Last week, we launched an emergency SMS campaign to drive calls to stop the deportation of Adolfo Garcia Diaz and Julio Diaz Sales, immigrants who were attacked by ICE agents when their home was mistakenly raided.

Much of the talk on Capitol Hill about immigration is centered on a yet to be revealed proposal being developed by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) that would impact immigrant students, and since there’s not even a bill, much less any real sense it could pass both chambers in Congress, the talk is really about its implications for how many Latino and immigrant voters might vote Republican in November. It’s an odd and out-of-touch discussion.

Last week, the Department of Justice sued Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio—self-styled as America’s Toughest Sheriff—for civil rights abuses and obstruction of justice. The policies Arpaio has adopted to justify that moniker are well documented. Here are some of the highlights of two decades of Sheriff Joe.

Last week, the Senate reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The bill, originally enacted in 1994, provides federal funding toward the prosecution of violent crimes against women and includes provisions for undocumented immigrant women. Now the reauthorization bill is before the House. But those vital protections for immigrant women are gone. In fact, the [...]

On the biggest day of our national week of action for immigrant families, the US Supreme Court heard the oral arguments against Arizona’s infamous anti-immigration law, SB 1070. While the constitutionality of the bill was being discussed inside the Court’s white marble walls, faith leaders, labor unions, DREAMers, politicians, activists for immigrant and civil rights, undocumented and documented immigrants, and many others—nearly 1000 in all—stood in solidarity before the steps of the Supreme Court against SB 1070 and other hateful anti-immigration laws.