Officials say tribe targets immigrants in scheme Attorney general is suing Kaweah Indian Nation to stop recruitment
As Hispanic migrants learned about their rights when confronted by police at one end of the room, English speakers brainstormed ways to reach out to Tallahassee's immigrant community. About 50 people attended a workshop Monday evening at the St.
Gaby Pacheco doesn't know when her immigration status will cause the pursuit of her dreams to come to a screeching halt, but she fears the day is inevitable. ''I went to high school with the sorrow of knowing that when I graduated, maybe it was the end,'' said Pacheco, an undocu …
October 13, 2006 started like a bad dream for my wife and I. At 6 am, we were interrupted by the thunderous knocking on our door by the police.
The Gomez family's deportation is set to take place Sept. 14 unless it can get a Capitol Hill heavyweight to intervene, and Congress does not go back in session until Sept. 4.
When a broad immigration bill failed in the Senate in June after a vitriolic national debate, many legislators said the issue was dead, perhaps until President Bush left office. But already some of the less contentious pieces of the bill are returning to life.
Deportation divides family U.S. citizen hopes for husband's return VICtor Manuel Ramos | Sentinel Staff Writer Posted May 14, 2007
"Who picks the fruit, who cleans the hotels, who works in the restaurants?" asked Jorge Sierra, a Honduran activist who spoke on a grassy lot before the two-mile hike began. "We'll support the law."
The STRIVE Act is encouraging. It moves the immigration debate in the right direction. The administration's most recent proposal, however, is deeply disconcerting and does not do justice to President Bush's early championing of comprehensive immigration reform.
As several hundred Asian-Americans rallied on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for immigration reform, Rep. Mike Honda couldn't resist playfully goading them with a small joke about perceptions of ethnic groups. "You know, there's this whole stereotype that Asians are quiet.
"We really are at a crossroads," said Maria Rodriguez, director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition. "The polls are showing in our favor, that people want a path to citizenship ... but there's a lot of political posturing from both parties.
Immigrant advocates say their goal now is to attract support from mainstream Americans through education and to pressure federal lawmakers to pass immigrant-friendly proposals through grass roots lobbying. That translates to increasing membership in their organizations and possi …
One thing is to be loud, and the other thing is to be powerful," said Maria Rodriguez, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition.
Sonia Barajas, 19, a Florida-born activist who organized rallies in Belle Glade last year, said fear consumes people in her family and among sugarcane workers.
With the upcoming increase in the cost of naturalization, which is expected to jump from $400 to $600, the One Nation Board is holding three Super Saturday's events to assist residents of South Florida complete their naturalization applications
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