Weekly Diaspora: No sleep 'till march on Washington
This Sunday, tens of thousands of people plan to march on the National Mall in Washington, DC in an effort to persuade Congress and the Obama administration to tackle immigration reform in 2010. More...
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Weekly Diaspora: 200,000 March on DC, Call for Immigration Reform Now
By Erin Rosa, Media Consortium bloggerAs the health care debate comes to a close, there’s no better time to introduce comprehensiveimmigration reform. Hundreds of thousands of immigrant rights...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: The game plan for immigration reform
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), started a hubbub among comprehensive immigration reform advocateslast week when he expressed to members of the Capitol press corps that progressive immigration legislation...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: Local laws target immigrants -- activists take to the streets
While immigrant rights groups pressure the federal government via high-profile marches and rallies, anti-immigration forces are pushing punitive laws on the state and local levels. Thousands of...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: What the #$@!, Arizona?
While federal lawmakers cautiously mull over the possibility of dropping a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year, legislators in Arizona have passed yet another law that criminalizes...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: Boycotting Arizona
Anti-immigrant fervor could be more costly than Arizona lawmakers expected. Thanks to SB 1070, a new law that requires immigrants to carry papers at all times to prove their legal status, the state has...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: Zero hour approaching for federal immigration reform
The countdown is on. Half a million supporters of comprehensive immigration reform rallied across the country on May 1 to protest SB 1070, Arizona’s prohibitive new anti-immigration law and ratchet up...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: More hypocrisy in Arizona
After passing what is arguably the harshest immigration law in the country—SB 1070 forces local police to adhere to detain someone if there is “responsible suspicion” that they are undocumented—Arizona...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: Obama deploys troops to border amid rising civil disobedience
President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that he would be deploying 1,200 National Guard troops to the Mexican border to beef up security along the Río Bravo. This surprise move has garnered...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: Thousands protest SB1070; Arizona gov. braces for lawsuits
Over Memorial Day weekend, tens of thousands of people marched in Phoenix, AZ to protest SB1070, a law that immigrants to carry papers at all times and makes it possible for any police officer to...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: Border patrol gone wild
A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 14-year-old Mexican boy on June 7. At RaceWire, Julianne Hing reports that “Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca [was] on the Mexican side of the El Paso-Juarez...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: White House likely to sue over Arizona's racial profiling law
Hope for a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year has fallen by the wayside, but the Obama administration is rallying for one last hurrah before mid-term elections in November. Late last week,...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: Obama to Congress: It's time to support immigration reform
This morning, President Barack Obama condemned the ”failure by those of us in Washington to fix a broken immigration system” and called on Congress to support reform this year.“This administration will...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: Department of Justice challenges Arizona's SB 1070 -- what's...
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed suit against the state of Arizona in an effort to overturn a stringent anti-immigration law passed in April. The move is a breath of fresh air for immigrant...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: Suing, protesting and boycotting Arizona over SB 1070
Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s notorious anti-immigrant law, is set to go into effect on July 29. With days left to go, Organizers are in a race against the clock to minimize the bill’s impact on...
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