Archive for the ‘Massachusetts’ Category

And the Beat Goes On: Immigration Reform and the Road Ahead

Posted: August 27, 2009 at 5:00 pm By admin

As the country reflects on the legacy of Sen. Kennedy, many herald his model of principled bipartisanship as key to the fight for reform.

Immigration Reform Advocates mourn the loss of Ted Kennedy

Posted: August 26, 2009 at 12:15 pm By admin

In light of Senator Kennedy’s passing, advocates and activists come out in praise of his invaluable contribution to immigration rights and reform.

You asked Secretary Napolitano the tough questions

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 5:30 pm By admin

In an effort to truly represent the country’s concerns at today’s meeting with DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, we asked YOU to submit questions you wanted Napolitano to address. The response: you sent in more than 4,000 questions in less than 24 hours. Many of your questions were about the timing of immigration reform and expressed [...]

Deteriorating detention system: Yet another reason to fix immigration

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 12:06 pm By National Immigration Forum

Originally posted at ImmPolitic blog: As Congress gets ready for action on immigration reform legislation —as soon as Labor Day— new reports and government actions this week underscore the urgent need to revamp the broken and highly costly immigration detention system. Administration continues down the path of failed detention policies Hoping to introduce oversight and [...]

Extra! Extra! From Coast to Coast, Campaign Sparks Movement for Immigration Reform

Posted: June 5, 2009 at 1:49 pm By admin

June 4, 2009   Hundreds of grassroots advocates from coast to coast are gathering together in Washington, D.C. this week to unite forces and launch the Reform Immigration FOR America Campaign. The Campaign calls for an American solution to an American problem by reforming our immigration system to a system that upholds our values, restores [...]

Al Hunt: Obama can’t afford to ignore immigration

Posted: April 20, 2009 at 12:23 pm By National Immigration Forum

March 2, 2009 Albert R. Hunt, the distinguished former Wall Street Journal columnist who now writes for Bloomberg, makes a compelling case that President Obama will not be able to hide from the immigration issue for long. (His Bloomberg column was also picked up by the International Herald Tribune.) He makes two basic arguments: far [...]