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Immigrant Rights Advocates Travel to Washington, DC
Seek Solutions to Broken Immigration System
03/08/07
Oakland, CA. Employer sanctions, the policy of using employers as immigration agents, has failed since its inception in 1986 to stop undocumented immigration flows. This policy of criminalizing work only wreaks havoc on workers, families, communities, and businesses. This was clearly demonstrated yet again in the Swift raids last week where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 1,282 immigrant workers. <more>
"ICE" Cold Hearted Raids with no "Swift" Solutions
12/12/06
Oakland, CA - Employer sanctions, the policy of using employers as immigration agents, has failed since its inception in 1986 to stop undocumented immigration flows. This policy of criminalizing work only wreaks havoc on workers, families, communities, and businesses. This was clearly demonstrated yet again in the Swift raids last week where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 1,282 immigrant workers. <more>
Vigilantes Terrorize Immigrants Along California's Border
09/09/05
WHAT: Bay Area communities will hold a vigil and press conference to remember those who have lost their lives crossing the US-Mexico border, denounce growing vigilante violence and call for comprehensive immigration reform. The vigil comes on the eve of the arrival of Arizonan vigilantes to California’s border region. <more>
More than 1700 Immigrants Nationwide Surveyed on Immigration Reform
05/23/05
In an unprecedented poll of immigrant communities across the country, the initiative called “Raising Immigrant Voices for Dignity & Justice” found that immigrants firmly support comprehensive reform of the U.S. immigration system. 94% of those polled supported legalization of undocumented immigrants. <more>
Nationwide Survey on Immigration Reform
04/11/05
More than sixty organizations are organizing immigrant community discussions and polling as part of a nationwide initiative to project the pulse of diverse immigrant communities in the current debate over immigration. <more>
BAIRC Calls on Senate Judiciary to Oppose Gonzales for Attorney General
01/05/05
Oakland, CA-The Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition (BAIRC) urged members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in a letter today to oppose the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to the post of Attorney General. Gonzales' record as White House counsel, particularly his disregard for the Geneva Conventions, justification of the use of torture and attempts to eliminate due process, make him unfit to serve as the nation's chief law enforcement official. <more>
House advances worst immigration legislation in a decade
10/20/04
Oakland, CA. After the 9-11 Commission spent months hearing testimony and developing recommendations to protect Americans from future terrorist attacks, extremist legislators in the House of Representatives have advanced a bill that completely ignores the Commission’s recommendations and threatens to include sweeping anti-immigrant measures. <more>
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