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ACTION ALERT
Urge Napolitano to say no to HB 56
Join the "One Family, One Alabama" campaign to repeal HB 56
Take Action: Tell the federal government to put an end to racial profiling
On Nov. 21, the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice will launch its "One Family, One Alabama" campaign to repeal HB 56, a harsh anti-immigration bill, with the support of a congressional delegation. Show your solidarity with the people of Alabama, and
send a message to the federal government: anti-immigrant attacks and racial profiling have no place in our communities.
Read more about Alabama's HB 56...
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano has told Congress that DHS will not help Alabama police enforce HB56—but she has not taken any steps towards that promise. DHS' Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is still working with Alabama police to detain and deport people, supporting racial profiling. Without clear guidance from Washington D.C., ICE shows no intention of stopping.
Say No to E-Verify w/o Immigration Reform
E-Verify is a flawed system; its expansion will further damage our economy and hurt U.S. workers.
3 ways YOU can help block E-verify
- Call the Capitol @ 202-224-3121
- Send an Email Find an email template with talking points at the Justice for Immigrants website, just scroll down to the "compose message" field
- Share this action alert with your social media networks
Update on Immigration
IMMIGRATION POLICIES MISREPRESENTED
Presente.org responds to Cecilia Munoz’s defense of current immigration policies on “Lost in Detention” on PBS Frontline
Watch the episode here
MISREPRESENTATION: Ms. Munoz has said that half of the almost 400,000 immigrants deported this year were criminals.
FACT: Recent statistics show 78% of those "criminal" immigrants were people with traffic and immigration violations and other non-violent offenses. In the 2011 fiscal year, the Obama administration changed the way it defined "criminal" to include people never convicted of any crime under previous definitions.
MISREPRESENTATION: Ms. Muñoz defended Secure Communities by saying that the Obama administration modified it after listening to community input.
FACT: The Administration’s Secure Communities task force, set up to listen to community concerns, ended in resignations of key members and made no significant changes to the program.
MISREPRESENTATION: Ms. Muñoz stated that the cases of the 300,000 people currently in deportation proceedings would be reviewed, and that low-priority cases like those of DREAM Act students and those with strong ties to the U.S. would be dismissed.8
FACT: The individual case reviews have not yet begun. DREAM Act students are in deportation proceedings as you read this.
Read the full article on Alabama's New Immigration Law...
ALABAMA'S NEW IMMIGRATION LAW
Immigration law author tells farmers: No changes
Oct 4, 2011
Beason and other proponents said the law would help free up jobs for Alabamians in a state suffering through 9.9 percent unemployment.
The farmers said the some of their workers may have been in the country illegally, but they were the only ones willing to do the work.
Read the full article on Alabama's New Immigration Law...
De Leon: Alabama’s Immigration Law Fails Our Future
Oct 6, 2011
Last Friday, close to 2,000 Latino students in Alabama didn’t show up at school. That is roughly five percent of the Latino children in the school system. Their parents kept their children away out of fear – twenty-four hours earlier, Alabama had begun asking students for papers.
Read the full article on Alabama's New Immigration Law...
Prove Citizenship or Lose Clean Water Supply
Oct 10, 2011
Under section 30 of the law, known as HB56, anyone lacking the proper immigration papers is considered to be committing a crime if they try to enter into a "business transaction" with the "state or a political subdivision of the state." Some believe this includes something as basic to life as clean water.
Read the full article on Alabama's New Immigration Law...
Undocumented Immigrant Students get aid
California Governor signs second half of two-part DREAM Act legislation
Oct 8, 2011
Under the new law those same illegal immigrants would be eligible for aid from the University of California, California State university system and the state's 112 community colleges.
They could also apply for Cal Grants, which are cash awards based on academic performance.
Read the full article on California and the DREAM Act...
Deportees risk their lives to be with families
Deportees brave ever-greater risks to get back to their families in the U.S. — the country they consider home.
Oct 2, 2011
"My wife, my son — I have to get back to them," Daniel kept telling himself, from the moment he was arrested in Seattle for driving with an expired license, all the way through the deportation proceeding that delivered him to Mexico in June.
Nothing would deter him from crossing the border again.
Read the full article on deportees separated from their families...
New Policy Re-Prioritizes Deportation
Obama Announces that new immigration enforcement procedure will focus on national security
Aug 18, 2011
Each new and pending deportation case will be individually reviewed and prioritized. High-priority cases, which pose public safety and national security threats, will be expedited, while low-priority cases are eligible for prosecutorial discretion and will most likely be closed.
This new procedure will relieve overburdened immigration court dockets and make better use of limited immigration enforcement resources.
Read more about the new deportation policy...
Senate Democrats on the DREAM Act
In mid April, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and 20 Democratic senators sent a letter to President Obama asking him to come up with a reasonable process for managing requests for protection from deportation for youth who would qualify for the DREAM Act if it became law. The Senators asked that the Obama Administration consider implementing a formal and consistent process for applying for and receiving deferred action and tracking of DREAM Act cases.
Durbin's DREAM Act letter...
SB 1070, One Year Later
One Year Later: A Look at SB 1070 and Copycat Legislation Post-SB 1070...
Undocumented immigrant, experts share struggles
02/16/11 -- Daniela Alulema looked out into the pews of the Church of the Holy Family and asked everyone to think back to when they were 14 years old.
“Now think about what would happen if, all of a sudden, your parents told you tomorrow you were leaving -- ‘We’re going to start a new life,’” she said. “That’s what happened to me when I was 14 years old.”
National Catholic Examiner on undocumented immigrants...
LA bishops: US immigration system 'immoral'
02/10/11 -- In speeches the same day, Los Angeles' cardinal and its coadjutor archbishop talked about immigration in the United States, with one calling some of the rhetoric about the issue "not worthy of the Gospel," and the other saying the current system "is an immoral system that thrives upon the weakness and suffering of those without a voice."
The immorality of the US immigration system...
Confidential Reports Reveal Failure
A Broken System
What is Comprehensive Immigration Reform and how can we improve the immigration system?
This report examines how failures to meet minimum standards affect detainees’ right to due process and to challenge their deportation cases. Also included are suggestions for how the system might be improved. Improve the immigration system, the report...