After a town hall earlier this month in which Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) referred to immigrants as “anchor babies,” members of the Wisconsin immigrant-rights group Voces de la Frontera (and their youth arm, Youth Empowered in the Struggle), collected and delivered 7,226 petitions asking Ryan to apologize for using...
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New York Times: In Immigration Bill Talks, House Group Raises Voice By Ashley Parker Daily Beast: Immigration’s Odd Couple: Two Puerto Rican Congressmen Forge a Deal By Sandra McElwaine The Hill: Issa tapped for major role on immigration By Jennifer Martinez The Hill: Senate Judiciary panel to debate high-skilled...
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Por Maribel Hastings, asesora ejecutiva de America’s Voice: WASHINGTON, DC – El proyecto bipartidista de reforma migratoria S. 744 pasó la primera prueba de fuego al iniciarse el pasado jueves el debate de enmiendas en el panel Judicial del Senado esquivando los primeros intentos republicanos por aniquilar el corazón...
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Ben Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP, posted this great article on African Americans and immigration reform at Huffington Post today. It’s entitled “No Second Class Families,” and you can read an excerpt of it below: African Americans have spent much of our history fighting for equal treatment....
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Virtually all of the GOP’s top-tier potential candidates for president in 2016—Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul—are supporters of immigration reform. For whoever runs, Florida will be a crucial, must-win state. And Florida supports immigration reform too. A new poll released this week by the Public Policy...
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This morning we wrote about how this Sunday–Mothers’ Day–is the fifth anniversary of Postville, Iowa, a brutal immigration raid that led to hundreds of deportations, untold numbers of separated families, and one devastated community. Today, advocates and allies in Iowa are commemorating the Iowa raid, sending letters to their...
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Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the eleventh in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Moderated by Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director at America’s Voice Education Fund, the call featured Marielena Hincapié, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center; Pramila Jayapal, Co-Chair of the We Belong...
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First Day of SJC Markup; Mother’s Day; and Remembering the Tragedy of the Postville (IA) Raid Five Years Later Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the eleventh in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Moderated by Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director at...
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Cross-posted at Latino Decisions, Latino Vote Matters, and Daily Kos: Discussions about immigration reform largely focus on immigrants as workers. In fact, immigrants come to the U.S. for both work and family reasons. Understanding the factors that drive a decision to immigrate—and how immigrants organize their lives in the...
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