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Victory: Walter Gets to Stay! Happy Fourth of July!

07/02/09 - After a strong coordinated effort this week, led by Dream Activist.org and SEIU, to allow Walter Lara to stay in this country, we've scored an important victory. Walter was granted a one-year stay of deportation today. The 23-year-old honor student will now get to spend this Fourth of July watching fireworks with his family in Florida instead of waiting to be deported to a country he's never known. Congratulations to everyone who worked to make this happen! | Read More

Weekly Immigration Wire: White House Meeting a First Step to Reform

07/02/09 - Guest Blogger Nezua: "After postponing twice, President Obama finally met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on June 25 to discuss moving immigration reform legislation forward. The meeting was applauded by activists and advocates for immigration reform, as the issue seemed to have stalled, and the acrimonious tone of the debate has proven deadly. All parties emerged from the meeting with positive feelings about the prospect for progress, as I heard on last Friday’s White House debriefing conference call." | Read More

Why Deport Walter?

07/02/09 - "There is no greater case in recent memory that so accurately demonstrates the absurdity and injustice of our broken immigration system than the case of Walter Lara, a youth who's family traveled to the United States when he was just three years old. Walter earned a 4.7 GPA in high school and later graduated from Miami-Dade Honors College in 2007, where he went on to pursue a career in computer technology." | Read More

Will Newly-Minted Senator Al Franken Support Real Solutions on Immigration?

07/01/09 - Yesterday we were happy to note that the Minnesota Supreme Court ended an 8-month epic legal dispute to determine who would represent the great state of Minnesota in the United States Senate. We were even happier to note that the newest member of the Senate and the Senate Judiciary Committee, often responsible for deciding immigration matters, appears to take a common-sense approach to the frequently-demagogued issue. | Read More


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Hundreds rally in Salinas for immigration reform

07/02/09 - Monterey County Herald
Julieta Reyes has a brother who fought in Vietnam. Ricarda Rodriguez became a U.S. citizen after almost a decade working in the fields. Hector Rojas was brought to this country when he was 8 years old. Leticia Garcia Romo is a third-generation American, the first one in her family to go to college. Their stories, similar to those of millions of illegal immigrants in this country, were heard by hundreds of people gathered Wednesday at St. Mary of the Nativity Church in Salinas to garner support for reforming U.S. immigration laws.

As his deportation hearing nears, Fla. man shares story

07/02/09 - Miami Herald
Walter Lara considers himself the all-American guy next door, raised on the mantra that if you work hard and do well in school, you can ''make something of yourself.'' But the 23-year-old, undocumented Florida resident -- who supporters say is ''as American as apple pie'' -- faces deportation on Monday because his parents never adjusted his immigration status after they moved to Miami from Argentina when he was 3.

Deportation policies steer illegal immigrants to shadows

07/02/09 - Tennessean.com
Deanna Martinez's husband is one of the estimated 130,000 to 170,000 illegal immigrants living in Tennessee. He can't renew his driver's license since Tennessee tightened the documentation requirements a few years ago. And Davidson County is the only place in the state where the sheriff's office participates in a federal program in which a traffic stop can lead to deportation. "Imagine sitting at the breakfast table one day and your husband saying, 'I'm going to be deported because I forgot to use my blinker when I changed lanes the other day.' That's just not a risk we like to take," Martinez said.

Back to Google News ICE launches workplace immigration crackdown

07/02/09 - AP
Immigration officers are investigating workplaces in every state in the U.S. to check whether they are hiring illegal workers. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told members of Congress in an e-mail Wednesday morning that it is beginning audits of documents that employees fill out when they are hired. The documents are known as I-9's.

Police meet at Biltmore Hotel to discuss immigration policies

07/02/09 - Miami Herald
Top law enforcement officials from across the country are urging their colleagues to build trust -- not fear -- among immigrant communities. The group, which included Miami police Chief John Timoney, argued that undocumented migrants, in particular, often refuse to report crime -- both as victims and as witnesses - because they fear being deported.

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