This article was originally published on the Huffington Post Blog. How did we build an immigrant rights movement? As undocumented queer immigrants, we learned from our own experiences. Frank Sharry’s latest opinion piece in The Washington Post extols the gay rights movement for teaching the immigrant rights movement how to fight, and in doing so, he places himself [...]
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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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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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En un articulo publicado por HomoZapping se entrevista a Ireri Unzueta Carrasco, miembro de la Alianza de Jovenes Inmigrantes por la Justicia (IYJL, por siglas en ingles) sobre el uso de las redes sociales y la internet para el activismo de los inmigrantes. En el articulo, ireri dice: Creemos que todas las personas tienen derecho [...]
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Dear department of Homeland Security, I know that on October 5, 2012, you issued a memorandum clarifying the criteria for what qualifies as “family relationships involving long-term, same-sex partners” in terms of prosecutorial discretion [You can find the memorandum here]. The considerations according to you, DHS, for which same-sex relationships could be viewed as “family [...]
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I remember the first time I met organizers from the Immigrant Youth Justice League. I was attending a grassroots leadership training when a youth organizer took the floor. The organizer stood up and introduced himself as an undocumented student who could not get his citizenship although he did everything that could be expected of him. [...]
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Photo Courtesy of: Photo Credit: Steve Pavey/The NIYA IYJL Statement On Deferred Action Application: What’s Next? The Immigrant Youth Justice League commends the Department of Homeland Security for doing its job on releasing the applications on time. We hope that the implementation of deferred action will not fall on deaf ears and that each case [...]
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New York coming out!
Houston - " Jovenes indocumentados en Texas salen de las sombras y declaran su estatus migratorio publicamente! Un abrazote a Alicia Torres quien..
