Liberal House Democrats pounced on President Obama Thursday over his deportation policy, saying he’s been too tough on illegal immigrants at the expense of families. The lawmakers are urging the administration to expand its deferred action program – which allows some undocumented youngsters to remain in the United States temporarily – to adults who…
Twenty-nine House Democratic members sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday calling for him to halt deportations, arguing that it would help, try not hurt, the debate over immigration reform by bringing in new voices. “This is not to abandon comprehensive immigration reform for executive action, this is to say that if you truly care –…
for immediate release // excuse cross-posting Contact: B. Loewe, NDLON, bloewe@ndlon.org, 773.791.4668 12.05.2013 – Washington, DC In reaction to the 1 pm EST press conference today in the House Triangle in which Democratic members of Congress are stepping up calls for the President to exercise discretion in immigration enforcement to stop unnecessary deportations, Pablo Alvarado, executive director…
There was roaring applause at First Churches on Monday night when Rebecca Fricke, district aide to state Rep. Ellen Story, read a statement from the Amherst Democrat declaring support for two bills designed to reform immigration policies on the local level. One of those bills is the Trust Act, H.1613, which would prevent individuals released by…
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“Imagine the president who promised immigration reform in 2008 and now as a result of his own policies, two million who would have benefited from that reform have been expelled from the country,” said B. Loewe, a spokesman for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, a group that organizes deportation protests. Despite an announcement in Aug…
“Imagine the president who promised immigration reform in 2008 and now as a result of his own policies, ed two million who would have benefited from that reform have been expelled from the country, ” said B. Loewe, a spokesman for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, a group that organizes deportation protests. Despite an announcement in Aug…
As official Washington administers last rites to immigration reform for 2013 only to have it pop up again with a barely detectable pulse, undocumented immigrants and their allies continue to press the President to use his power as the executive to suspend removals. Marches, sit-ins, hunger strikes, and social media combat for #notonemore…
About 50 activists rallied outside the Broadview Detention Center Tuesday afternoon and temporarily stopped a bus filled with undocumented immigrants set to be deported. For about an hour, 12 organizers with Undocumented Illinois formed a human chain by linking arms inside tubes made of PVC pipes in front of the bus and others joined arms around t…
Fifteen protesters, including some undocumented Georgians, were arrested yesterday morning protesting the United States’ immigration deportation policy outside the Immigration and Custom Enforcement Field Office on Spring Street near Downtown. Most of the arrested protesters chained themselves to the gate at the entrance of the ICE facility. The…