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Have you done your part to Restore Fairness to the immigration system?
Posted: September 23, 2009 at 1:06 pm By adminOriginally posted by Rachel LaBruyere at Standing FIRM. Our friends at Breakthrough have launched an important campaign to bring back due process and fairness to the U.S. immigration system: Restore Fairness. Since the Declaration of Independence, America has striven to uphold human rights ideals like fairness and due process. However, in the aftermath of 9-11, [...]
Deepak Bhargava: Reform Immigration FOR America
Posted: June 4, 2009 at 7:43 am By adminDeepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Campaign for Community Change, and recent recipient of the Paul Wellstone award, blogs at Huffington Post about the urgent need for Immigration Reform in America. This week, all around the nation, the Reform Immigration FOR America campaign is being launched. The goal is to fix our broken immigration system. [...]
Video: Family Unity Tour Sweeps Through Chicago on Eve of Postville Day of Remembrance
Posted: May 28, 2009 at 10:38 am By Americas VoiceMay 11, 2009 Progress Illinois’ Josh Kalven reports on the last stage of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ Family Unity Tour in a post called, ”We Have More Work To Do“: We were there last November when Rep. Luis Gutierrez held an event at St. Pius Church on Chicago’s West Side that highlighted those families being torn apart by the country’s broken [...]
Weekly Immigration Wire: Women Central to Immigration Story
Posted: May 28, 2009 at 10:33 am By Americas VoiceMay 22, 2009 Note: This is a weekly feature by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger Celebrated stories of early American pioneers, explorers, and immigrants typically center around men of fortitude and bravery. Depictions of modern-day migrants are still very male-centric, and this cultural lens is a default in most cases. But women play a central and [...]
Immigration Inching Towards Reform One Year After Postville Raids
Posted: May 21, 2009 at 11:33 am By Immigration ImpactMay 12, 2009 Today, May 12, 2009, marks the one-year anniversary of the in Postville, Iowa, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted the largest workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, arresting 389 immigrants at the Iowa Agriprocessors meatpacking plant for the crime of working without proper authorization. Aside from the tragedy of separating families and [...]
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