shareable data and graphics, will focus on the intersection of race, immigration and identity and the complexities of multiculturalism.”
Race isn’t just about white and black, he and Beutner said, and immigration isn’t just about the border. The new venture will try to capture those complexities.
#EmergingUS will exist primarily on the web, but some of the work will eventually appear in the newspaper as well. The venture will produce videos and hold events.
Since being appointed the publisher last August, Beutner, a former investment banker, has spoken of “unburdening” his journalists from print formats.
The Times’ web traffic shows “really high engagement” at the 100-word level and the 1,000-to-2,000-plus-word level, he said.
“You find the dead zone in the middle, 500-700 words. That form factor, which exists in many newspapers, doesn’t exist because Steve Coll and the Columbia Journalism School thinks 500-700 words is the best form factor. It’s because five of those stories fit on a printed page. So we’re unburdening our journalists from that format.”
Journalist is a key word. While Vargas has been an immigrant activist for several years, he has been a writer and reporter for more than a decade, and he said #EmergingUS “utilizes every skill I have” from those jobs.
In 2008, while at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.
Vargas moved to The Huffington Post in 2009. After he revealed his undocumented status in a 2011 essay for The New York Times Magazine, he created a nonprofit group called Define American aimed at “elevating the conversation” about immigration.
The group sought to share stories from contributors who are undocumented, thereby attaching sympathetic faces to the fractious immigration debate.
Related: Jose Antonio Vargas: Why I made ‘Documented’
Vargas also directed and starred in a documentary about his experience, “Documented,” which was televised by CNN last year. He is now working on another documentary, this one for MTV, about whiteness.
Stephen Friedman, the president of MTV, said it will premiere sometime this spring or summer.
“Jose has been very open about being undocumented and being — both as a person of color, a person who’s openly gay — constantly questioned on his status and what it means,” Friedman said.
Because Vargas lacks citizenship, “it has been a unique challenge to figure out, legally, how we all make it work,” Friedman acknowledged.
He said MTV looked to CNN as a model. (CNN, which is the parent of this web site, acquired “Documented” from Vargas’s production company.)
Similarly, The Los Angeles Times can’t hire Vargas directly, “but we can become a business partner with him,” Beutner said. “So that’s what we’ve chosen to do.”
#EmergingUS will include other staff members, some of whom may work directly for Vargas’s production company.
Vargas declined to comment on the ownership structure of the venture, but said “if #EmergingUS does well, then I do well.”
Beutner emphasized that Vargas is coming on board as a journalist, not an activist.
“The point of view” of the venture, he said, “is that this is an important topic to be talked about. It’s not meant to be advocacy, and it won’t be advocacy. But the mere fact that we’re telling more stories will change, we think, the way people view the topic.”
Source Article from http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
America's famous undocumented immigrant's new project
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=immigrant
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
The partnership will be called #EmergingUS and, in an unusual arrangement for a newspaper, it will be shared between the Times and Vargas.
Austin Beutner, the publisher and CEO of the Times, said #EmergingUS is the first of several “verticals” of news coverage the newspaper will establish in the months to come.
He cited the New York Times’ DealBook section of mergers and acquisitions coverage and Politico’s coverage of Washington as two examples of the approach he’d like to take.
The name of the venture announced on Tuesday can be read two ways: as “Emerging Us” or “Emerging U.S.” for the United States.
Vargas said it is “a multimedia platform that, through articles, original videos, shareable data and graphics, will focus on the intersection of race, immigration and identity and the complexities of multiculturalism.”
Race isn’t just about white and black, he and Beutner said, and immigration isn’t just about the border. The new venture will try to capture those complexities.
#EmergingUS will exist primarily on the web, but some of the work will eventually appear in the newspaper as well. The venture will produce videos and hold events.
Since being appointed the publisher last August, Beutner, a former investment banker, has spoken of “unburdening” his journalists from print formats.
The Times’ web traffic shows “really high engagement” at the 100-word level and the 1,000-to-2,000-plus-word level, he said.
“You find the dead zone in the middle, 500-700 words. That form factor, which exists in many newspapers, doesn’t exist because Steve Coll and the Columbia Journalism School thinks 500-700 words is the best form factor. It’s because five of those stories fit on a printed page. So we’re unburdening our journalists from that format.”
