Some of the nation's leading immigrant rights activists describe the lessons they are carrying forward from the last failed attempt at comprehensive immigration reform. New... Read More
From the dark days of the Chinese Exclusion Act to post–September 11 crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, immigration detention has a controversial history in both our... Read More
New Report: Immigrants Largely Left Out of Federal Health Reform New York, NY – New York is home to more than two million non-citizens, and... Read More
Americans want their leaders to step up and solve tough problems, and immigration reform provides a perfect opportunity to deliver, write Gebe Martinez and Marshall... Read More
With a national debate on the impact of foreign workers on jobs and the economy heating up for 2010, it’s time to brush up on... Read More
When Peter Aldeza first arrived in Illinois from the Philippines, he filed U.S. Immigration paperwork to allow his older brother and sister to join him.... Read More
Labor data debunked, census data remixed, worksheets on the economic impact of immigrants, citizenship facts and stats, and a YouTube video. Read More
Arizona's new law requires state workers to report undocumented immigrants who apply for public benefits, like health care, even when it's for their citizen children.... Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) After suffering 10 years of horrific abuse at the hands of her husband, Rody Alvarado fled her native Guatemala in 1995 and... Read More
A new poll finds that health care reform is now more important than the economy and immigration for many Latinos, and a solid majority is... Read More
The "Day of Inclusion" was authored by Assemblyman Mike Eng and designated in 2009 as such by means of California State Assembly Concurrent Resolution (ACR)... Read More
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to override a recent veto by Mayor Gavin Newsom and expand the city's controversial sanctuary policy.
The board... Read More
NASHVILLE — Toribio Jimenez says an asbestos removal company used a guest worker program to trap him in virtual servitude, then fired him when he... Read More
Advocates for illegal immigrants hope to revive a reform debate that has been pushed aside by other priorities. Thousands of immigrants came to Capitol Hill... Read More
Mallika Dutt examines the fundamental problem of the immigration reform debate. Can we bring back due process rights for non-citizens? Sandip Roy interviews the award... Read More
“Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness,” a program that will be broadcast in early October, zeros in on wrenching situations playing out every day... Read More
The millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. include young people who are studying hard and achieving academic success — only to find the... Read More
In a new research volume, Immigration, Diversity, and Education, editors Elena Grigorenko and Ruby Takanishi present the first wave of studies about what is happening... Read More
At a Wednesday, September 23 press conference, Senator Loni Hancock (D-Oakland), California State Senate, Jane Garcia, CEO, La Clinica de La Raza, Dr. Sang-Ick Chang,... Read More
Washington DC -- In the first Congressional oversight hearing since the
three new FCC Commissioners took office, all five Commissioners endorsed the
Local Community Radio Act HR... Read More
The health care town hall circus this August had a recurrent sideshow: the illegal immigration paper tiger. The well-scripted disruption tactics by antireform activists played... Read More
House Democrats want the White House to clarify its tougher new position that illegal immigrants can't buy insurance with their own money from a government-created... Read More
From The BAVC Blog by Jennifer Gilomen, BAVC's Director of Public Media Initiatives
On September 2, BAVC was honored to be visited by Sonal Shah, Director... Read More
You may view all 6 YouTube clips of the President's speech on health care reform. Read More
Health care reform and immigration article from the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Read More
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