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Hispanic y Latino News :: November 20th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Immigration Reform: The Phone Call Heard Around the Country – On the call were Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.; Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y.; and Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz. Immigrant rights advocates from various parts of the country also spoke.

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 19th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

More Than 60,000 Americans in 45 States Organize for Immigration Reform

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 18th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

CAUSA: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Needed To Keep Country Secure, Administration Committed to Reform says Napolitano

Statement on Sec. Napolitano’s First Speech on Immigration Reform

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 13th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

CAUSA: Lou Dobbs Departure Brings us Closer to Rational Debate on Immigration Reform

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 12th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

NCLR TO CELEBRATE LAUNCH OF SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ’S BOOK, GROWING AMERICAN ROOTS

LULAC Hails Removal of Lou Dobbs from CNN

As many as 750,000 Latinos and Latinas served in the armed forces during World War II, according to the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project

LANDMARK HOUSE HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL IS GOOD FOR LATINOS, SENATE NEEDS TO COMPLETE THE TASK AND BUILD ON THE HOUSE EFFORT, SAYS NCLR

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 9th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

A Victory in the Senate with the Halt of the Vitter Amendment – LULAC

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 5th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Coalition calls for public oversight in new San Bernardino 287(g) agreement

An immigrants’ rights group has launched a campaign to educate workers about their rights and encourage local employers to treat them fairly. – Connecticut

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: November 4th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Mexican-born immigrant rights activist Jorge Mujica plans to challenge incumbent Rep. Dan Lipinski in next year’s Democratic primary for Illinois’ 3rd congressional district.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: November 2nd, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

‘Sin Social’, an Independent Latin Film, Recent Winner of the Platinum Reel Award at the Nevada Film Festival, Premiers on November 20, 2009

Remembrance at the border: Migrants killed while crossing remembered – About 200 attended the vigil hosted by the Border Network for Human Rights to honor the memory of undocumented immigrants who have died while trying to cross the border.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 30th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 28th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

American Rights at Work – Immigration Study Finds Enforcement Has Undermined Workers’ Rights

Domestic Violence and Latina Immigrants: Seven Reasons Why Some Are Reluctant to Seek Help Q&A With Monica C. Roldan, MSW Manager of Community Outreach and Supervising Supervisor Sanctuary for Families

Rep. Crowley and Members of Congress to President: We Need Immigration Reform Now

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 26th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 14th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

HEALTH CARE BILL OVERCOMES EXTREMIST POLITICS, BUT STILL NEEDS IMPROVEMENT, SAYS NCLR

Latino Youth Adopt Health Care Reform Priorities at the 2009 LULAC Washington Youth Leadership Seminar

ACLU Comprehensive Immigration Reform Must Protect Privacy And Civil Liberties

SEIU Members Join Thousands at U.S. Capitol to Renew Push for Comprehensive Immigration Reform – Joined by legislators, thousands of workers, families and clergy call for an end to divisive, costly immigration policies that separate families, harm all workers

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 9th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

NCLR President and CEO Janet Murguía Named one of “Washingtonian’s 100 Most Powerful Women”

LULAC Opposes Vitter-Bennett Amendment: Call Your Senator Today!

Government Terminates “No Match” Rule Harmful To Legal Workers

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 7th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

MillerCoors Selects LULAC’s Lizette Jenness Olmos For Its 2009 Líderes Campaign

ICE Should Terminate Maricopa County 287(g) Agreement – Scaling Back Sheriff Arpaio’s Immigration Enforcement Authority Does Not Go Far Enough, Says ACLU

DHS Plan To Improve Immigration Detention An Encouraging Step – Due Process, Enforceable Detention Standards And Overhaul Of ICE Enforcement Programs Still Needed

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 5th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

NCLR Commends Congressional Hispanic Caucus for Calling for an End to 287(g) Agreements

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 2nd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Upcoming Supreme Court Session to Decide Two Critical Immigration Issues

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 30th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Does the U.S. Constitution defend the rights of undocumented immigrants?

U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing Deaths Are A Humanitarian Crisis, According To Report From The ACLU And CNDH – Death Rate Climbs Despite Economic Decline And Drop In Migration And Apprehensions

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 29th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Immigration officials consider more fee increases – Immigrant rights groups fear that further fee hikes would cut many out of the citizenship application process. The immigration agency, which must be self-supporting, faces a $118-million shortfall.

