What we must do next is move more Latino children through college. (Only 16 percent of Latinos between age 25 and 29 have a college degree.) And that includes children of illegal immigrants.
Last week, rallies were held in several cities to urge Congress to embrace this goal.
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The Reform Immigration for America coalition plans a large rally in support of comprehensive immigration reform and immigrants rights on Monday, October 12, 2009, 7:00 PM, at Holy Redeemer Church, 1721 Junction Street, Detroit, Michigan.
The event will support a delegation of leaders from Michigan traveling to Washington DC for...
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A clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los Angeles is firing about 1,800 immigrant employees in the coming days — more than a quarter of its work force — after a federal investigation turned up irregularities in the identity documents the workers presented when they were...
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Sep 28, 2009
There's no doubt this country needs comprehensive immigration reform at the national level. But what we don't need is another back-door effort conscripting local authorities to take on immigration enforcement duties that ought to be handled by federal authorities.
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Constituent-lawmaker relations have been strained lately, marked most vocally by enraged citizens at raucous town hall meetings in August.
Some people are still protesting. But others are praying.
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Elizabeth Pineda climbs out from bed, her 4-year-old son Adrian asleep nearby. She lays out a tiny pair of shorts and a white T-shirt for his first day of school, gathers her purse and tiptoes outside. Her cousin will get the boy up and off to class in a...
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Several religious leaders are inviting people of faith to a program tonight about the need for compassionate immigration reform in the United States.
"An Evening of Compassion" at Polytechnic United Methodist Church will include a prayer vigil and a documentary, Made in LA, which focuses on three immigrant workers in...
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The head of the nation's leading Latino legal advocacy group said if comprehensive immigration legislation seems unlikely in 2010, Congress should make down payments by passing smaller-scale reforms.
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Sep 25, 2009
Faith leaders are joining forces to re-energize the push for comprehensive immigration reform. At a September 22 event organized by the Center for American Progress, Los Angeles Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony and Rabbi Jack Moline, director of public policy for the Rabbinical Assembly, urged new religious activism...
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On the morning of Jan. 28, federal agents knocked on Shirley Tan's door, showed her a deportation letter and put her in handcuffs.
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