It was a cold October night and I had just come from school. The house was silent. And the only sound came from children playing and laughing outside. As I enter my house I could see my family was gathering around someone. One of my uncles came up to me and told me that my grandmother passed away. And [...]
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For the first time in the Village of Addison undocumented residents of DuPage county will declare themselves ‘undocumented and unafraid.’ This event is part of a series of actions during March, National Coming Out of the Shadows month. The month is being led by a new collective of undocumented, immigrants calling themselves ‘Undocumented Illinois,’ and [...]
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On Sunday March 10th, we will be holding our fourth National Coming Out of the Shadows Day: Out of the Shadows Into the Streets. We will be meeting at Federal Plaza at 12:30 PM for pre-rally music with Quinto Imperio, poetry, and drum performance by the Korean American Resource Center. At 1pm we will be [...]
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Undocumented immigrant youth from Chicago and suburbs speak about the need for people in deportation proceedings to make their case public as a way to fight individual deportation and detention cases, and to bring attention to the stories of the families being affected by federal enforcement policies in Illinois. WHAT: Press conference with undocumented youth, [...]
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Today more than 500 people faced Chicago winter to let president Obama know that there needs to be a stop to deportations. On the first day of his second-term inauguration, families that have been broken up by deportation spoke publicly at Federal Plaza, telling their stories and calling for a moratorium. The families who shared [...]
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Este escrito fué originalmente publicado en Ingles, el 14 de diciembre del 2012. Fue traducido en colaboración entre la autora, y organizadores en Tennessee, parte del TN Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC). La traducción fue hecha como parte de un esfuerzo para informar a sus miembros de las diversas posturas en el movimiento pro-inmigrante [...]
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Esta columna fué escrita por Fabiola Pomareda, y originalmente publicada por el Periodico La Raza. Varios jóvenes de Chicago y suburbios, así como sus familias, maestros, amigos y gente de la comunidad se juntarán el próximo 26 de enero para celebrar tres años desde que se creó en Chicago la Alianza de Jóvenes Inmigrantes por [...]
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Houston - " Jovenes indocumentados en Texas salen de las sombras y declaran su estatus migratorio publicamente! Un abrazote a Alicia Torres quien..
