Dec 16, 2013
New America’s Voice Blog Posts Recap Highlight Moments and Best Pictures from 2013 Washington, DC – 2013 was a big year for immigration reform. Over the last year, a deep and diverse coalition has come together to fight for immigration legislation that would create a new roadmap to citizenship for 11...
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El proyecto integral aprobado por el Senado está muy lejos de ser perfecto, le quita la presión de la deportación al indocumentado, pero crea un tortuoso camino a la legalización y ciudadanía. No obstante, esto fue insuficiente para la Cámara de Representantes que rechazó el camino de la Cámara...
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En la actualidad, el único proyecto de ley migratorio aprobado en el pleno de la Cámara Baja fue uno que elimina fondos para el programa de “acción diferida” de 2012 que suspendió por dos años la deportación de ciertos estudiantes indocumentados.
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A picture is worth a thousand words–and we have so many pictures from 2013 that help illustrate the breadth and depth of the fight for immigration reform this year. We’ve pulled together a list of our very favorite pictures here. For a preview, see below: Also read our wrap-up...
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International Business Times by Laura Matthews: Immigration Reform 2013: Conservatives Convinced Boehner Ready To Sell Out After Budget Deal Washington Post by David Nakamura: Budget deal in Congress raises White House hopes on other priorities Washington Post by Reid Wilson: After Senate budget vote, few hopes for a productive...
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Dec 13, 2013
Despite thousands of petitions and an all-night vigil to try and stop his deportation, Ardany Rosales Lemus–a father of two US-citizen children–was deported early today. An statement released by ICE suggested that the agency might have been able to exercise prosecutorial discretion on Ardany’s case, but chose not to. As...
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First in Two Part Series: How the Immigration Movement Gained Strength in 2013 and Will Come Back Stronger in 2014 The movement in support of immigration reform has been growing in size and strength all year, capped by a strong show of moral force at the US Capitol yesterday. ...
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Republicans this year gave Steve King a vote to deport DREAMers, locked pro-reform advocates out of their offices and refused to engage with them, and stalled on immigration reform even though they had the time and have the votes to pass legislation. Meanwhile, House Democrats have introduced their version of the Senate immigration bill, which...
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In a new analysis in the New York Times, Julia Preston captures how the immigration reform movement has emerged as a relentless force that is prepared to hold all parties accountable in 2014. As Preston writes in the New York Times: An immigration overhaul has seemed close to death...
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Also view our year in pictures, here. It has been an amazing year in immigration reform. Over the last year, a deep and diverse coalition has come together to fight for immigration reform–a piece of legislation that could bring 11 million undocumented Americans out of the shadows, stop the separation...
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