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Action! Join WITNESS in Ending Impunity for Juarez Murders
Join LAWG and WITNESS, the organization that produced the documentary "Double Injustice" detailing the torture and wrongful accusation of David Garza for the murder of his cousin Neyra Cervantes, in sending a letter to Mexican President Felipe Calderon urging him to resolve the Juarez and Chihuahua murders once and for all. November 12, 2007
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Action! Ask Congress to Support DREAM Act Amendment
This week U.S. Senators Durbin (D-IL), Hagel (R-NE) and Lugar (R-IN) will offer the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act as an amendment to the Department of Defense FY 2008 authorization bill (H.R. 1585) that is being debated in the Senate at this time. The DREAM Act would create a 6-year path to legal status, starting after high school, for young people who were brought to the U.S. as undocumented children and have stayed in school. September 20, 2007
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Action! Ask Congress to Stop Enforcement-Only Policies
Days before Congress left town in early August, Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) introduced the Immigration Enforcement and Border Security Act of 2007 (S.1984), a Sensenbrenner-like enforcement only bill. Like George Orwell's classic novel, S.1984 takes a "Big Brother" approach to our border security. Among other provisions, this bill would authorize sizeable increases in enforcement personnel, fencing and surveillance technologies, as well as expand detention centers. September 6, 2007
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Action! Tell your Senators to Support the DREAM Act
On Friday July 13, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) announced that next week he, Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) will introduce the DREAM Act as an amendment to H.R. 1585, the Department of Defense authorization bill, which is now being debated in the Senate. The amendment will need 60 votes to pass. It would provide a 6-year path to permanent residence and eventual citizenship for individuals brought to the United States years ago as undocumented children if they graduate from high school and continue on to college or military service. July 13, 2007
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Action! Tell your Senators to say NO to the Coleman Amendment
On Tuesday, the Senate voted 64-35 in favor of a motion to resume consideration of the already highly flawed immigration reform bill. In the coming days, Senators will consider a series of approximately two dozen amendments, a mixed bag of punitive and positive measures. Although we are deeply disappointed with the overall direction that Senate has taken with the bill thus far, it is very important that advocates TAKE ACTION to let our Senators knows that we value humane and workable immigration reform and make sure that additional punitive measures are not incorporated into the bill, such as the Coleman amendment. June 27, 2007
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Action! Tell your Senator you want Just Immigration Reform
After a week of heated debate over the recently introduced comprehensive immigration reform bill, the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (S.1348), Senators have returned to their home states for a week of recess. Although the bill remains highly flawed, there were several hopeful moments during the week, such as the defeat of an amendment that would have encouraged state and local officials to help enforce federal immigration laws and prevented cities from offering sanctuary to undocumented immigrants. May 2007
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Action - Senate Reaches Agreement on Immigration Reform
After months of news of back-room negotiations and wrangling, Senators finally announced that they have reached a bipartisan agreement on a comprehensive immigration reform bill. May 2007
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Action - Update on Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation
The clock is ticking! Will you be on time to respond? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently announced that he has set aside 2 weeks in mid-May for floor debate on immigration reform. Call your senators to let them know that you support just and humane immigration policies. April 2007
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on a Bottle Campaign
Immigration reform opponents have sent over 2,000 bricks to Congress as a way to show their support for building a fence across the U.S.-Mexico border. Now it's our turn to speak out! Send Congress a water bottle that decries the deaths of migrants at the border and calls for real immigration reform.
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Reform Debate
Recent protests across the country have demonstrated the issue’s importance to constituents and new Border Patrol data shows that this summer could be the deadliest yet on the border. Call your Senators and Representatives today and tell them that the high number of border deaths are unacceptable and that you want to see real immigration reform. - Senate Immigration Reform Bill
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Security and Terrorism Prevention Act
Congress will vote the week of December 12 on the Border Security and Terrorism Prevention Act . This recently introduced bill, fails to touch on issues of border reform, and takes a punitive approach to controlling the border. Take Action today and call your Representatives to say no to bad border reform.
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of Year Immigration Review
At the end of 2005 we now see multiple bills in congress dealing with immigration reform and border security. This action alert advises activists of a variety of bills in Congress including the most extreme anti-immigrant proposals, and includes suggestions for how to promote true comprehensive immigration reform over the winter holidays.
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on a Bottle Campaign
A visual tool to educate public and policy-makers on the realities of migrant deaths.
