New Yorkers Set Out on Five-Day Road Trip to Push for Immigration Reform
Looking to pressure elected officials to act immediately on immigration reform, a group of New Yorkers set out on a road trip around the state.
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On Eve of State of the Union Address, Immigration Reform Activists Show Impatience With Obama
As President Obama prepares a State of the Union address in which he may mention immigration reform, activists want to remind him that he had promised to deal with it in his first year in office.
Progressive Activists React to Grim Diagnoses on Immigration Reform
With a lightning round of conference calls and press releases, pro-reform activists tried to tamp down gloomy predictions about the future of immigration reform in Congress after Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. They argued that unlike the health care overhaul, this is an initiative that enjoys bipartisan support.
With Health Care Bill Looking Shaky, What’s Left for Immigration Reform?
Republican Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts senate race is widely seen as a major blow to President Barack Obama’s hope of passing health care reform. Does this mean immigration reform –which has taken a back seat to health care since Obama took office a year ago— is dead?
Arizona March for Immigrant Rights Draws National Support
Pro-immigrant and civil rights groups from across the country will march in Phoenix this Saturday to denounce what they call the criminalization of undocumented immigrants in the area.
Guest Columnist: Haitian Immigrant’s Redemption Story Leaves ICE Cold
Can people change? This question is at the heart of the fight between Homeland Security and detained immigration activist Jean Montrevil. The answer has major implications for the reforms that lawmakers propose when they take up immigration reform after health care.
After Years Dreading Deportation, New York Activist is Detained by ICE and Could Be Sent to Haiti
Jean Montrevil, a founder of the local branch of the New Sanctuary Coalition and a legal U.S. resident born in Haiti, was detained by immigration authorities on Dec. 30 during one of his monthly check-ins and is now awaiting deportation at a York, Pa., jail.
As Obama Gets Peace Prize, Immigration Activists Remind Him of Human Rights Issue in the U.S.
On the day that President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway, pro-immigration activists in New York were ready to remind him of what they consider a human rights crisis in the United States: the condition in which thousands of immigrants are detained throughout the nation.
In Virtual Town Hall with Immigration Reform Activists, Gutierrez Promises Bill By December
Activists gathered Wednesday night at house parties across the country in a day of action for comprehensive immigration reform organized by the Reform Immigration for America campaign.
Immigrant Advocates Welcome Napolitano Statement, Will Hold House Parties for Reform
Organizations working for comprehensive immigration reform welcomed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s statement on Friday that Congress needs to move forward with an immigration overhaul early in 2010.