Locking Up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant Families from the...
This report focuses on families in immigration detention.
View ArticleFuture for Immigrant Families
Good news as Texas family detention shuts down but advocates worry about future for immigrant families.
View ArticleIllinois Congressman: Immigration Reform Cannot Wait
NPR interview with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois, who wants to bump immigration to the top of the President's agenda.
View ArticleIllinois Congressman: Immigration Reform Cannot Wait
NPR interview with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois, who wants to bump immigration to the top of the President's agenda.
View ArticleDeath of Pedro Tavarez raises questions around immigration detention reform «...
Immigration detention is a profit making business with little transparency to a rapidly growing patchwork of holding centers. Even though the Obama administration has promised reform, it is not...
View ArticleAre children of immigrants becoming needless statistics in the child welfare...
What if I told you you could permanently lose custody of your child because you are undocumented? Or because you do not understand English?
View ArticleAnswer this call to action for immigration reform on November 18th- listen in...
November 18th is a day of National Action for immigration and here is an opportunity for you to take leadership in your community and fight for immigration reform.
View ArticleHuman Rights First report tells us that broad immigration laws redefine bona...
According to a Human Rights First report released last week, since 2001, over 18,000 refugees and asylum seekers who pose no threat to U.S. security have not received protection from the U.S....
View ArticleTheir Future Is Ours
New York Times editorial about the effects of displacement and separation on children of immigrants.
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How many hunger strikes will it take?
From a letter of testimony by Christina Fernandez, a wife of a detainee held at the Reeves County Detention facility: Are they asking for a massacre? Or do they think that we the wives, children,...
View ArticleShocking New York Times article uncovers efforts to conceal immigrant deaths...
Shocking New York Times article uncovers efforts to conceal immigrant deaths in detention.
View ArticleNapolitano: Humanitarian parole granted to certain Haitian orphans
In a late development on Monday, the U.S. governmentannounced it was granting humanitarian paroles to hundreds of Haitian orphans who were waiting to be adopted by Americans before the earthquake.
View ArticleImmigration detention reforms urgently needed in light of “all hell breaking...
Immigration detention is once again revealing fatal flaws, reaffirming the need to not only superficially reform the system as has been promised by the Obama administration, but completely overhaul it...
View ArticleArizona clerics call for immigration reform
Several Arizona religious leaders on Friday invoked Scripture in calling on President Obama and Congress to pass humane immigration reform based on principles of fairness, family unity and due process.
View ArticleLost in America
A writer recalls a Las Vegas family ripped apart by the immigration system—and, ultimately, violence
View ArticleWe need you to vote now @ “Ideas for Change in America” to restore fairness...
We need your vote! Vote to Restore Fairness to our broken immigration system on Change.org’s Ideas for Change in America and take us one step closer to to ensure that 2010 is the year for immigration...
View ArticleFinding immigration reform in Obama’s State of the Union address
Yesterday, President Obama addressed the issue of immigration reform in his State of the Union speech. Many expected a more hard hitting message from the President
View ArticleDeportations to tear apart S.F. family
Immigrants' rights advocates brought forth a family of five Monday to illustrate what they called the human consequences of San Francisco's deportation crackdown: a Muni driver, his Australian wife and...
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How is 2011 faring so far? Ethnic studies and the 14th amendment
At this moment it is very hard to focus on anything but the tragic incident that marked the beginning of this year when a man in Tucson, Arizona opened fire on a public meeting killing 6 people and...
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These Lives Matter: “Detainee Not Found”
Port Isabel Detention Center Guestblogger:Claudia Valenzuela, Associate Director of Litigation for Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center This post is the second in a new series titled...
View ArticleNEW FILM: The Call – A choice no woman should face
Sonia has worked so hard for this: a healthy family and a normal life in an average American town. But on a night that should have been like any other, she is forced to make an impossible choice that...
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