Start 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…
DetailsThe Obama administration is deporting fewer people than it did in 2011 or 2012, but has ousted more than 110, 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…
DetailsDays after a Saturday morning Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a popular flea market, stuff immigrant rights advocates are calling for an end to federal operations in their neighborhoods that they say only incite fear – and could make immigrants mistrustful of immigration reform. At 10:30 a.m. on June 29, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s…
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