Results List
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Marchers hit streets calling on Obama to act immediately on federal immigration reform
May 2, 2010 - Chicago Angered by a controversial Arizona immigration law, tens of thousands of protesters, including 50,000 alone in Los Angeles, rallied in cities nationwide demanding President Obama tackle immigration reform immediately.
Resource type: Video
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The Most Memorable Immigration Moments Of 2013
Source: Huffington Post
The Huffington Post's list of the most memorable immigration reform moments from last year featured efforts by several grantees, including United We Dream and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Grantees the National Council of La Raza, America's Voice and the National Immigrant Justice Center were…
Resource type: News
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Immigrant Activists Regroup
Source: The Nation
by Daniel AltschulerOver the past decade, the immigrants' rights movement has become one of this country's strongest grassroots forces. Nationwide, grassroots groups and legislative coalitions have mobilized millions of people to protest punitive enforcement laws, promote legalization for undocumented people and demand access to state…
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Immigrant arrests sever parents, children
Source: Associated Press State & Local Wire
Original Source Brothers Ismael, Luis and Edwin Valeriano are U.S. citizens, but their lives have been upended by the arrest of their father as part of an escalating crackdown on illegal immigrants. In March, the boys' 38-year-old father, Ismael Valeriano, a single parent from Mexico…
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Electronic Immigration Network
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Resource type: Grantee
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Editorial: Stopping Arizona
Source: The New York Times
A fight is brewing over Arizona’s new law that turns all of the state’s Latinos, even legal immigrants and citizens, into criminal suspects. And this is not a local fight. The poison is spreading; there is talk in Texas of passing a version of the…
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The Role of Foundations in Immigrant Rights
The rights of immigrants must be protected and foundations can use their unique strengths to play a leading role such as funding public education and civic engagement, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies' President and CEO, in this speech at the European Foundation Centre Meeting…
Resource type: Speech
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Top Democrat says he'll advance immigration bill
Source: The Washington Post
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISSenate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev. gestures during a news conference on Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP)WASHINGTON -- The top Senate Democrat said Tuesday he'd move to force a…
Resource type: News
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Why Movements Matter
Source: The American Prospect
Paradigm-shifting elections don't shift paradigms if there aren't corresponding social movements for change.By VIVIEN LABATON AND GARA LAMARCHE One thing we now know with certainty, more than two years into Barack Obama's presidency, is that change is an uphill battle. We're already defending hard-won gains on health care…
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Letters - Born in the U.S.A.: Should That Make You a Citizen?
Source: The New York Times
This edition of Letters to the Editor is in response to Peter H. Schuck's op-ed, "Birthright of a Nation" on August 14, 2010. Contributors include Bruce A. Morrison, a former member of Congress who was chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Edith Asibey,…
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