Actions Today in North Carolina and 27 More Congressional Offices Across the Country Remind Key Republicans What’s At Stake for Them and Their Party if They Continue Blocking a Vote on Immigration Reform RALEIGH, NC – At 4:05pm today, Dudley resident Angelita Morrisroe was arrested by the Raleigh Police at... Continue »
Immigration reform advocates are taking over 28 key Republican House district offices today, to highlight the one-year anniversary of House Republicans giving Steve King a vote to deport DREAMers – while taking no action on immigration reform.   View some of the amazing pictures of what’s been going on around the country today:... Continue »
The following is a press release from United Farm Workers and the Alliance for Citizenship: Pro-Immigration Movement Marks One-Year Anniversary of First House Vote to Deport DREAMers with Rallies and Occupations of Key House Republican Offices Across the Country Washington, DC – It’s been nearly a year since the... Continue »
Immigration reform advocates are taking over 28 key Republican House district offices today, to highlight the one-year anniversary of House Republicans giving Steve King a vote to deport DREAMers — while taking no action on immigration reform.  Online, the physical takeovers are being echoed by online ads with five different local newspapers,... Continue »
Outside a fundraiser headlined by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) for Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) today, local leaders staged a rally to protest the fact that these three House Republicans are key obstacles standing in the way of immigration reform that would keep... Continue »
Latino and Immigrant Leaders Protest Mike Coffman, John Boehner and Eric Cantor at Denver Fundraiser for Holding Immigration Reform Vote Hostage Outside a fundraiser headlined by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) for Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) today, local leaders staged a rally to... Continue »
The AFL-CIO has begun projecting a giant video asking President Obama to stop deportations  on the exterior of its building, just blocks away from the White House.  Casa de Maryland, Make the Road New York, and others conducted an act of civil disobedience today outside the White House, where some dozen... Continue »
Today, dozens of advocates — including a number of youth — conducted an act of civil disobedience on Capitol Hill, sitting down until they were arrested while demanding that Congress take action on immigration reform. The weather was torrential, but that didn’t stop them. Watch video of the civil... Continue »
Check out the photos from this action with We Belong Together, NDLON, and National People’s Action yesterday: (Hint: there’s more to come later this week!) Continue »
Immigration reform advocates outside Kevin McCarthy‘s office weren’t the only ones demonstrating demonstrating for reform yesterday.  In Oregon, farmworkers, students, faith leaders, and labor leaders with Pineros y Campensinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), Oregon Action, Causa Oregon, and Rural Organizing Project held an act of civil disobedience inside Rep. Greg Walden... Continue »