With rain pelting down and a crowd of a supporters behind her with picket signs and umbrellas, and Alma Barrios got on her knees and faced the agents in front of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement office. "Agents of ICE, I plead, please, no more deportations," Barrios said in Spanish through a bullhorn, her voice quivering and tears…
The nation’s heated debate over immigration reform this summer is “a defining historical moment for America” and “a moment for national renewal” Los Angeles Archbi Jose H. Gomez told hundreds of attendees at the closing keynote address of the Catholic Media Conference June 21 in Denver. Archbi Gomez was initially scheduled to talk about the…
The sound of people knocking on Octavio and Nashaley Padilla’s door in fall 2012 interrupted an otherwise quiet evening. But when Nashaley opened the door, she got a sinking feeling that has only deepened with time. Police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents said they’d come looking for someone involved in an accident, Padilla said Wed…
When her husband was arrested crossing the border for the second time, Maria Ines Ayala said that was the end. He’d previously spent a year in immigration jail and if he got caught again he would face even stiffer penalties. So he left Ayala and three children in New Bedford and stayed in El Salvador, where he met another woman. That was in 2006….
Burlington, Massachusetts.- Esta fue semana de acción para grupos que buscan se detengan las deportaciones. Un grupo de manifestantes llegó hasta Burlington en las afueras de las oficinas de ICE para hacer sus reclamos….
With the U.S. Senate poised to vote on an immigration bill late Thursday or Friday, New England supporters of undocumented workers staged a rally this afternoon at the regional Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office in Burlington. It’s part of a week of action calling on the Obama Administration to halt the detention and…
At 3 p.m. this afternoon, patient demonstrators from Massachusetts, check New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut held a peaceful rally in front of the Burlington regional ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters, located at 10 New England Executive Park, off of Mall Road, that abuts the Burlington Mall. See video footage from demonstration. At the…
A push to assuage opposition to the bipartisan immigration bill before Congress by devoting more money and muscle to the task of securing the border with Mexico has yielded at least one unforeseen consequence: It weakened support for the bill among some pro-immigrant groups that had been its most reliable backers….
Boston, clinic Massachusetts.- No más deportaciones. Ese es el mensaje central de campaña de acción nacional donde se esta protestando contra deportaciones y educar a inmigrantes sobre este proceso. Localmente, el Movimiento Inmigrante Estudiantil conocido en inglés por las siglas SIM, en colaboración con otras…
Boston, order Massachusetts.- No más deportaciones. Ese es el mensaje central de campaña de acción nacional donde se esta protestando contra deportaciones y educar a inmigrantes sobre este proceso. Localmente, el Movimiento Inmigrante Estudiantil conocido en inglés por las siglas SIM, en colaboración con otras…