Taking a page from civil rights protesters of another era, eight young adults in San Antonio are waging a hunger strike to try to pressure Congress to pass the DREAM Act, a law they say is their only real shot at having a successful future in the United States,...
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Nov 17, 2010
The movement for immigration reform gained momentum this week as young immigration activists staged sit-ins and press conferences – from Santa Ana to the nation's capital – to tout the possibility of action during the lame duck session of Congress.
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Last Friday we asked for help to make sure that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his volunteer "army" would not be intimidating Latino voters out of participating in the cornerstone of our democracy: voting. We asked our supporters to send a message to the DOJ to send monitors down to...
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Oct 27, 2010
Fundamental change usually proceeds from the bottom up...As a Times/USC poll reported Sunday, nearly half of California's likely voters have a favorable view of immigrants, including those without papers.
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Today America's Voice hosted a press call to highlight various "Get Out the Vote" efforts, totalling more than $5.4 million, to engage and mobilize over one million Latino, Asian, and immigrant voters in a number of battleground states-- just in time for the mid-term elections.
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Oct 11, 2010
As the prospect of Congress passing an overhaul of immigration law wanes, immigration advocacy groups are shifting their sights from the U.S. Capitol and focusing on their local communities.
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) will be uniting with progressive leaders from a broad coalition of organizations working for immigration reform, justice, jobs, and quality education at the One Nation Rally this Saturday, October 2, in Washington DC.
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Immigrant advocates are asking Maine's two U.S. senators to intervene on behalf of a Portland resident facing deportation to Guatemala.
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Aug 20, 2010
Yesterday, as part of our two week campaign to stop the deportation of Ivan Nikolov, America's Voice joined Matias Ramos, Tania Unzueta, Dulce Matuz and other DREAM activists to deliver over 6,000 signed petitions, along with a letter of support from Senator Carl Levin, letters from family and friends,...
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Yesterday afternoon, local and national advocates held a media call to highlight Ivan NIkolov's struggle to remain in the country he knows as home, and call on DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief John Morton to prevent his deportation.
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