More than 30 Leaders Arrested on Capitol Hill to Protest Unjust Immigration Policies & Send Message that Fight for Immigrant Families Has Been Escalated America’s Voice Founder and Executive Director Frank Sharry was one of more than 30 immigrant rights, labor, faith and other leaders who were arrested this...
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“Respect Our Families, Respect Our Work, and Give Us a Vote on Citizenship” View the photoblog here As Members of Congress head home for the August recess, United Farm Workers, United We Dream and America’s Voice sent all 224 of them off on today, with a sweet American-grown cantaloupe,...
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Below is the third article in the series, “Immigration Reform Summer,” by Gebe Martinez, Advisor to America’s Voice Education Fund. This article is available for reprint as long as the author is given proper attribution. As members of the GOP-controlled House head to their home districts for a month-long...
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Washington Post: Immigration advocates delivering cantaloupes to House GOP lawmakers By Ed O’Keefe MSNBC: Why immigration reformers need to ‘kick ass’ in August By Benjy Sarlin Arizona Republic: Immigration reform backers see hopeful signs in House By Dan Nowicki PRI’s The World: GOP Donors Urge House to Pass Immigration...
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A US district court in Texas today dismissed Kris Kobach’s lawsuit against the deferred action (DACA) program which has for almost a year now granted DREAMers temporary relief from deportation. The suit was dismissed on procedural grounds, and the court held that the Civil Service Reform Act–a law governing...
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The following is a press release from the Alliance for Citizenship: Hundreds of Events in August will Target Key Members and Urge the House to Take Up Immigration Reform The American people support reform with a path to citizenship. The Senate passed a comprehensive, bipartisan bill and now it’s...
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While Anti-Immigrant Forces Will Make Some Noise, In-District Action to be Driven by Pro-Reform Majority Ahead of the impending August recess, pro-immigration forces are on the move with hundreds of grassroots events planned from coast to coast. A number of media outlets today highlight the momentum, unprecedented organization, and...
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Jorge Ramos–Univision’s news anchor and a man who has been called the “Walter Cronkite of Spanish-language news” has an op-ed today at ABC News/Univision blasting the Republican Party for its intransigence on immigration reform. Ramos notes that a couple weeks ago–before Steve King’s latest comments about DREAMers being drug runners...
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MSNBC: Reformers wary as House GOP considers its own ‘path to citizenship’ By Benjy Sarlin Politico: Immigration groups to target House GOP By Anna Palmer Bloomberg: Immigration Supporters Plan to Hunt Down House Members By Julie Bykowicz BuzzFeed: Immigration Reform Activists Prepare Major August Blitz For Republican Support By...
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