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Immigrant Women RoundtableCreated about 4 months ago
Basta YA! Enough is Enough! Stop the raids!Created on August 22, 2008 at 1:26pm
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Did you see yesterday's Chicago SunTimes?
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Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Post is up about todays rally for rigo and Chicago City resolution vote - with video and photos
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Hundreds of youth and community members rallied this morning to support Rigo Padilla , an undocumented student who has lived in Chicago since he was six years old, and other undocumented immigrant youth. ...
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Will you answer the call to action?
A call to reform immigration for America! We will be hosting a virtual town hall with Rep. Luis Gutierrez to
discuss the principles of progressive immigration reform, and you can be a part of it!
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On November 18 at 8:00 PM Eastern time/5:00 PM Pacific, all across the country people are hosting house parties with their families, friends, neighbors, churches, classmates and anyone else who supports comprehensive immigration reform for America.
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Dobbs Update: Video of Lou Dobbs resignation from CNN
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From the November 11 edition of CNN's The Lou Dobbs Show...
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Tonight will be Lou Dobbs last show on CNN!!
Appears that CNN has recognized that hate mongering and scapegoating is not appropriate for a mainstream news outlet.
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Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN.
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Criminals are the biggest benefactors when immigrants fear the police.
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On March 12, Juan Garcia, a 53-year-old homeless man, was brutally murdered in an alley off 9th and Alvarado streets in the Westlake District, just west of downtown Los Angeles. At first, the police were stumped; there were no known witnesses and few clues. ...
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In the middle of the crowd, there was a girl who had come to D.C. with
her mother from a community in Ohio, devastated by the deportations
tearing families apart. She stood holding a large drawing of her father
and her friends’ parents who have been taken away. She came to
Washington wanting to give her drawing to the pres...ident’s children, to
ask them to tell their father, to plead with them, that she wanted her
own father back.
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New America Media is a nationwide association of over 700 ethnic media organizations representing the development of a more inclusive journalism. Founded in 1996 by Pacific News Service, New America Media ...
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Alert! Tell Speaker Pelosi to end 5 year bar for legal immigrants to access federally sponsored health care coverage!
Immigrants, who work hard and pays taxes, should have the same rights and benefits as anyone else, including access to the same health care programs enjoyed by other Americans.
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Healthcare Discrimination Speaker Nancy Pelosi needs to hear from you. Send her a message that barring legal immigrants from Medicaid for five years is not fair.
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Now is the time. Lets fix it.
"We simply cannot wait any longer for a bill that keeps our families together, protects our workers and allows a pathway to legalization for those who have earned it. It is time we had a workable plan making its way through Congress that recognizes the vast contributions of immigrants to t...his country and that honors the American Dream. I am preparing such a plan, and will introduce it in the near future. It will include the following core principles:"
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At a rally today on the west lawn of the United States Capitol, U.S. Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) addressed a crowd of thousands, including hundreds from Illinois, who demanded change to our nation's broken immigration system.
See MoreIllinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Daily Kos offers his 25 key principles for progressive #immigration reform and we couldn't agree more
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On Tuesday Oct 13th, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus led by Rep. Luis Gutierrez(Il-D), will be joined in Washington by 2,500 representatives of labor, immigrant advocacy and civil rights groups, ...
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Chicago City Council passes resolution for immigration reform and supporting Gutierrez immigration reform principals to be announced next week. http://icirr.org/en/reform-immigration-a
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On October 7th, surrounded by families facing separation and local leaders of Familias Unidas and the Reform Immigration For America campaign, Alderman Danny Solis with over a half dozen supporting Aldermen ...
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights DHS gets serious about long overdue detention reforms.
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The Obama administration’s ambitious plan to repair the immigration detention system is a necessary corrective to years of willful neglect.
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights New post up by ICIRR Director Joshua Hoyt on Huffington Post
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Outright anti-immigrant demagoguery reminiscent of the failed campaigns of Republican perennial candidate Jim Oberweis is surprising, perhaps even shocking, from Congressman Kirk.
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Help Stop the Deportation of Rigo Padilla! Rigo is an outstanding student, active in his community, and needs your help!
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Today’s immigration ruling ordering the removal of Rigoberto Padilla is a tragedy for him, his family, and our entire community. Read more…
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Great article about Sister JoAnn Persch and Sister Pat Murphy great work. Please add some positive comments to article. (If the Chicago Tribune's comment section starts working again)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local
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Sister Pat Murphy prays with and listens to a female immigration detainee in the McHenry County Jail. Murphy, 80, and Sister JoAnn Persch, 75, lead a group of religious workers in ministering to the detainees' ...
