In the eyes of immigrant activists, the immigration plan recently leaked from the Obama White House falls short of even the 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act, signed by Ronald Reagan, which granted amnesty to more than three million undocumented immigrants. Unlike the current proposals under discussion, Regan’s plan did not create separate p…
DetailsBelow are downloadable sample templates to be used to pass resolutions supporting immigration reform and calling for a moratorium on deportations at the local level. The versions are the same except that the one on the left also includes language to explore local options to limit Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests that target people…
DetailsThey trim trees, mow lawns, find care for the elderly, clean up and rebuild after hurricanes and floods — and they defend the Constitution, too. Immigrant day laborers, who are so often the targets of local laws meant to sweep them off street corners, keep battling in court to defend their right to seek work, and they keep winning. On Monday, a t
DetailsA U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday on the side of day laborers seeking work in Arizona, here upholding an injunction that bars the state from enforcing part of its immigration law that prohibits motorists from stopping traffic to pick up workers. In the unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
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