Shreveport Meeting Friday night with immigration reform organizers after their long day of meetings in New Orleans on the 2nd day of the “Turning the Tide” conference it was clear that spirits were good among the organizers, despite the fact that prospects for comprehensive reform seem to have sunk to new lows. These were hard …
Category: Immigration Reform
Turning the Tide against Anti-Immigrant Enforcement
New Orleans The laugh line in the welcome to 150 organizers coming together in the “Turning the Tide” conference in New Orleans, convened primarily by NDLON (the National Day Labor Organizing Network) for immigration reform organizers who are at the sharp point of the grassroots fight against punitive enforcement, was the mention that special entertainment …
Criminal Employers
Phoenix Immigration reform advocates have increasingly lodged the criticism that the Obama Administration, the state of Arizona, and many other jurisdictions is criminalizing immigrants. Part of this lies in the simple Arpaio aberration of taking a civil infraction, which is how an immigration violation exists in law, and making it a criminal issue, largely in …