In Chicago today, families torn apart by the US immigration system gathered to launch the Keeping Families Together Story Tour, which will highlight the voices of those who have been separated from loved ones due to deportation. Over the next three weeks, more than 500 family members will join...
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Last Friday, the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition, the Border Network for Human Rights, and other partner organizations held a Reform Immigration for Texas Alliance march, in which 2,000 people came from all over Texas to march in favor of immigration reform. Watch video of their protest here. As an...
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Happening in the U.S. House of Representatives this week are not one, not two, but three subcommittee hearings on immigration-related topics, spanned across two different committees (Homeland Security and Judiciary). All House Committees are, of course, currently controlled by Republicans. Unlike the hearings of the last few weeks, these next...
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POLITICO reports that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) endorsed a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants on Friday saying: We just have a broken system. And to me, if somebody wants to come in and live the American dream and work hard…we should have a system that works and...
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This weekend, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and one of the key players in the effort to pass immigration reform, appeared on CNN’s State of the Union. He expressed hope that a reform bill can be passed, noting “The time is now.” Chairman Leahy...
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In big news from this weekend, Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker has joined other pro-immigration reform Republicans in supporting a path to citizenship. Sen. John McCain appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” to talk about how Republicans shouldn’t fear getting primaried if they support immigration reform. And Frank Sharry,...
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America’s Voice Executive Director Frank Sharry appeared on Al Punto with Jorge Ramos yesterday, along with Jorge Mario Cabrera of CHIRLA and Katherine Vargas of the National Immigration Forum, to talk about immigration reform with a path to citizenship, along with the challenges and politics that accompany the issue....
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The Colorado ASSET legislation–a state tuition bill which would allow young immigrants living in Colorado to pay in-state tuition for college–has just passed an initial vote in the Senate with three Republican members supporting! Democrats hold enough of a majority in the Colorado Senate to not have needed any...
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Momentum is building each day for immigration reform, with a full-throated legislative debate set to start next month. Today, America’s Voice Education Fund and fellow immigration experts held the first in a series of weekly press briefings, or Immigration Reform “Office Hours.” Each week, a different and diverse group of speakers...
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This afternoon the Washington Post published an article “Immigrants, advocates grow impatient with Obama on pace of changes to laws“, which explores the frustration immigration advocates have for the Administration’s record-breaking deportations. From the article: The anger at President Obama’s deportation polices among some of his otherwise most ardent...
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