Yesterday, the President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis sat down to talk about a key workers' rights issue: comprehensive immigration reform. The duo made a clear and compelling case for reform that legalizes undocumented immigrants, and explained why comprehensive reform is in...
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With today's "graduation ceremony" for DREAM activists in Washington, questions resurface about how the bill legalizing undocumented young people will move forward. As the border prepares to receive National Guard troops, controversy remains over the death of Anastasio Hernández in Border Guard custody; and the list released in Utah...
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From the America's Voice team, Adam Luna will be speaking Thursday at 3pm on a panel with Arizona State Rep Kyrsten Sinema entitled "Immigration Reform's Strange Bedfellows: The Surprising Consensus that Reform will Improve American Jobs and Bolster Our Economy," and yours truly will be on a panel Saturday...
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Editor's note: CNN reports on today's DC DREAM Act mobilization, in "Students Lobby to Become Citizens." America's Voice is a proud founding partner of the new DREAM Now letter series, which launched today, July 19th, 2010. We expect the campaign to educate the public and our leaders in Washington...
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AMERICA'S VOICE SCRATCH CARD GIVEAWAY!
This year, in the spirit of Vegas, America’s Voice customized our very own scratch cards to inform you and other Netroots Nation go-ers about the DREAM Act – legislation... Continue »
A national poll of 1,008 adults, conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for First Focus in June 2010, shows strong support for passing the DREAM Act, and for keeping decisions about in-state tuition rules regarding undocumented immigrants in the hands of the states. Support for the DREAM Act cuts...
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If last week's House hearing on "The Ethical Imperative for Immigration Reform" is any indication, Republicans have chosen to ignore the conservative Evangelicals who support immigration reform and rely on part-time anti-immigrant "experts" instead. When Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel and Bishop...
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Jul 18, 2010
18/07/10 a 9:03pm por Maribel Hastings Activista latino pide pronunciamiento de su Iglesia Mormona sobre inmigración Por Maribel Hastings – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tony Yapias, director del Proyecto Latino de Utah, ha recibido más de 1,500 llamadas desde que se reveló la lista de presuntos indocumentados en ese estado,...
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18/07/10 a 7:20pm por Maribel Hastings Por Maribel Hastings – WASHINGTON, D.C. – El decimosexto operativo del alguacil Joe Arpaio, con vehículo blindado con metralleta en el desierto de Arizona, coincidió con la primera audiencia sobre la SB1070 en un tribunal federal de Phoenix, aunque él asegura que no...
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Jul 16, 2010
America's Voice Education Fund has released a new report detailing the long, disturbing and ineffective record of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ -- the "Model Sheriff" for Arizona's SB 1070, who has a record of failed crime-fighting tactics, civil rights abuses, and creating terror in the communities...
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