A new play about undocumented students premiered this month in Charlotte, NC. The Pot is about a college student, Laura, bringing her boyfriend, Rick, home to meet the family at Thanksgiving. Her father has been elected to the state legislature … Continued
Miami High School valedictorian, Daniela Peláez, and her sister faced deportation to Colombia, but after the community rallied, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has granted the two sisters deferred action for two years. Peláez came with her family to the … Continued
by Arianna Hermosillo In 2011, communities in Alabama faced a direct attack. All of House Bill 56 threatened to criminalize hard workers, dedicated students and committed community members across that state based not on their serious felony convictions, moral depravity … Continued
Originally published in The Progressive. By Eric K. Ward, October 5, 2011 The reckless hunt for undocumented immigrants is placing all of us in the economic crossfire. Recently, U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn ruled that portions of HB 56, a … Continued
Daily life is difficult for the folks with family members or friends stuck in the immigration system. It’s even harder for those who are actually ensnared. Millions of American citizens and immigrants are impacted every day by the chaos that … Continued
by Carla Nicol Argueta A delegation of students and activists were in Atlanta for a week to document efforts to resist anti-immigrant law H.B. 87. The delegation members will be sharing first-hand accounts of their experiences with dispatches. Visit Imagine … Continued
Borrowed from the pages of the Immigration Impact blog. By Travis Packer. Opponents of immigration reform are often quick to differentiate their disdain for unauthorized immigration and their alleged support of legal immigration. But finding evidence of their support for … Continued
Bernard Pastor was involved in a minor fender bender on November 17 and was arrested immediately for being undocumented and put on the path to deportation. The 18-year-old Reading High School honor student has lived in the United States since … Continued
A sophisticated wall and thousands of soldiers and border patrol agents are wrongly sending the message that militarizing the border between Mexico and the U.S. will make this country safer as a whole. Crime, drug trafficking, and unauthorized immigration are … Continued
“Any law that uplifts the human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King wrote in a letter from a Birmingham jail. In his Huffington Post article, Clarence B. Jones did not just … Continued