{"id":6653,"date":"2009-03-25T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T16:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2009-03-25T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T16:35:48","slug":"saenz-passed-up-for-top-civil-rights-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/03\/25\/saenz-passed-up-for-top-civil-rights-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Saenz Passed Up for Top Civil Rights Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest032509\/2009_03_25_garcia.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest032509\/2009_03_25_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/blurblawg.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e54f871a9c88330112790b350228a4-120wi\" alt=\"Thomas Saenz\" \/>The Obama administration recently selected Thomas Perez, Maryland\u2019s Labor Secretary, to run the Department of Justice\u2019s civil rights division. Though Perez, a first-generation Dominican-American, has served on the board of two immigration organizations, the President\u2019s move is being called a \u201cflinch on immigration,\u201d by a New York Times editorial published yesterday. Criticism has centered on why the LA-based civil rights attorney Thomas Saenz was not offered the job after having been seen as the leading candidate. Saenz\u2019s record as the former top litigator for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education fund has been markedly strong on immigrants rights issues. He had been instrumental in helping defeat Proposition 187\u2019s implementation in California while defending the human rights of day laborers. With speculation growing that Saenz would be selected for the post, anti-immigrant groups went on the offense attacking his record and polarizing the debate before it even started. In a statement, the National Council of La Raza expressed its \u201cprofound disappointment,\u201d in the Obama administration\u2019s passing up of Saenz. La Opinion also joined the New York Times in voicing their concern for Obama&#8217;s change in position. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Arnoldo Garcia, Enforcement Project Director, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights<\/em>. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnirr.org\">www.nnirr.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration recently selected Thomas Perez, Maryland\u2019s Labor Secretary, to run the Department of Justice\u2019s civil rights division. Though Perez, a first-generation Dominican-American, has served on the board of two immigration organizations, the President\u2019s move is being called a \u201cflinch on immigration,\u201d by a New York Times editorial published yesterday. Criticism has centered on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}