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Guest post: How our backwards immigration system tore our family apart
Posted: February 8, 2012 at 11:31 am By AllieToo often, it can feel like the reality of this country’s broken immigration system is something we face alone. It’s a system meant to isolate us, so that we do not join together to share our pain and organize to fight back.
Is this what they call creating jobs?
Posted: March 15, 2011 at 2:21 pm By LloydSpeaker John Bohner promised that the new Republican Congress would focus on “jobs, jobs, jobs”. Good to see Republicans got the memo: Two conservative Republican lawmakers, Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) and Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), introduced the English Language Unity Act of 2011 on Friday, a bill that requires that all official United States government [...]
Chuck Grassley goes where even Lou Dobbs won’t tread
Posted: August 5, 2010 at 12:39 pm By admin(Image from The Truth About Cars.) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley is joining Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and Jon Kyl in saying the 14th Amendment should be repealed. The Iowa Independent has this statement from his office: For the past few years, Sen. Grassley has told constituents he’s concerned about the number of births in the [...]
Massachusetts rejects Arizona-style copycat legislation, resolutions opposed to Arizona grow in numbers
Posted: June 29, 2010 at 4:38 pm By Dawn MaberyWhile media attention has focused on the 20 or so states where anti-immigrant legislators have said they plan to introduce bills similar to SB1070 in Arizona, there is a growing story nation-wide about the avalanche of opposition against the Arizona law reflected through dozens of resolutions passed at the municipal and state level. State, city [...]
Des Moines calls for immigration reform in 2010
Posted: January 20, 2010 at 4:15 pm By Rachel LaBruyereLast Thursday, January 14th, more than three dozen members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and fair immigration reform allies gathered outside Congressman Leonard Boswell’s Des Moines. The groups held a press conference, releasing a report from the Center for American Progress and the Immigration Policy Center that confirms immigration reform would make economic sense [...]
Editorials: Washington, Roll up your sleeves and get to work on immigration reform
Posted: December 1, 2009 at 1:47 pm By Katherine VargasOriginally posted at ImmPolitic blog. Last week, editorials around the country made the case for why Washington shouldn’t wait to pass comprehensive immigration reform. A series of editorials endorsing comprehensive immigration reform in some of the nation’s major dailies followed remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at the Center for American Progress where she [...]
Post Postville, Immigrants Still Vital to Iowa’s Economy
Posted: December 1, 2009 at 12:46 pm By Seth HoyOriginally posted at Immigration Impact. Postville, Iowa—home to one of the largest immigration raids in U.S. history—made headlines again this month when Sholom Rubashkin, owner of Agriprocessors Inc., was convicted of “all but five of the 91 business fraud charges listed in a 163-count indictment.” Although the 72 immigration charges were dropped (since they would [...]
The Faith Movement
Posted: November 24, 2009 at 2:13 pm By adminPart 5 in the series “Immigration Reform: Know the Players” from Maribel Hastings. This Thanksgiving week, as end-of-year celebrations commence, faith groups across the country stress the moral urgency of immigration reform. These groups have played an important role in the immigration debate, although the process has not been without controversy. In the 1980s, Catholic [...]
ICE Firing of 1200 Janitors Likened by SEIU to “Redecorating When the House is on Fire”
Posted: November 11, 2009 at 12:31 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy Dara Lind. Originally posted at America’s Voice. This morning, the Associated Press and Minnesota Public Radio reported that 1,200 undocumented janitors had been fired from Twin Cities company ABM under pressure from the Department of Homeland Security. ICE worked with ABM, giving employees a few months to produce documentation and then firing those who [...]
Labor groups make the case for immigration reform
Posted: October 27, 2009 at 4:59 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy Rich Stolz, of the Reform Immigration FOR America Campaign. A report released today by the AFL-CIO, American Rights at Work and the National Employment Law Project (NELP) finds that the federal government’s immigration enforcement in recent years – including a heavy reliance on raids and often inadequately trained enforcement agents – has severely undermined [...]
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