Journalist is a key word. While Vargas has been an immigrant activist for several years, he has been a writer and reporter for more than a decade, and he said #EmergingUS “utilizes every skill I have” from those jobs.
In 2008, while at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.
Vargas moved to The Huffington Post in 2009. After he revealed his undocumented status in a 2011 essay for The New York Times Magazine, he created a nonprofit group called Define American aimed at “elevating the conversation” about immigration.
The group sought to share stories from contributors who are undocumented, thereby attaching sympathetic faces to the fractious immigration debate.
Related: Jose Antonio Vargas: Why I made ‘Documented’
Vargas also directed and starred in a documentary about his experience, “Documented,” which was televised by CNN last year. He is now working on another documentary, this one for MTV, about whiteness.
Stephen Friedman, the president of MTV, said it will premiere sometime this spring or summer.
“Jose has been very open about being undocumented and being — both as a person of color, a person who’s openly gay — constantly questioned on his status and what it means,” Friedman said.
Because Vargas lacks citizenship, “it has been a unique challenge to figure out, legally, how we all make it work,” Friedman acknowledged.
He said MTV looked to CNN as a model. (CNN, which is the parent of this web site, acquired “Documented” from Vargas’s production company.)
Similarly, The Los Angeles Times can’t hire Vargas directly, “but we can become a business partner with him,” Beutner said. “So that’s what we’ve chosen to do.”
#EmergingUS will include other staff members, some of whom may work directly for Vargas’s production company.
Vargas declined to comment on the ownership structure of the venture, but said “if #EmergingUS does well, then I do well.”
Beutner emphasized that Vargas is coming on board as a journalist, not an activist.
“The point of view” of the venture, he said, “is that this is an important topic to be talked about. It’s not meant to be advocacy, and it won’t be advocacy. But the mere fact that we’re telling more stories will change, we think, the way people view the topic.”
Source Article from http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
America's famous undocumented immigrant's new project
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=immigrant
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
The partnership will be called #EmergingUS and, in an unusual arrangement for a newspaper, it will be shared between the Times and Vargas.
Austin Beutner, the publisher and CEO of the Times, said #EmergingUS is the first of several “verticals” of news coverage the newspaper will establish in the months to come.
He cited the New York Times’ DealBook section of mergers and acquisitions coverage and Politico’s coverage of Washington as two examples of the approach he’d like to take.
The name of the venture announced on Tuesday can be read two ways: as “Emerging Us” or “Emerging U.S.” for the United States.
Vargas said it is “a multimedia platform that, through articles, original videos, shareable data and graphics, will focus on the intersection of race, immigration and identity and the complexities of multiculturalism.”
Race isn’t just about white and black, he and Beutner said, and immigration isn’t just about the border. The new venture will try to capture those complexities.
#EmergingUS will exist primarily on the web, but some of the work will eventually appear in the newspaper as well. The venture will produce videos and hold events.
Since being appointed the publisher last August, Beutner, a former investment banker, has spoken of “unburdening” his journalists from print formats.
The Times’ web traffic shows “really high engagement” at the 100-word level and the 1,000-to-2,000-plus-word level, he said.
“You find the dead zone in the middle, 500-700 words. That form factor, which exists in many newspapers, doesn’t exist because Steve Coll and the Columbia Journalism School thinks 500-700 words is the best form factor. It’s because five of those stories fit on a printed page. So we’re unburdening our journalists from that format.”
Journalist is a key word. While Vargas has been an immigrant activist for several years, he has been a writer and reporter for more than a decade, and he said #EmergingUS “utilizes every skill I have” from those jobs.
In 2008, while at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.
Vargas moved to The Huffington Post in 2009. After he revealed his undocumented status in a 2011 essay for The New York Times Magazine, he created a nonprofit group called Define American aimed at “elevating the conversation” about immigration.
The group sought to share stories from contributors who are undocumented, thereby attaching sympathetic faces to the fractious immigration debate.
Related: Jose Antonio Vargas: Why I made ‘Documented’
Vargas also directed and starred in a documentary about his experience, “Documented,” which was televised by CNN last year. He is now working on another documentary, this one for MTV, about whiteness.
Stephen Friedman, the president of MTV, said it will premiere sometime this spring or summer.
“Jose has been very open about being undocumented and being — both as a person of color, a person who’s openly gay — constantly questioned on his status and what it means,” Friedman said.
