Category: Immigration

Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are: National Coming Out of the Shadows Day

March 10, 2010 by Vivirlatino

For Numbers USA and the Tea Party Divide and Conquer Politics is Their Immigration Strategy

March 9, 2010 by Vivirlatino

In response to the March 21st pro-reform March for America being called by the Reform Immigration FOR America coalition, Numbers USA, The John Tanton network organization that prides itself on having a mission to reduce all immigration, and the growing Tea Party movement, is organizing four days of counter action. Their action is named “S.T.O.P Amnesty in Four Days”. S.T.O.P stands for “Speak-out Teach-in, Organize and Protect U.S. Workers” and each day will focus on a different organizing strategy.

Obama’s Real I.C.E.(y) Numbers Still Break Records and Familias

March 9, 2010 by Vivirlatino

Yesterday was a big day in immigration “reform” news. President Barack Obama and Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) were supposed to meet to show a united front on moving the issue forward. Schumer has been facing pressure to produce something ever since he delayed pushing legislation back in September of last year in search of more supporters. Advocates have been told over that he’s been working on something but details have been hardly forthcoming since the NY Senator said that part of his proposal would include a biometric identity card.

FIRM Calls for Immigration Reform to Include ALL Families

March 8, 2010 by Vivirlatino

A few days after the #LGBTCIR summit, The Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), an organization inside the RI4A Coalition, stepped up publicly to ask that all families be included in Comprehensive Immigration Reform, including gay, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender families. Specifically, FIRM, a project of the Center for Community Change, came out in favor of including Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) language, language that was specifically excluded from Congressman’s Gutierrez’s CIR ASAP proposal.

National Council of la Raza Wants to Remind Obama About Something

March 3, 2010 by Vivirlatino

Seems like the National Council of la Raza is starting a new action center and at the heart of it is reminding President Obama about all those promises he made in order to earn the Latino vote, especially his promises on immigration reform.