Month: March 2013

The botched Jeb Bush media tour and related controversy over his immigration positioning dominated this week’s immigration news.  But the debate also clarified the fact that a road to earned citizenship is already the mainstream position on immigration reform. As Mayor Julián Castro and Frank Sharry remind us, citizenship... Continue »

March 2013 | Download PDF here. A majority of Americans agree that Congress should pass an immigration law with a path to citizenship for immigrants here without papers.  For this proposal to succeed, it has to be as inclusive and accessible as possible.  Following are some of the key... Continue »

Cross-posted at Huffington Post. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to…be part of a permanent underclass in American society…”? Oops. Wrong America. While the italicized words above are mine, the opening words come from the inspiring poem by Emma Lazarus. Inscribed on the pedestal of... Continue »

The Keeping Families Together Bus Tour is now well underway, with busfuls of immigrant families across the nation traveling around to key Congressional districts, asking the Congress members to support immigration reform. Georgia has just completed its bus tour, Oregon yesterday had a powerful kickoff with over a hundred... Continue »

Nueva York, 6 Mar (Notimex).- Presidentes de tres de las universidades más destacadas en Estados Unidos publicaron hoy una carta en que piden a mil 200 de sus colegas se unan en la promoción de una reforma migratoria integral que atraiga y retenga a estudiantes extranjeros destacados.   Continue »