By Abdi Soltani, ACLU of Northern California at 2:58pm
What do anti-immigrant laws have to do with children and youth?
In my 8-year-old son Cyrus's Spanish immersion program at a Berkeley public school, there are families facing deportation. The teacher taught a class on it and the children wrote letters to President Obama, in Cyrus' words, "to keep families together."
So when I told Cyrus I was going on a long road trip to fight discriminatory anti-immigrant laws, he said "Do it, Baba." And with his vote of approval, off I went.
By Abdi Soltani, ACLU of Northern California & Abdi Soltani, ACLU of Northern California at 12:38pm
Imagine a system to elect the President of the United States where the candidate with the most votes could actually lose. You just imagined our system. And it has happened more than once — and as recently as Bush v. Gore in 2000. National Popular Vote would change that. Under National Popular Vote the candidate with the most votes in the country would win — not most of the time, but every time.
By Abdi Soltani, ACLU of Northern California & Abdi Soltani, ACLU of Northern California at 12:38pm
Imagine a system to elect the President of the United States where the candidate with the most votes could actually lose. You just imagined our system. And it has happened more than once — and as recently as Bush v. Gore in 2000. National Popular Vote would change that. Under National Popular Vote the candidate with the most votes in the country would win — not most of the time, but every time.
