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Immigrants Rights

Commentary on bipartisan Senate proposal for immigration reform
Masao Suzuki | San José, CA | 1/28/13
On Monday, January 28, a bipartisan group of eight Senators, four Democrats and four Republicans, announced a framework for “Comprehensive Immigration...
comprehensive immigration reform, immigration reform, legalization for all
Anti-immigrant Florida Congressman Ross confronted
Staff | Tampa, FL | 1/28/13
Student groups from the Tampa Bay area and neighboring Polk County came together, Jan. 24, to demand answers from Congressman Dennis Ross and protest his...
Congressman Dennis Ross, guest worker, Immigrant Rights Movement, Racism
Call-in day tells MN politicians: We demand genuine, progressive immigration reform
Staff | Minneapolis, MN | 1/17/13
As the struggle over immigration reform looms in Washington D.C., immigrant rights activists in Minnesota are pressing their senators and representatives...
e-verify, guest worker, immigrant rights, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition
MN immigrant rights protesters say: Stop Sheriff Stanek’s deportation assembly line!
Staff | Minneapolis, MN | 1/14/13
On Jan. 12, immigrant rights activists protested outside the Hennepin County jail, demanding that Sheriff Stanek stop using the jail as a deportation...
deportations, MIRAc, No More Deportations campaign, Secure Communities, Sheriff Stanek
Family of immigrant rights activist Erika Andiola raided by ICE
Marisol Marquez | Tampa, FL | 1/11/13
Around midnight Jan. 10, the home of well-known Arizona immigrant rights activist Erika Andiola was raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
deportations, Erika Andiola, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Immigrant communities fought back against 287(g) and won
Marisol Marquez | Tampa, FL | 1/10/13
While we are celebrating the demolishing of 287(g) today, the struggle continues to end the Secure Communities deportation program and all similar...
287(g), deportations, Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE), Secure Communities
Undocumented youth stand up, fight back
Staff | Kansas City, MO | 12/05/12
600 students and youth attended the United We Dream National Congress here, the weekend of Nov. 30.
Anti-Racism, Dream Defenders, immigrant rights, undocumented, United We Dream
Republicans propose repressive, restrictive immigration bills in lame duck session
Brad Sigal | Washington D.C. | 11/29/12
Reeling from their loss in the presidential election, in which Latinos overwhelmingly voted against Mitt Romney in no small part due to Republicans’...
Achieve Act, DREAM Act, immigration reform
UWM students say 'No justice, no pizza!'
Staff | Milwaukee, WI | 11/19/12
The UWM Boycott Coalition for Workers Rights, made up of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES), AFSCME, Milwaukee...
Palermo's Pizza, strike
Anti-Latino laws ignite the South
Lamont Lilly | United States | 10/14/12
In its original format, Alabama’s Beason-Hammon Act granted school resource officers the right to badger fifth-graders on the basis of their immigration...
Anti-Latino Laws, immigrant rights, Racism, Southern labor movement