Los Angeles We left Pasadena at 6:59 AM in order to make it to Agoura Hills on the outskirts of Los Angeles County almost 40 miles away near the Ventura County border. We needed to be early enough to visit with day laborers who would be there on a Saturday hoping for work. Nik Theodore, …
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Going Small versus the Grand on Immigration Reform
New Orleans Sitting in at the California field office of the House majority whip, Angelica Salas, the esteemed, outstanding director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), was informed that the House would not take up the issue of immigration reform before the end of the year, virtually taking the rest of …
Was there a DREAM versus Secure Communities Immigration Deal?
Buenos Aires I want to share how exciting it was to be with the organizing committee in the Isidor Casanova district of the mega-slum, La Matanza, yesterday as they planned their first major campaign to clean up the fouled, garbage laden dump that their river has become, but that will have to wait until …