Group Offers Free Citizenship Assistance

By Diana Guevara A workshop was held in San Diego today to assist people who wish to become U.S. citizens.   You Are America hosted the event at San Diego’s Equality Alliance Center in North Park at 11 a.m. on Tuesday. The campaign, funded by San Diego Naturalization Collaborative, is offering free help for people going through the application process. One of the people utilizing the program’s help is YouTube sensation Jorge Narvaez, who appeared on The Ellen Show after he sang wi...

U-T: Threatening note found near critically injured mother

By Susan Shroder and Pauline Repard EL CAJON — A 32-year-old woman was critically injured and not expected to survive after an assault in her El Cajon home on Wednesday, police said Friday, and a threatening note telling the mother of five to go back to her home country was found near her, a family friend said. The woman’s 17-year-old daughter found her unconscious in the dining room of the house on Skyview Street off Lemon Avenue about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, said El Cajon police Lt. Steve Shak...

Become a Citizen Today and Vote in 2012!

FREE CITIZENSHIP APPLICATION ASSISTANCE February 25th: 9 am, 11 am, or 1 pm San Diego City College, Learning Resource Center Register in advance at www.youareamerica.org or call 760-239-7959 to reserve your spot to receive assistance from expert attorneys and legal service providers. Be sure to bring these documents and information to complete an N-400 application: Money Order for N-400 Application Fee: $680 (made out to U.S.C.I.S.) OR fee waiver documents (see box). Lawful Pe...

SDIRC Member Updates and Information

FIND OUT WHAT SDIRC MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS ARE UP TO AND GET INVOLVED! The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium is comprised of almost 30 organizations that are dedicated to defending immigrant rights. In this post you can find news and updates from four of our member organizations, the California Immigrant Policy Center, the ACLU, the San Diego LGBT Community Center and the San Diego Foundation for Change. Find out what’s going on in San Diego and get involved! California Immigr...

When Marriage Equality & Immigration Policy Intersect

Editors' Note: Guest blogger Ruben Gonzales is the Deputy Vice President of Resource Development for the National Council of La Raza. I asked my fiancé to marry me on an Alaskan cruise with my family, at sunset on one of the ship's decks. We had already been together for seven years, but we had resolved not to get married until we could marry legally. It was a long time coming and something that, when we started dating twelve years ago, we thought might never happen. In two weeks, Jo...

OUTLAW: My Life As an Undocumented Immigrant

by Jose Antonio Vargas for DefineAmerican.com This article was originally published in the New York Times Magazine. One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. "Baka malamig doon" were among the few words she said. ("It might be cold there.") When I arrived at the Philippines' Ninoy Aquino International Airport with her, my aunt and a family friend, I was introduced to a man I'd never seen. They told me he was my uncle. He h...