Press Release: San Diego Immigrant Rights Delegation Joins Hundreds in Los Angeles; Urges Suspension of Misguided Operation Secure

San Diego Immigrant Rights Delegation Joins Hundreds in Los Angeles; Urges Suspension of Misguided Operation Secure Delegates to participate in Community Action and Government-sponsored Hearing Communities Contact: Katia Hansen (760) 458-8934 katia@uurise.org Pedro Rios (619) 370-5908 PRios@afsc.org San Diego, California (Aug. 15, 2011) : A delegation of San Diego immigrant rights advocates will join hundreds in Los Angeles today in opposition to the Dep...

Coalition Responds to President Obama’s Speech in El Paso,Texas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Thanu Yakupitiyage,  Main Phone: 212-627-2227 x235,  E-mail: tyaku@thenyic.org New York City  (Tuesday, May 10, 2011) Coalition Responds to President Obama’s Speech in El Paso,Texas NYIC to President: Yes You Can Stop the Deportations The President’s speech today was, unfortunately, much ado about nothing; his expressions of support for immigration reform sound like empty promises to immigrant communities since they’re not backed up by action...

DHS Announces Indefinite Suspension Of Controversial And Ineffective Immigrant Registration And Tracking System

by ACLU WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security today, in a long-overdue announcement, said it will indefinitely suspend the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS). Instituted in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, NSEERS was a domestic immigration enforcement program targeting men and boys from predominantly Arab- and Muslim-majority nations for extraordinary registration requirements with DHS. The program was repeatedly condemned by the United Nat...

Sign on to the Border Coalition Agreement

The agreement forming a border coalition from San Diego to Brownsville has been finalized. The agreement was born out of a strategy session held in San Diego in late June. It was drafted by the Interim Steering Committee appointed at that session and incorporates feedback from session participants and other border stakeholders. The agreement is a vehicle to work across our differences and our distances to collectively advance the interests of border communities. If you are a ... r...

Immigrants Are U.S. on Fox 5 News

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REGION: Contest seeks to put immigrants in a positive light

By Edward Sifuentes A local immigrant rights group is conducting a contest asking San Diego County residents to submit stories about how immigrants positively contribute to the community in an effort to counter negative portrayals of immigrants in the country. The contest, called Immigrants Are U.S., was sponsored by the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium and runs through Dec. 13, said Ricardo Favela, a spokesman for the group. It asks people to submit self-produced videos of up to four...