NDLON WELCOMES POPE LEO

For Immediate Release // Please Excuse Cross Posting Friday, May 9th, 2025 Contact: Palmira Figueroa, pfigueroa@ndlon.org, 425.301.2764 LOS ANGELES, May 9 – The election of the American Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday was met with great joy around the world. The following is a statement from Pablo Alvarado, Co-Executive Director of the…

ICE tries to Deny Due Process to Pomona Day Laborers Despite Clear Evidence of Long-Term Residency

For Immediate Release // Please Excuse Cross Posting Tuesday, May 2nd, 2025 Contact: Palmira Figueroa, 425.301.2764, pfigueroa@ndlon.org Pomona, CA — At a press conference and emergency rally this morning outside Pomona City Hall, immigrant rights organizations, legal advocates, and family members of three detained day laborers denounced ICE’s latest attempt to block their release and…

A DAY OF COURAGE IN A TIME OF FEAR

For Immediate Release // Please Excuse Cross Posting Friday, May 2nd, 2025 Contact: Palmira Figueroa, 425-301-2764; pfigueroa@ndlon.org May Day Actions by and for Immigrants Across the Country LOS ANGELES, May 1 – The National Day Laborer Organizing Network and its member organizations came together today, May Day, International Workers Day, in a powerful display of…

Breaking: Government Requests Supreme Court Stay in NTPSA v. Noem

For Immediate Release // Please Excuse Cross Posting Thursday, May 1st, 2025 Contact: Palmira Figueroa, pfigueroa@ndlon.org, (425) 301-2764 Martin Pineda, mpineda@carecen-la.org, (562) 916-5650 Sandra Hernandez, hernandezs@law.ucla.edu (310) 386-5768 Nicholas Reiner, communications@aclusocal.org (213) 977-5252 Souzen Joseph, Info@haitianbridge.org Continues Trump administration effort to strip humanitarian protections from 350,000 Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries LOS ANGELES -The Trump administration today…

NDLON Responds to 100 Days of Trump 2.0

For Immediate Release // Please Excuse Cross Posting Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 Contact: Palmira Figueroa, 425-3012764, pfigueroa@ndlon.org LOS ANGELES, April 29 — Today is the Trump regime’s 100th day. It’s a cliché of journalism to use Day 100 to compare any new Presidential administration with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic first term in 1933. Not…

Sinking Approval, Rising Resistance: Trump’s Immigration Policies Face Public Backlash

A new poll shows that President Trump’s approval on immigration and other issues is sinking. Sinking like the economy. Like America’s standing in the world.

The following is a statement from Pablo Alvarado, Co-Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON).

“The American people understand what is happening. The President has vast power. He commands armies and arsenals. No one on earth has a louder megaphone. How weak and small of him to use his mighty office to hurt and terrorize those who cannot hurt him. Immigrants who cannot strike back. Non-citizens whose status already makes them vulnerable. Peaceable workers and parents who have never committed or been convicted of any crimes.

REST IN PEACE, POPE FRANCIS

For Immediate Release // Please Excuse Cross Posting Monday, April 21st, 2025 Contact: Palmira Figueroa, 425-301-2764; pfigueroa@ndlon.org LOS ANGELES, April 21 – The following is a statement from Pablo Alvarado, Co-Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON): How lucky we were. When we finally saw the arrival of the first Pope from…