Media Advisory: As Portions of SB1070 Are Blocked, SDIRC Members Head to Arizona to Observe

Contact: Ricardo Favela Strategic Communications Coordinator Email: Communicate@immigrantsandiego.org Phone: (760) 468-4519 Elizabeth Maldonado SDIRC Chair (619) 417-8197 Pedro Rios SDIRC Faith Representative (619) 370-5908 Statement on behalf of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium: "U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton's decision to block the implementation of the most vicious provisions of the new Arizona immigration law represents a step forward in the protection of con...

Media Advisory: SDIRC On Stand By to Respond to President Obama’s Speech on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

SDIRC Board Members will Watch Speech and be Ready to Offer Responses Contact: Ricardo Favela Strategic Communications Coordinator Phone: (760) 468-4519 Email: communicate@immigrantsandiego.org San Diego, Ca: Board Members of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC) will be watching President Obama's speech on comprehensive immigration reform and will be available for interviews. Attaining comprehensive immigration reform is one of the four goals that brought the consort...

Media Advisory: SDIRC Expresses Condolences for Family of Man Who Dies Following Altercation with Border Patrol

Contact: Ricardo Favela, SDIRC communicate@immigrantsandiego.org (760) 468-4519 Christian Ramirez, AFSC (619) 885-1289 (619) 233-4114 San Diego, Ca. – The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium* (SDIRC) expresses its sincerest and most sympathetic condolences for the Hernández Rojas family and laments the passing of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, who died Monday afternoon at Sharps Hospital in Chula Vista.  Mr. Rojas, who is survived by his wife Maria Puga and his 5 children, met an unne...

Media Advisory: Border residents oppose National Guard deployment

Contact: Ricardo Favela Strategic Communications Coordinator San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (760) 468-4519 communicate@immigrantsandiego.org. Louie Gilot Policy Director, Border Network for Human Rights 2115 N. Piedras, El Paso, TX 79930 (915) 274-0541 lgilot@bnhr.org. May 26, 2010 -- Organizations representing border communities from San Diego to Brownsville have written a letter to the Obama Administration and federal legislators strongly opposing the decision to send t...

Media Advisory: CAIR-San Diego & SDIRC Decry Rep. Hunter’s Anti-Immigrant Remarks

CAIR-SAN DIEGO & SDIRC DECRY REP. HUNTER’S ANTI-IMMIGRANT REMARKS Congressman backs deporting U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants (SAN DIEGO, CA 4/30/10) - The San Diego Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) and the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC) expressed concerns today over the recent comments made by Congressman Duncan D. Hunter at a Tea Party gathering last Saturday in Ramona, where he supported the idea of deporting U.S...

San Diegans Unite to Oppose Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Law

Civil Rights, Faith, Education, Labor and Political Leaders Condemn Race-Baiting SB 1070 For Immediate Release April 27, 2010 Contact: Ricardo Favela, San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium, 760-468-4519 Rebecca Rauber, San Diego ACLU, 619-398-4497 (direct) or 619-922-0700 A broad and diverse range of faith and civil rights organizations and leaders representing more than 40 organizations and communities are joining together today to stand up in opposition to the irresponsible and inhu...