Because Vargas lacks citizenship, “it has been a unique challenge to figure out, legally, how we all make it work,” Friedman acknowledged.
He said MTV looked to CNN as a model. (CNN, which is the parent of this web site, acquired “Documented” from Vargas’s production company.)
Similarly, The Los Angeles Times can’t hire Vargas directly, “but we can become a business partner with him,” Beutner said. “So that’s what we’ve chosen to do.”
#EmergingUS will include other staff members, some of whom may work directly for Vargas’s production company.
Vargas declined to comment on the ownership structure of the venture, but said “if #EmergingUS does well, then I do well.”
Beutner emphasized that Vargas is coming on board as a journalist, not an activist.
“The point of view” of the venture, he said, “is that this is an important topic to be talked about. It’s not meant to be advocacy, and it won’t be advocacy. But the mere fact that we’re telling more stories will change, we think, the way people view the topic.”
Source Article from http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
America's famous undocumented immigrant's new project
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=immigrant
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
The partnership will be called #EmergingUS and, in an unusual arrangement for a newspaper, it will be shared between the Times and Vargas.
Austin Beutner, the publisher and CEO of the Times, said #EmergingUS is the first of several “verticals” of news coverage the newspaper will establish in the months to come.
He cited the New York Times’ DealBook section of mergers and acquisitions coverage and Politico’s coverage of Washington as two examples of the approach he’d like to take.
The name of the venture announced on Tuesday can be read two ways: as “Emerging Us” or “Emerging U.S.” for the United States.
Vargas said it is “a multimedia platform that, through articles, original videos, shareable data and graphics, will focus on the intersection of race, immigration and identity and the complexities of multiculturalism.”
Race isn’t just about white and black, he and Beutner said, and immigration isn’t just about the border. The new venture will try to capture those complexities.
#EmergingUS will exist primarily on the web, but some of the work will eventually appear in the newspaper as well. The venture will produce videos and hold events.
Since being appointed the publisher last August, Beutner, a former investment banker, has spoken of “unburdening” his journalists from print formats.
The Times’ web traffic shows “really high engagement” at the 100-word level and the 1,000-to-2,000-plus-word level, he said.
“You find the dead zone in the middle, 500-700 words. That form factor, which exists in many newspapers, doesn’t exist because Steve Coll and the Columbia Journalism School thinks 500-700 words is the best form factor. It’s because five of those stories fit on a printed page. So we’re unburdening our journalists from that format.”
Journalist is a key word. While Vargas has been an immigrant activist for several years, he has been a writer and reporter for more than a decade, and he said #EmergingUS “utilizes every skill I have” from those jobs.
In 2008, while at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.
Vargas moved to The Huffington Post in 2009. After he revealed his undocumented status in a 2011 essay for The New York Times Magazine, he created a nonprofit group called Define American aimed at “elevating the conversation” about immigration.
The group sought to share stories from contributors who are undocumented, thereby attaching sympathetic faces to the fractious immigration debate.
Related: Jose Antonio Vargas: Why I made ‘Documented’
Vargas also directed and starred in a documentary about his experience, “Documented,” which was televised by CNN last year. He is now working on another documentary, this one for MTV, about whiteness.
Stephen Friedman, the president of MTV, said it will premiere sometime this spring or summer.
“Jose has been very open about being undocumented and being — both as a person of color, a person who’s openly gay — constantly questioned on his status and what it means,” Friedman said.
Because Vargas lacks citizenship, “it has been a unique challenge to figure out, legally, how we all make it work,” Friedman acknowledged.
He said MTV looked to CNN as a model. (CNN, which is the parent of this web site, acquired “Documented” from Vargas’s production company.)
Similarly, The Los Angeles Times can’t hire Vargas directly, “but we can become a business partner with him,” Beutner said. “So that’s what we’ve chosen to do.”
#EmergingUS will include other staff members, some of whom may work directly for Vargas’s production company.
Vargas declined to comment on the ownership structure of the venture, but said “if #EmergingUS does well, then I do well.”
Beutner emphasized that Vargas is coming on board as a journalist, not an activist.
“The point of view” of the venture, he said, “is that this is an important topic to be talked about. It’s not meant to be advocacy, and it won’t be advocacy. But the mere fact that we’re telling more stories will change, we think, the way people view the topic.”
Source Article from http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
America's famous undocumented immigrant's new project
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=immigrant
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
The partnership will be called #EmergingUS and, in an unusual arrangement for a newspaper, it will be shared between the Times and Vargas.
