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Your messages delivered in Alabama!
Posted: November 21, 2011 at 12:35 pm By AllieThis weekend, we joined with national and local immigration groups to deliver nearly 50,000 signatures in support of Alabama families on the steps of the state Capitol.
Alabama residents speak out against HB56
Posted: October 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm By AllieOur allies at America’s Voice interview Alabama residents speaking out against the state’s anti-immigrant law HB56.
State of the Union: What do you want to hear?
Posted: January 25, 2011 at 11:16 am By Rachel LaBruyerePresident Obama will give his second State of the Union address in front of Congress tonight. It’s hard to believe a full year has gone by since his first SOTU address: where he only spared 37 words for the immigration issue he had so enthusiastically campaigned on.
“We should continue the work of fixing our broken [...]
DREAM Youth and Advocates Discuss Legislative Prospects, Six-Figure Ad Campaign
Posted: November 30, 2010 at 4:00 pm By Mahwish KhanOriginally posted on the America’s Voice blog.
With both chambers of Congress planning to take up the DREAM Act this year, students who would benefit from the legislation are joining with labor and immigration reform advocates will unveil a six-figure ad buy in Spanish and English media. The ad campaign, co-sponsored by America’s Voice, SEIU, [...]
Gov. Edgar Supports DREAM Act, New Videos to Sen. Mark Kirk, Say, “Illinois Dreams Together”
Posted: November 29, 2010 at 10:43 am By Jackie MahendraOriginally posted on the America’s Voice blog.
Over the weekend, one of Illinois’ most respected Republican voices, former Governor Jim Edgar, penned an op-ed in support of the Dream Act.
Via the Chicago Tribune:
A rational approach to comprehensive immigration reform should begin with the young people who were brought here as babies, toddlers and adolescents.
Many have [...]
WATCH: “Steve King’s Sixth Sense” – New Immigrant Horror Flick
Posted: June 18, 2010 at 3:45 pm By Jackie MahendraOriginally posted on the America’s Voice blog.
Representatives Steve King (R-IA) and Brian Bilbray (R-CA) have staked out roles as two of the most vehement and controversial anti-immigrant mouthpieces in Congress. Recently, they have offered their collective expertise to Arizona law enforcement, who have spoken out strongly against the state’s new profiling law, SB 1070, [...]
New poll from America’s Voice: America wants solutions
Posted: June 8, 2010 at 1:24 pm By adminAmerica’s Voice has released polling numbers on how the country views Arizona’s new law and comprehensive immigration reform:
[R]ather than a newfound wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, most Americans support Arizona’s law as well as support for national comprehensive immigration reform is driven by a desire for action by Washington on a problem that has been left [...]
Pop Quiz: What Cuts the Deficit and Mobilizes the Base?
Posted: April 6, 2010 at 5:12 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy Frank Sharry, originally posted on the America’s Voice blog.
Give up? We thought so. The answer? Immigration reform.
That’s right. Too many in the political class are looking in the rear-view mirror when it comes to immigration reform. Despite a number of election cycles in which old presumptions were proven wrong, some still believe comprehensive [...]
ICE Out of Control: Time to Rein in Rogue Agency and Pass Immigration Reform
Posted: March 30, 2010 at 7:54 pm By adminBy Frank Sharry, originally posted on the America’s Voice blog (also cross-posted on the Huffington Post).
Today, a group of grassroots leaders are demanding that the Obama Administration fire John Morton, the head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.
Deepak Bhargava of the Center of Community Change, a lead [...]
Congressman Patrick Murphy Should Reject Bridge to Nowhere, Online Ads Say
Posted: February 4, 2010 at 4:12 pm By Adam Luna
Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA) should remove his name from a controversial immigration resolution, H.Res. 1026– the so-called “BRIDGE Resolution.”
Murphy should be leading the fight to pass real comprehensive immigration reform, not following hard-line Members of Congress like Rep. Steve King (R-IA) down this ‘Bridge to Nowhere.’
Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA) should remove his name from a controversial immigration resolution, H.Res. 1026– the so-called “BRIDGE Resolution.”
Murphy should be leading the fight to pass real comprehensive immigration reform, not following hard-line Members of Congress like Rep. Steve King (R-IA) down this ‘Bridge to Nowhere.’
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