Hundreds of immigrants and activists from across the country are gathering for the #Not1More Deportation Campaign conference, order a weekend-long series of events that will bring together anti-deportation activists to plan an upcoming strategy that will “escalate the fight against deportations of the Obama administration.” Organizers expect over 300 peo…
Impatient for an immigration overhaul, many U.S. activists are shifting their focus from Congress to President Barack Obama , patient whom they blame for a deportation policy that has been removing immigrants from the country at the rate of about 1,100 a day, substantially more than under the Bush administration. Immigrant and civil-rights organizations…
Impatient for an immigration overhaul, many U.S. activists are shifting their focus from Congress to President Barack Obama , whom they blame for a deportation policy that has been removing immigrants from the country at the rate of about 1,100 a day, substantially more than under the Bush administration. Immigrant and civil-rights organizations…
Because comprehensive immigration reform legislation is bottled up in the U.S. House for now, help Obama should revisit this issue and find a better way to limit deportations. Too big a reduction might scare away potential Republican votes for immigration reform, seek but there is a middle ground. Immigration reform advocates point to last summer’s Deferred…
A coalition of Hispanic activist groups has announced a plan to take it upon themselves to “shut down” another federal agency next Monday. At a news conference outside the Phoenix Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, activists announced a “day of action” against ICE. Organizers say the Obama administration is about to set a shameful…
El Gobierno mexicano expresó su reconocimiento a las nuevas leyes aprobadas en California que reconocen los aportes, así como las aspiraciones y planteamientos de los inmigrantes. La Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) destacó por medio de un comunicado el trabajo de la Asamblea Estatal de California y del gobernador, Jerry Brown, para que la…
El gobernador de California Jerry Brown promulgó el sábado un paquete de iniciativas de ley relacionadas con inmigración, incluida una que prohíbe a agencias judiciales locales detener a personas para deportación si fueron arrestadas por un delito menor que les permita ser elegibles a obtener la libertad. El proyecto de ley AB4 del asambleísta demócrata Tom Ammiano crea un estándar estatal sobre cómo deben las agencias locales cumplir con el programa federal de Comunidades Seguras, el cual exige a agentes judiciales revisar el estatus de inmigración de la gente que sea arrestada y retener durante 48 horas a cualquiera a quienes las autoridades federales deseen detener. La ley que firmó Brown permite a la policía estatal y local, así como a los departamentos del alguacil, detener a inmigrantes solo si han sido arrestados o declarados culpables por ciertos delitos graves o violentos.
On a day when immigrant-rights activists nationwide rallied for action from Washington, Gov. Jerry Brown put California at the vanguard of change, signing sweeping laws aimed at speeding the assimilation of those in the country illegally. Brown signed eight bills Saturday, including one prohibiting local law enforcement officials from detaining…
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that prohibits local law enforcement agencies from detaining people for deportation if they are arrested for a minor crime and otherwise eligible to be released from custody. Assembly Bill 4, also known as the “TRUST Act,” was designed to counteract an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that critics of the program say has led to nearly 100,000 Californians classified as “dangerous criminals.” AB 4 aims to give illegal immigrants in California “protection from overzealous immigration enforcement,” according to a statement from a spokesperson for the bill’s sponsor, Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco.
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a series of bills collectively called the Trust Act into law on Saturday that expands upon the California Dream Act, which gave undocumented individuals more rights under California law than they had previously. The Transparency and Responsibility Using State Tools Act, colloquially known as the Trust Act,…