***Livestreaming Panel from Netroots Nation: Saturday June 9th at 10:30 AM Eastern*** ***http://www.livestream.com/fstv1***   Washington, DC – America’s Voice is convening a panel at Netroots Nation 2012, entitled, “Latino Vote Matters: Immigration, Power, and an Interactive Look at the Map” on Saturday, June 9th, at 10:30AM.  The panel, viewable... Continue »
It was this time last year that the Department of Homeland Security announced a new deportation policy designed to deport only the “worst of the worst” criminal immigrants while sparing low-priority immigrants.  Undocumented individuals who were students, were longtime residents, had families in the US, had strong ties to... Continue »
Debido a que la semana próxima podrían ser deportadas, las mujeres pidieron que las autoridades inmigratorias federales ejerzan lo que se conoce como “discreción de la fiscalía”, es decir, la posibilidad que tiene un fiscal inmigratorio de “congelar” un caso si considera que la deportación no es una prioridad. Continue »
Unveiled: our brand-new interactive online voter map illustrating how crucial the Latino vote will be in key battleground states this November Continue »
As you know, we’ve been publishing a series of posts from the DREAMers of the Campaign for an American DREAM.  In March, they set off from San Francisco to begin a 3,000-mile, 8-month+ walk to Washington, DC to call attention to the DREAM Act and the need for immigration reform. This week,... Continue »
The New York Times’ immigration-beat reporter, Julia Preston, wrote an important article today which confirms what we’ve known to be true: the Obama administration’s prosecutorial discretion program is not working: After seven months of an ambitious review by the Obama administration of all deportations before the nation’s immigration courts, very few... Continue »