The National Day Laborer Organizing Network announced Friday that they are “pleased” to see Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano leave the Obama administration. “While Napolitano largely avoided political blame for her disastrous policies by seeking a contrast between her and the very extremists like Joe Arpaio who she empowered, she…
DetailsImmigrant-rights groups are vowing to protest if the University of California hires Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to head its school system, saying her record as chief of President Obama’s immigration policy has been “an unmitigated failure.” Ms. Napolitano announced Friday morning that she has been nominated to take the helm at the…
DetailsImmigrant Rights Groups Happy to See Her Go, Call on President to Renounce Deportation Quota, Expand DACA for all Los Angeles, CA – July 12, 2013 In reaction to the announced resignation of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and her planned move to head the University of California, Chris Newman, legal director for the…
DetailsStart Legalization-First by Suspending Deportations Washington, DC – July 11, 2013 In wake of GOP announcement on immigration reform, Salvador G. Sarmiento, national organizer for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, issued the following statement: “We need real progress in Washington, not fingerpointing. It is not enough for the President or Democrats to blame Republicans for…
DetailsLast Tuesday, July 2, the Undocumented Caravan for the Trust Act arrived in Sacramento just in time to testify at the public safety committee hearing in support of the bill (AB4). We were certain that it would pass its way through much like last year, with no opponents except for the California Sheriffs’ Association, which seems to be run by a…
DetailsThe Obama administration is deporting fewer people than it did in 2011 or 2012, but has ousted more than 110, medical 000 illegal immigrants this year who didn’t have criminal records, according to statistics that call into question the Obama administration’s public statements about its deportation policies. Continued deportation of rank-and-file illegal im…
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