Austin Beutner, the publisher and CEO of the Times, said #EmergingUS is the first of several “verticals” of news coverage the newspaper will establish in the months to come.
He cited the New York Times’ DealBook section of mergers and acquisitions coverage and Politico’s coverage of Washington as two examples of the approach he’d like to take.
The name of the venture announced on Tuesday can be read two ways: as “Emerging Us” or “Emerging U.S.” for the United States.
Vargas said it is “a multimedia platform that, through articles, original videos, shareable data and graphics, will focus on the intersection of race, immigration and identity and the complexities of multiculturalism.”
Race isn’t just about white and black, he and Beutner said, and immigration isn’t just about the border. The new venture will try to capture those complexities.
#EmergingUS will exist primarily on the web, but some of the work will eventually appear in the newspaper as well. The venture will produce videos and hold events.
Since being appointed the publisher last August, Beutner, a former investment banker, has spoken of “unburdening” his journalists from print formats.
The Times’ web traffic shows “really high engagement” at the 100-word level and the 1,000-to-2,000-plus-word level, he said.
“You find the dead zone in the middle, 500-700 words. That form factor, which exists in many newspapers, doesn’t exist because Steve Coll and the Columbia Journalism School thinks 500-700 words is the best form factor. It’s because five of those stories fit on a printed page. So we’re unburdening our journalists from that format.”
Journalist is a key word. While Vargas has been an immigrant activist for several years, he has been a writer and reporter for more than a decade, and he said #EmergingUS “utilizes every skill I have” from those jobs.
In 2008, while at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.
Vargas moved to The Huffington Post in 2009. After he revealed his undocumented status in a 2011 essay for The New York Times Magazine, he created a nonprofit group called Define American aimed at “elevating the conversation” about immigration.
The group sought to share stories from contributors who are undocumented, thereby attaching sympathetic faces to the fractious immigration debate.
Related: Jose Antonio Vargas: Why I made ‘Documented’
Vargas also directed and starred in a documentary about his experience, “Documented,” which was televised by CNN last year. He is now working on another documentary, this one for MTV, about whiteness.
Stephen Friedman, the president of MTV, said it will premiere sometime this spring or summer.
“Jose has been very open about being undocumented and being — both as a person of color, a person who’s openly gay — constantly questioned on his status and what it means,” Friedman said.
Because Vargas lacks citizenship, “it has been a unique challenge to figure out, legally, how we all make it work,” Friedman acknowledged.
He said MTV looked to CNN as a model. (CNN, which is the parent of this web site, acquired “Documented” from Vargas’s production company.)
Similarly, The Los Angeles Times can’t hire Vargas directly, “but we can become a business partner with him,” Beutner said. “So that’s what we’ve chosen to do.”
#EmergingUS will include other staff members, some of whom may work directly for Vargas’s production company.
Vargas declined to comment on the ownership structure of the venture, but said “if #EmergingUS does well, then I do well.”
Beutner emphasized that Vargas is coming on board as a journalist, not an activist.
“The point of view” of the venture, he said, “is that this is an important topic to be talked about. It’s not meant to be advocacy, and it won’t be advocacy. But the mere fact that we’re telling more stories will change, we think, the way people view the topic.”
Source Article from http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
America's famous undocumented immigrant's new gig
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/17/media/jose-antonio-vargas-los-angeles-times/index.html?section=money_topstories
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=immigrant
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
immigrant – Yahoo News Search Results
A federal judge in Texas has blocked President Obama’s executive action on immigration, giving Texas and 25 other states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen’s decision comes after a hearing in Brownsville, Texas in January and puts on hold Obama’s order, which could protect millions of immigrants who are here illegally from being deported.
Hanen wrote in a memorandum accompanying his order that the lawsuit should go forward and that without a preliminary injunction the states will “suffer irreparable harm in this case.”
“The genie would be impossible to put back into the bottle,” he wrote, adding that he agreed with the plaintiffs’ argument that legalizing the presence of millions of people is a “virtually irreversible” action.
The ruling will remain in place until a trial before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The White House released a statement Tuesday criticizing the judge’s decision.
