By Rachel LaBruyere. As I type the Senate Finance Committee is considering amendments to the healthcare reform bill, a lot of which contain bad anti-immigrant measures, restricting immigrants’ access to healthcare. We need everyone to call and let the Senate know that we are watching and that they cannot keep playing politics and scapegoating immigrants. […]
By Rachel LaBruyere September 11th – 13th, the Reform Immigration FOR America campaign was in Orlando, Fl, working with youth organizers who are fighting for comprehensive immigration reform. For a full look into the training, read this post on the Standing FIRM blog. Below is a powerful video created by one of the brothers of […]
By Rachel LaBruyere, originally posted at Standing FIRM. Recently, I posted on a new documentary called “In the Shadow of the Raid” and today, two new documentaries were brought to my attention (one from a blog commentor and one from a twitter follower). They both look like great films. Trailers are below: “Citizen Me: The […]
By Maurice Belanger, originally posted at ImmPolitic Blog. It was not so long ago that the INS, now USCIS, was a paper-based organization. Records were kept on paper, got shuffled around among offices, and frequently were lost, leading to the great frustration of its customers, mostly immigrants and their families and employers. Last week, USCIS […]
By Ali Noorani, orginally posted on ImmPolitic blog and on the Huffington Post. As we predicted, the politics of immigration have been dragged into the politics of health insurance reform. It is now crystal clear that no issue of importance can be determined smoothly and comprehensively as long as 12,000,000 people live, work and raise […]
By Michele Waslin, originally posted at Immigration Impact. The myth that immigration is bad for U.S. workers has sullied the immigration debate for far too long. A new report by the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI), “Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class: 2009 Edition,” sets the […]
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