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...

SPLC: The Nativist Lobby: Three Faces of Intolerance

Three Washington, D.C.-based immigration-restriction organizations stand at the nexus of the American nativist movement: the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and NumbersUSA. Although on the surface they appear quite different — the first, the country's best-known anti-immigrant lobbying group; the second, an "independent" think tank; and the third, a powerful grassroots organizer — they are fruits of the same poisonous tree. F...

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...

Press Conference with Anastasio Hernandez Rojas Family Spokesperson

Note to media outlets: Please feel free to use any portion of this video and audio for reporting purposes. Please give credit to immigrantsandiego.org Introductions by Christian Ramirez, National Coordinator of the American Friends Service Committee Estela De los Rios, San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium Board Member: Will Express Condolences to the Family Veronica Hernandez, Cousin of Anastasio: Will Share Anastasio's Story and the Family's Wishes Andrea Guerrero, American Civil Libe...

Live Video Stream of Press Conference with Family Spokesperson of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas

Family of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas Calls for Justice The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium will be broadcasting a live video stream of today's press conference with a family representative of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, who will react to his death, which occurred after border agents beat and shot him with a taser gun last Friday. The family member will be joined by human rights groups to condemn the actions of border agents and share the wishes of the family. The li...

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...