maryland juice: Time for Maryland Democrats to Speak Out for End to Mass Deportations // U.S. Ejecting Residents At Fastest Rate Ever

After the heaviest of lifts, s the comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed the Senate is now languishing in the House of Representatives. It’s easy to see why, since House Republican leadership is already awful busy giving the middle finger to the Affordable Care Act and proposing a renewed food stamp program that cuts $40 billion from S…

President Obama Has Duty to Fix Arizona Crisis He Helped Create

  Cut off Se Communities Program, Grant Relief to Victims of Sheriff Arpaio   August 6, 2013 – Phoenix, AZ In response to President Obama’s visit to Maricopa County, Arizona, Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network issued the following statement:   “While Congress has the responsibility to rewrite immigration law, the President…

A Grandmother Fights Deportation After 30 Years in the United States | @pritheworld

I’m in a waiting room in a large courthouse in San Francisco. Immigration court. Sitting next to me is Magdalena Martinez. She’s here for her mom: Bertha Mejia, online from El Salvador. Bertha’s undocumented. In 2011, immigration officers came to Mejia’s home in Oakland. There was raid in the neighborhood. Martinez remembers that morning. “I got a phone c…

Islas freed pending deportation appeal; ‘double victory’ as Malloy signs TRUST Act into law- The New Haven Register – Serving New Haven, Connecticut

Jose Maria Islas returned to Connecticut Friday, after the federal Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency released him from a Massachusetts jail pending his appeal of a deportation order . A tired but happy Islas stood on the steps of the New Haven People’s Center Friday evening as a small group of supporters held a rally in his honor. Islas, w…

Islas freed pending deportation appeal; ‘double victory’ as Malloy signs TRUST Act into law- The New Haven Register – Serving New Haven, Connecticut

Jose Maria Islas returned to Connecticut Friday, search after the federal Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency released him from a Massachusetts jail pending his appeal of a deportation order . A tired but happy Islas stood on the steps of the New Haven People’s Center Friday evening as a small group of supporters held a rally in his honor. Islas, w…