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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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The Time is Now, and immigration reform advocates are already gathering on Capitol Hill to meet with their legislators and members of Congress! The rally on the Capitol Lawn starts at 3 PM EST, check out the livestream and updates from Twitter here: http://act.americasvoiceonline.org/page/content/Virtual-Rally-Toolkit/ Wall Street Journal: Senate Plan Sets...
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Today the Progressive States Network, leading national group of pro-immigrant state legislators, announced that state lawmakers from 16 different states have either introduced or plan to introduce resolutions in support of comprehensive immigration reform. As State Senator Angela Giron (Colorado), Chair of the National Immigration Working Group said: The fact that...
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Yesterday the polling group Public Opinion Strategies (POS) released the results of “a set of special focus groups” conducted with Hispanic voters in Las Vegas, NV, and posted the first of what will be a series of blog posts on its findings. When the Nevada Latinos were asked what they thought...
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National Journal: The Rubio Trap By Fawn Johnson and Shane Goldmacher National Journal: 5 Senate Staffers to Watch on Immigration By Rebecca Kaplan ABC/Univision: 4 Arguments Against a Long Wait for Citizenship By Ted Hesson Yahoo News: Rubio seeks to assure GOP that immigration overhaul will create toughest enforcement...
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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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This next few days will be pivotal in the effort to reform immigration. There’s a major rally in front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, April 10. And we’re expecting to see actual legislation soon–with language from both the House and Senate that includes a path to citizenship. But Ted...
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