Reaction to News that VP Harris will head immigration reform:
In response to President Biden tapping Vice President Kamala Harris to lead on immigration, NDLON General Counsel Chris Newman made the following statement
In response to President Biden tapping Vice President Kamala Harris to lead on immigration, NDLON General Counsel Chris Newman made the following statement
In response to Senate confirmation of Marty Walsh for US Labor Secretary, NDLON Co-Executive Director Nadia Marin Molina made the following statement
A coalition of civil rights and immigrant organizations have asked President Biden to repair the harms inflicted by Donald Trump and ICE on immigrant factory workers targeted by workplace raids in August of 2019. The organizations delivered the letter below to the Biden Administration over email on March 10, 2021. The letter comes only weeks after the communities received news that one of their community members deported by Trump (Edgar Lopez) was a killed in a massacre of Guatemalan migrants in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
In response to the introduction of the American Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, Chris Newman, General Counsel for NDLON, issued the following statement:
Antes de la introducción de la propuesta “US Citizenship Act” de 2021 del presidente Biden, Pablo Alvarado, codirector ejecutivo de la Red Nacional de Jornaleros (NDLON) emitió la siguiente declaración:
Ahead of introduction of President’s Biden’s US Citizenship Act of 2021, Pablo Alvarado, Co-Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) issued the following statement:
Salvador G. Sarmiento, National Campaign Director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) released the following statement following passage of the Young Amendment to exclude undocumented immigrants from federal pandemic related stimulus aid during the Votarama:
Pablo Alvarado, Co-Executive Director of NDLON, released the following statement in reaction to Alejandro Mayorkas’ new role as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security:
On Wednesday, workers and organizations based in the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, participants of the Corridors for Justice in Labor Migration initiative will join to respond to announcement the Biden Administration’s plan to tackle the root causes of migration in the region. The organizations are asking for transparency, accountability and inclusion as the region faces a one of the worst combination of emergencies in recent history.
Frontline workers from Massachusetts and Connecticut came together (with safe physical distancing) to sound the alarm about how the threats of ICE and deportation have created a crisis for workers.