Posts Tagged ‘luis gutierrez’
CIR ASAP: Game on!
Posted: December 15, 2009 at 3:36 pm By Rachel LaBruyereIts official, the fight for immigration reform is heating up. The press conference to announce Representative Luis Gutierrez’s “CIR ASAP Act” has just ended and now the real work begins! Today, Representatives from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Congressional Asian and Pacific Americans Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus, and Congressional Progressive Caucus joined Congressman Luis [...]
Rep Luis Gutierrez wants CIR ASAP!
Posted: December 11, 2009 at 7:06 pm By Rachel LaBruyereEarlier today Representative Luis Gutierrez announced he would be introducing a comprehensive immigration reform bill this upcoming Tuesday. And while Representative Gutierrez has been a true champion for just and humane immigration reform, he has some serious support behind this new bill already, with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Black Caucus, Asian Pacific American Caucus and [...]
No more excuses for inaction: Rep. Gutierrez to introduce immigration reform bill
Posted: December 11, 2009 at 1:05 pm By Rachel LaBruyereRepresentative Luis Gutierrez, the consummate champion of just and humane immigration reform, is making good on a promise. In October, Rep. Gutierrez came to our Family Unity event and spoke in front of the capitol about the urgent need for reform. In November, he spoke to more than 60,000 people during our Families, Freedom and [...]
VIDEO: How We Will Make Real Immigration Reform a Reality!
Posted: November 20, 2009 at 2:03 pm By Rachel LaBruyereOn Wednesday night, 60,000 people joined what was an incredible call to action on overhauling our nation’s broken immigration laws. Today, we’re releasing a new video that features Congressman Luis Gutierrez unveiling his principles for reform in October, and which calls on all of us to help build the movement for real immigration reform: We [...]
Anti-Immigrant Groups: A Chorus of Intolerance
Posted: November 12, 2009 at 5:23 pm By Rachel LaBruyereFrom Maribel Hastings’ blog. ♫ The third article in the series “Immigration Reform: Know the Players” While Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) has called supporters of immigration reform to participate in a national conversation on November 18th, the anti-immigrant organization Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) is holding “Tea Party” protests in various states this Saturday. With [...]
This Week in Immigration En Español
Posted: October 19, 2009 at 3:36 pm By Rachel LaBruyereBy Katherine Vargas. Originally posted at ImmPolitic Blog. More than eight thousand family members, immigrants, clergy, veterans and community activists from across the country gathered in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to give testimony of how our broken immigration system is threatening family unity and the urgency of passing comprehensive immigration reform. Members of Congress joined [...]
Family Unity: VIDEO of Tuesday’s event on Capitol Hill
Posted: October 16, 2009 at 3:21 pm By Rachel LaBruyereThanks to our partner’s at Americas Voice for this video!
Game on: Why yesterday was important in the fight for reform
Posted: October 14, 2009 at 2:45 pm By Rachel LaBruyereCross posted from Standing FIRM blog. I am exhausted today. Yesterday was a whirlwind of marching, lobbying, writing, tweeting, picture taking, interviewing, chanting and more marching. But it was more than worth it. I was standing side-by-side with more than 8,000 people (according to National Mall staff) as we marched to the front door of [...]
Live-Blogging the RI4A Summit
Posted: June 3, 2009 at 2:18 pm By admin12:00: I’m at the opening luncheon of the RI4A Summit and Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, is speaking about why we are here and why America needs reform. Noorani challenges the attendees to do everything they can to win in this campaign. The crowd is fired up and responding loudly to his calls [...]
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