“The Supreme Court and Congress have made clear that the federal government can set priorities in enforcing our immigration laws—which is exactly what the President did when he announced commonsense policies to help fix our broken immigration system. Those policies are consistent with the laws passed by Congress and decisions of the Supreme Court, as well as five decades of precedent by presidents of both parties who have used their authority to set priorities in enforcing our immigration laws,” the statement reads.
“The Department of Justice, legal scholars, immigration experts, and the district court in Washington, D.C. have determined that the President’s actions are well within his legal authority. Top law enforcement officials, along with state and local leaders across the country, have emphasized that these policies will also benefit the economy and help keep communities safe. The district court’s decision wrongly prevents these lawful, commonsense policies from taking effect and the Department of Justice has indicated that it will appeal that decision.”
Cesar Vargas and Erika Andiola, Co-Directors of the Dream Action Coalition, a political and lobbying voice in immigration issues, also issued a statement saying they weren’t surprised by the judge’s decision.
“The injunction is clearly based more on politics than law, and is now part of an aggressive effort by the rightward fringe of the GOP to scare Dreamers and parents from applying,” the statement reads. “Nevertheless, we will not let this temporary obstacle stop us from holding forums, encouraging people to collect their paperwork and eventually apply; this injunction is only temporary after all.”
The first of Obama’s orders protecting young undocumented immigrants was set to start taking effect Wednesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Source Article from http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-judge-texas-blocks-president-obamas-executive-action/story?id=29011861
Judge Blocks Obama's Action on Immigration
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-judge-texas-blocks-president-obamas-executive-action/story?id=29011861
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=immigration
immigration – Yahoo News Search Results
immigration – Yahoo News Search Results
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The federal judge in South Texas who temporarily blocked President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration once accused the Obama administration of participating in criminal conspiracies to smuggle children into the U.S. by helping reunite them with parents who live here illegally.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, who regularly handles border cases but wasn’t known for being outspoken on immigration until that previous case, on Monday granted a request by a coalition of 26 states led by Texas to block Obama’s action on immigration while a lawsuit to permanently stop the order goes through the courts. Obama’s executive action could spare from deportation as many as 5 million people who are in the U.S. illegally.
Hanen, who’s been on the federal court since 2002 after being nominated by President George W. Bush, spent several years handling the federal government’s land condemnation cases to build the border fence, many times compelling government lawyers to slow down and take necessary procedural steps.
He expressed frustration, however, in a December 2013 order in an immigrant-smuggling case that he’d had four situations in a month in which children who arrived in the U.S. illegally alone were reunited with parents who were themselves in the country illegally.
Hanen sentenced a smuggler to 10 months in prison in that case but saved his most withering words for the U.S. government for not arresting and deporting the mother who hired the smuggler to get her 10-year-old daughter into the U.S. from El Salvador. The government has generally been temporarily reuniting such children with their relatives inside the United States pending deportation proceedings.
“Instead of arresting (the child’s mother) for instigating the conspiracy to violate our border security laws, the (Homeland Security Department) delivered the child to her — thus successfully completing the mission of the criminal conspiracy,” Hanen wrote.
The judge compared the cases to the government seizing weapons being smuggled across the border and delivering them to the criminals inside the United States who ordered them.
“DHS has simply chosen not to enforce the United States’ border security laws,” Hanen wrote. He said the government’s failures to enforce immigration laws were “both dangerous and unconscionable,” although he separately noted, “This court takes no position on the topic of immigration reform, nor should one read this opinion as a commentary on that issue.”
Hanen grew up in Waco, Texas, graduated from Denison University in Ohio in 1975 and went to Baylor University School of Law in Waco, where he graduated first in his class in 1978, according to an autobiography provided by his office. He practiced civil trial law for more than 20 years in Houston.
Lawyers for Texas filed the latest lawsuit in Brownsville, where Hanen is one of only two judges in that division of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Hanen, who gets half of all civil cases filed there, was assigned the case through an automated system.
It’s not unusual for plaintiffs in sensitive civil cases to shop for a court jurisdiction friendly to their point of view, but the location of the court generally must have some connection to the case. In this case, just about any court in Texas would suffice.
Source Article from http://news.yahoo.com/judge-blocked-immigration-action-had-criticized-policy-071531840–politics.html
Judge who blocked immigration action had criticized policy
http://news.yahoo.com/judge-blocked-immigration-action-had-criticized-policy-071531840–politics.html
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=immigration
immigration – Yahoo News Search Results
immigration – Yahoo News Search Results
