Former employees gathered today outside the Columbia Heights Chipotle in Washington, DC, to protest the restaurant's unfair labor practices, demanding apologies, explanations, and owed wages. Continue »
Looks like the hard work and persistence of some New York-based dreamers (and around the country, really) paid off. New York now joins Maryland, California, Illinois, and Connecticut as states that are trying to push state versions of the DREAM Act, a federal bill that sadly wasn't passed... Continue »
If you Google the terms "Jeff Flake" and "immigration," you'll see numerous articles about a strong advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. But, once it became clear that Flake was running for Senate in Arizona's GOP primary, that began to change. Continue »
On the last stop of his visit to Latin America, in El Salvador, President Barack Obama declared that "we have to make sure that we've got a legal immigration system that is effective and is not frustrating for families, doesn't divide families." Interesting enough, it almost seemed as if... Continue »
Hostility from a key voting demographic, weakened ties between law enforcement and communities, and boycotts that chill the local economy have all been consequences of Arizona's decision to pass the infamously stringent SB 1070 anti-immigration bill last year...Yet apparently the state of Georgia wants in on the action, with... Continue »
As it turns out, it wasn't over. Last week, America's Voice collected almost 4,800 signatures to investigate Kansas Rep. Virgil Peck's comments about shooting undocumented immigrants from helicopters. Continue »
Last week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released their December 2010 report revealing namely that detention is a disproportionate measure and recommends an end to the 287(g) program Continue »
Last week, New York State DREAMers went to Albany to lobbying members of the New York State Legislature for a state DREAM Act. Albor Ruiz from the New York Daily News profiled César Vargas and his work on DREAM. Continue »
The news out of Arizona is that its Republican-dominated state Senate rejected the latest series of harsh immigration measures. For once, the Arizona GOP said no to their leader, State Sen. Russell Pearce, who wanted to enact a package that has been called SB 1070 on steroids... Continue »
Since Christmas, Mario Aregullin has been sitting in a Georgia detention center. Though he's been in the United States since he was a baby, he was forced to spend Christmas, New Year's, and Valentine's Day away from his family, friends, and his bride-to-be, Brandi. Continue »