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Detroit stands in solidarity with Arizona
Posted: April 25, 2010 at 6:55 pm By Rachel LaBruyereSeveral dozen community leaders gathered during a quickly organized prayer vigil on Saturday at Western High School in Detroit, Michigan. They included representatives from faith, labor, and student organizations, joined together to call attention to the passage of Arizona’s egregious SB 1070. “We need real solutions for the broken immigration system, not scapegoats,” said Jose [...]
Our Time to Fight for Immigration Reform is Now
Posted: February 4, 2010 at 4:58 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum. Originally posted on the ImmPolitic blog. I spent the last week meeting with people from Texas to New York to California who want our nation’s broken immigration system fixed. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, people of faith and people of conscience, immigrant workers and [...]
The Week In Review
Posted: October 16, 2009 at 6:01 pm By Evan MackinderThis week, we united in the thousands. Family members, community leaders, students, parishioners and politicians, all gathered at events across the country to call on the leadership in this country to pass immigration reform FOR America. We were in Milwaukee, WI, calling on reform that supports the rights of workers. We were in Philadelphia, PA, [...]
Update: Media Coverage of yesterday’s Family Unity event
Posted: October 14, 2009 at 3:48 pm By adminStories about yesterday’s amazing events are still coming in. We’ll continue to update throughout the day, so stay tuned. NATIONAL COVERAGE: NEW YORK TIMES: Immigration Rally Draws Thousands THE HILL: Democrats face uphill climb on immigration WASHINGTON TIMES: Immigration activists call for reform LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS: Immigration reform rally held outside county building FOX [...]
Family Unity: Telling our stories
Posted: October 13, 2009 at 2:30 pm By Rachel LaBruyereThe vigil is starting here in the church. We are beginning with a passage from the gospel of Matthew, read by Rev. Slim Coleman: What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. What you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Where two or three come together in my name, there am [...]
Museums launch town halls: Past and Present meet to discuss immigration
Posted: October 1, 2009 at 11:30 am By adminBy Rachel LaBruyere, originally posted at Standing FIRM. Yesterday, museums across the country launched a new town hall dialogue program about immigration. “Face to face: immigration Then and Now” offers communities a chance to discuss immigration outside of specific policy measures and the fierce political debates that the issue typically inspires. Most importantly, the discussions [...]
Michigan Needs Volunteers!
Posted: September 25, 2009 at 4:18 pm By adminWe need your help. America deserves an immigration policy that is tough, smart, and fair. And to win it, we need the help of Michiganders with those same attributes. Please step up to the plat and take action to reform America’s broken immigration system. Click here to volunteer!
You asked Secretary Napolitano the tough questions
Posted: August 20, 2009 at 5:30 pm By adminIn 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 [...]
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