05/15/13 Below is a press release from immigration advocates in Nevada, who held a press conference today asking Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) where he stands on immigration reform: Leaders from Nevada’s Latino, Asian and immigrant communities gathered on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday to ask where Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) stands on the bipartisan [...]
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05/14/13 Yesterday, advocates with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, United We DREAM, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund held a press conference asking President Obama to stop deporting future citizens.  Here’s David Nakamura at the Washington Post covering: Immigration advocates called on President Obama on Monday to suspend deportations of undocumented workers who [...]
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05/13/13 After a town hall earlier this month in which Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) referred to immigrants as “anchor babies,” members of the Wisconsin immigrant-rights group Voces de la Frontera (and their youth arm, Youth Empowered in the Struggle), collected and delivered 7,226 petitions asking Ryan to apologize for using the term. Last week, members of [...]
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05/10/13 Ben Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP, posted this great article on African Americans and immigration reform at Huffington Post today.  It’s entitled “No Second Class Families,” and you can read an excerpt of it below: African Americans have spent much of our history fighting for equal treatment. Just two generations ago, our parents [...]
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05/10/13 This morning we wrote about how this Sunday–Mothers’ Day–is the fifth anniversary of Postville, Iowa, a brutal immigration raid that led to hundreds of deportations, untold numbers of separated families, and one devastated community. Today, advocates and allies in Iowa are commemorating the Iowa raid, sending letters to their Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), rallying in [...]
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05/08/13 Below is a press release from the Alliance for Citizenship: On a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, national leaders and immigrant advocates outlined expectations for the Senate Judiciary mark-up of S. 744: Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. The Alliance for Citizenship, a national campaign working with hundreds of groups around the country [...]
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05/07/13 Today, over 100 high profile artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, comedians, directors, producers, and performers are joining the growing movement for immigration reform, and  calling on President Obama and Congress to pass legislation with a pathway to citizenship. Members of the creative community who are speaking out for humane reform include Russell Banks, W. Kamau Bell, [...]
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05/01/13 We have discovered the quickest, most effective way for you to influence Congress and help pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million Americans currently living in the US without papers. Writing a letter to the editor is the most effective way for you to reach your member of Congress.  We’ve created a tool that makes sending these letters simple [...]
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05/01/13 Check out this great Storify from Reform Immigration FOR America: [View the story "May Day 2013" on Storify]
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04/25/13 The Senate Gang of 8 immigration bill has been released, a number of hearings have been held, and markup is scheduled to start in a few weeks.  Meanwhile, the strength of the pro-immigration reform movement continues to demonstrate its power–and the movement is growing every day. This morning, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform–who [...]
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04/10/13 More than 100,000 immigrant families and their supporters arrived from more than 30 states to fill the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, demanding that Congress act now to pass immigration reform legislation that provides a clear and direct path to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented Americans. The Rally for Citizenship [...]
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04/10/13 Thousands of activists and advocates are coming from all over the nation to Washington, DC today to lobby Congressmembers for immigration reform–and participate in a huge rally for immigration on Capitol Hill.  The action’s already started, with Congress visits to legislators.  Follow live updates on our Twitter list, or check out the #A10 and #TimeIsNow [...]
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04/10/13 Video will be live Wednesday, April 10, 3 PM to 6 PM ET.  Also please check out the event website www.citizenship-now.org, , and our Twitter and Facebook for live updates. UPDATE: The rally is also being broadcast by CSPAN 3, which can be seen online here. Live streaming by Ustream
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04/08/13 On Wednesday, April 10, tens of thousands of community, labor and immigrant rights supporters and immigrant families will converge on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, urging Congress to pass common sense immigration reform in 2013 that includes a clear and direct path to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants. Immigrant families [...]
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04/05/13 Lots of news this week, which started out with the business-and-labor agreement on immigration reform and continued with Marco Rubio’s insistence on slowing down an immigration bill.  Here’s a roundup of the news you might’ve missed: New polling by Small Business Majority shows that business owners around the U.S. support immigration reform:Nine in 10 small business owners [...]
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03/28/13 It’s Easter Recess for Congressmembers, who are back at home holding town halls, meeting with constituents–and being served petitions with tens of thousands of local signers all demanding immigration reform. A coalition of immigrant-rights groups, in conjunction with local organizations, have collected more than 40,000 petitions from immigration reform supporters across the country, and are [...]
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03/26/13 SEIU will begin to air $300,000 in ads nationwide on Wednesday, calling for immigration reform with a path to citizenship.  The ad is part of a seven-figure television ad campaign from SEIU, according to the Washington Post. As the ad intones: Our immigration system is broken, and Congress has a chance to fix it the fair and [...]
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03/14/13 Yesterday, we wrote about and posted pictures from the “people’s hearing” for immigration reform on the Hill.  Today, Julia Preston has a great piece in the New York Times on the grassroots push for immigration legislation and how this year’s approach differs from the backroom nature of previous attempts at immigration reform.  As Julia writes: In [...]
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03/13/13 A coalition of grassroots immigrants’ rights organization with the Fair Immigration Reform Movement came to Washington, DC today to hold a “people’s hearing” in favor of immigration reform and family unity.  The participants were mostly members of the Keeping Families Together Bus Tour, which launched last month and sent busfuls of immigrants and their families [...]
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03/11/13 Starting TOMORROW and continuing through this week, groups supporting immigration reform–like SEIU–are asking that you exercise your rights for immigration reform. The immigration debate is underway, and it’s crucial that we let Congress know that we support reform, and that immigration reform MUST include a path to citizenship! Please call Congress tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday—March [...]
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03/07/13 The Keeping Families Together Bus Tour is now well underway, with busfuls of immigrant families across the nation traveling around to key Congressional districts, asking the Congress members to support immigration reform. Georgia has just completed its bus tour, Oregon yesterday had a powerful kickoff with over a hundred people, and Washington state held big [...]
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03/05/13 Last month we brought to you the story of Jessica Bravo and anti-immigrant super-hardliner Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA).  When Jessica, a DREAMer, came to Rohrabacher’s office to ask him to support immigration reform, he screamed at her that he “hate[s] illegals” and told her “now I know where you live.” The story of the sitting [...]
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03/04/13 Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an anti-immigrant ultra-extremist who is responsible for state laws like Arizona’s SB 1070, hasn’t been much seen or heard from in the current immigration debate.  And if the Kansas-based grassroots group Sunflower Community Action has anything to say about it, he’ll stay out of the picture. Late last week, [...]
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02/28/13 As we’ve written, there is a broad coalition of advocates and leaders from a number of different sectors—faith, law enforcement, labor, business, civil and human rights organizations—joining together to call for immigration reform, and the strength of the movement grows every day. In addition, local activists from different states across the nation have in the [...]
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02/25/13 In Chicago today, families torn apart by the US immigration system gathered to launch the Keeping Families Together Story Tour, which will highlight the voices of those who have been separated from loved ones due to deportation.  Over the next three weeks, more than 500 family members will join the tour and travel more than [...]
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04/02/12 Legislators in Alabama are gearing up to announce changes to H.B. 56. Rumor has it that they are interested in only making "tweaks" to the law, but as we clearly know: we need more than just tweaks
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