The Senate Gang of 8 immigration bill has been released, a number of hearings have been held, and markup is scheduled to start in a few weeks. Meanwhile, the strength of the pro-immigration reform movement continues to demonstrate its power–and the movement is growing every day. This morning, Grover...
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More than 100,000 immigrant families and their supporters arrived from more than 30 states to fill the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, demanding that Congress act now to pass immigration reform legislation that provides a clear and direct path to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million...
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Thousands of activists and advocates are coming from all over the nation to Washington, DC today to lobby Congressmembers for immigration reform–and participate in a huge rally for immigration on Capitol Hill. The action’s already started, with Congress visits to legislators. Follow live updates on our Twitter list, or...
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Video will be live Wednesday, April 10, 3 PM to 6 PM ET. Also please check out the event website www.citizenship-now.org, , and our Twitter and Facebook for live updates. UPDATE: The rally is also being broadcast by CSPAN 3, which can be seen online here. Live streaming by Ustream
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On Wednesday, April 10, tens of thousands of community, labor and immigrant rights supporters and immigrant families will converge on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, urging Congress to pass common sense immigration reform in 2013 that includes a clear and direct path to citizenship for the nation’s...
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Lots of news this week, which started out with the business-and-labor agreement on immigration reform and continued with Marco Rubio’s insistence on slowing down an immigration bill. Here’s a roundup of the news you might’ve missed: New polling by Small Business Majority shows that business owners around the U.S. support immigration...
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It’s Easter Recess for Congressmembers, who are back at home holding town halls, meeting with constituents–and being served petitions with tens of thousands of local signers all demanding immigration reform. A coalition of immigrant-rights groups, in conjunction with local organizations, have collected more than 40,000 petitions from immigration reform...
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SEIU will begin to air $300,000 in ads nationwide on Wednesday, calling for immigration reform with a path to citizenship. The ad is part of a seven-figure television ad campaign from SEIU, according to the Washington Post. As the ad intones: Our immigration system is broken, and Congress has a chance...
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Yesterday, we wrote about and posted pictures from the “people’s hearing” for immigration reform on the Hill. Today, Julia Preston has a great piece in the New York Times on the grassroots push for immigration legislation and how this year’s approach differs from the backroom nature of previous attempts at...
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