Posts Tagged ‘janet napolitano’
Family Unity: More than 1,000 hold vigil for immigration reform in Santa Clara
Posted: October 16, 2009 at 10:44 am By Rachel LaBruyereYesterday’s Family Unity event in Santa Clara was a major success. While I couldn’t be there marching alongside our leaders and advocates, I received the following email from one of the Reform Immigration FOR America organizers. I think his words capture the event better than I could, so I will re-post them here: Four states [...]
Family Unity: San Jose event kicks off with a press conference
Posted: October 15, 2009 at 3:03 pm By Rachel LaBruyereToday, leaders and advocates from all over the Western United States are gathering in San Jose, CA to call for immigration reform that keeps families together. Advocates from Oregon, California, Idaho and Washington State have traveled by the hundreds to be in San Jose for today’s event. I just got word that the press conference [...]
Family Unity: Advocates in San Jose call for an end to destructive immigration policy
Posted: October 15, 2009 at 10:42 am By Rachel LaBruyereTuesday was big day, but we aren’t done yet! Building on the momentum we’ve created this week for immigration reform, tonight there will be another Family Unity event in San Jose, California. DHS Janet Napolitano will be speaking tonight at her alma mater, Santa Clara University regarding the question: “What is the role for the [...]
Napolitano Steps up for Immigration Reform in recent statements
Posted: September 1, 2009 at 11:03 am By adminOriginally posted at America’s Voice: Secretary Janet Napolitano is finally coming out in stronger support of immigration reform, giving us a glimpse of the Arizona governor who, at various points in her career, strongly advocated the need for comprehensive immigration reform. After facing much criticism regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s maintenance of Bush-styled enforcement [...]
Immigration Reform Moves a Notch
Posted: August 25, 2009 at 4:20 pm By adminOn August 20th DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano met with stakeholders from various organizations to discuss immigration reform. Here, reform advocates emphasized the need to shift attention from enforcing broken laws to working on reform.
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 [...]
Tell Secretary Napolitano Enough is Enough
Posted: July 31, 2009 at 9:00 am By adminYesterday, our partners at America’s Voice released a new video and petition calling on Secretary Janet Napolitano to investigate unconstitutional home immigration raids and to push for comprehensive immigration reform. Check out the video: SIGN THE PETITION NOW! Tell Secretary Napolitano that enough is enough. When you sign, you will be joined by communities from California [...]
Latest Signs that Obama Administration, Congress Committed to a Comprehensive Solution
Posted: July 23, 2009 at 10:13 am By Americas VoiceFrom America’s Voice: In another sign that momentum is building towards comprehensive immigration reform, President Obama, in remarks last Friday before Spanish language media outlets, reasserted his commitment to immigration reform, saying it is: Something we want to move forward on…we’re going to have to keep the pressure for this to happen. Last week’s remarks [...]
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