Call today for the New York State DREAM Act. If you’ve made a call, please keep calling! Urge  the Governor to include DREAM—and specifically an expanded Tuition Assistance Program—in his budget! CALL TO DREAM! PLEASE take 2 minutes to call the Governor by FRIDAY!! English: 1-866-572-7042 Spanish: 1-866-587-3023 Suggested script: “Hi I’m calling to...
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Last year, i wrote about the bigotry problem in the Republican Party in Mississippi. A surprising number of Republican voters in that state essentially told pollsters that they were prejudiced against non-whites. Sad, but let’s face it, that is Mississippi. This week’s primary in Illinois prompted a comprehensive poll of Republican voting by Public...
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With the Republican Party doing dismally among the key Latino electorate, you might expect party leaders to make peace overtures to them. Instead, the most prominent Congressional Republican on immigration, Lamar Smith, came out today on Fox and attacked the DREAM Act, which is universally popular among Latinos. Smith head the Judiciary Committee of...
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The fight against Alabama’s anti-immigrant law went international last week. Human rights advocates traveled to Korea to demand that automaker Hyundai speak out against the new law. Advocates are also calling on Daimler and Honda to do the same. The car industry has been a growing part of Alabama’s economy, employing 45,000 workers.  It...
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Great op-ed piece in the New York Times from Peter Behrens on why St. Patrick should shelter all imigrants, not just the Irish: It’s About Immigrants, Not Irishness By PETER BEHRENS Published: March 16, 2012 ON this side of the Atlantic, St. Patrick’s Day has become a boisterous, often bogus, celebration of America’s Irish...
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On March 14, `1,300 New York immigrants assembled in Albany for a spirited rally and lobby day for the New York State DREAM Act and a broad immigrant rights platform. Chung Wha Hong, Executive Director of both the New York Immigration Coalition and the NYSIAF told the cheering crowd that by passing the NYS...
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Today The New York Times endorsed the New York State DREAM Act in an editorial: The Dream Act is an aptly named-but-star-crossed piece of federal legislation that would open a path to legal status for young unauthorized immigrants who pursue college degrees or serve in the military. Its goal is to help ambitious youths...
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Today’s New York Times has an editorial, When States Put Out the Unwelcome Mat, looking at the use of state laws to attack immigrants. Here is an excerpt: There is one area, besides copper mining and home foreclosures, where Arizona is a national leader. It’s at the front of a movement by states and...
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Today’s New York Times reports on the DREAM Fellowsips for DREAM Act-eligible students. Kudos to the New York Immigration Coalition for starting this remarkable program: Among all the numbers that populate Nataly Lopez’s life — including phone digits, addresses, pass codes and friends’ ages — there is one that she never forgets: the cost...
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When the legal illiterates in the Alabama legislature passed their worst-in-the-nation law against immigrants and Latinos they assured voters the law would stand up in court. Every month brings news of a court blocking yet another part of the law as unconstitutional. Yesterday two more sections were enjoined by the Eleventh Circuit Court of...
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