Leading experts, professionals and immigrants to discuss undocumented immigration at Connecticut College’s three-day conference

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 28th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

National Council of La Raza Applauds Representative Gutierrez for Advancing Comprehensive Immigration Reform

National Council of La Raza Supports National Back to School DREAM Act Day of Action

National Council of La Raza Joins Campaign Aimed at CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight Advertisers

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 15th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Voces de la Frontera, a Latino and immigrant worker rights group, opposes the proposed mayoral takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools, executive director Christine Neumann-Ortiz said Monday

Evo Morales rallies for immigrants’ rights

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 10th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

CAUSA: South Carolina Congressman brings disgrace on Republicans during President’s Healthcare Speech

Six boys were charged with severely beating a Guatemalan immigrant with bricks, bottles and rocks as he slept near railroad tracks, an attack that civil rights groups decried Tuesday as “hateful.”

Three Quarters of Mexican Immigrants Report Some Discrimination

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 9th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference Dec. 6-8

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 3rd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

New NCLR Report: Latino Worker Deaths Sound the Alarm for Declining Standards in America’s Workplaces

Following this month’s bust of 14,500 marijuana plants that allegedly were in part being grown by Mexican migrant workers, a Colorado Springs senator is calling on Gov. Bill Ritter and the General Assembly to take aggressive action on illegal immigration in Colorado, though immigrant rights’ groups say lawmakers shouldn’t blame entire communities for the actions of a few individuals.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 1st, 2009 :: 5 minute to empowerment

Food and Commercial Workers Join Mexican Consul General to Launch Celebration of “Labor Rights Week” as Labor Day 2009 Approaches

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 27th, 2009

National Council of La Raza Mourns the Loss of Senator Kennedy

Over 500 Organizations Demand White House End Flawed State And Local Immigration Enforcement Program – Federal 287(g) Program Results In Illegal Profiling And Threatens Public Safety, Say Groups

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 26th, 2009

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., said in a statement this morning Kennedy “will always have a place of honor in the Latino community as someone who stood up and fought for the rights of immigrants and the issues that affected the community at a time when few others would.”

Rush Limbaugh Insults LULAC on Health Care

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 21st, 2009

President Obama and Secretary Napolitano Reaffirm Commitment to Advancing Immigration Reform and Bringing Accountability to Current Practices

Stay on Track When it Comes to Health Care Reform, Says NCLR

Statement by LULAC National President Rosa Rosales on White House Meeting on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

President Barack Obama on Thursday managed to undo some of the damage he did recently with immigrants’ rights advocates — who were angered when Obama said in Mexico that immigration reform would have to wait until after health care and energy bills passed Congress.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 18th, 2009

DHS Announces 11 Previously Unreported Deaths In Immigration Detention

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 10th, 2009

Oregon’s Immigrant Rights Coalition applauds historic Sotomayor Confirmation

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 6th, 2009 – The Sonia Edition

NCLR Applauds Introduction of Legislation on Immigration Detention Standards

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 3rd, 2009

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 31st, 2009

Obama Accused of Continuing Bush’s Racial Profiling of Immigrant – While Obama’s racial diplomacy with Skip Gates is making the headlines, rights groups say that he has expanded Bush’s racist immigration policies.

Immigrant Detainee Rights Are Routinely, Systematically Violated, New Report by National Immigration Law Center Finds “A Broken System” is based on 18,000 pages of previously confidential ICE, ABA, and UNHCR reviews of detention centers

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 20th, 2009

In Memoriam: Mario F. Vazquez -vNovember 25, 1946-July 10, 2009

National Council of La Raza’s 2009 Latino Expo USA Offers Chicago Families Resources for Tough Times, Plus Free Family Entertainment

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 9th, 2009 (10 days worth)

Government Rescinds “No Match” Rule – would have unlawfully used the error-ridden Social Security Administration database

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 29th, 2009

NEW DRAMA “THE SCENES OF THE CROSS”/“LAS ESCENAS DE LA CRUZ” MAKES WORLD PREMIERE ON JULY 17 WITH IMMIGRANT STORIES PERFORMED BY THOSE WHO LIVED THEM — SIX BILINGUAL PERFORMANCES FROM JULY 17–AUGUST 1 AS PART OF 2009 MIDTOWN INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL

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