immigrant rights

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<strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>Two immigrant mothers stood outside the downtown Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office holding a sign that read, “They have a Dream.” The women stood in silence — they shouted no slogans and sang no chants. They didn’t need to. The lyrics to a song being performed live right in front of them told their story and that of so many others like them.</p>

BUSINESS WIRE — The Latino Policy Coalition (LPC) has requested that President Barack Obama issue an Executive Order that puts an end to the shattering of Latino families; and begins the process of reuniting American citizen children with their undocumented immigrant parents.

According to the Shattered Families Report in 2011, over 48,000 mothers and fathers of at least one U.S. citizen child were separated due to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions and deportations.

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<p>Se acabó mayo y quienes están interesados en el tema migratorio esperan con ansia cuál será el veredicto de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, en junio, acerca de la ley SB 1070 de Arizona, que permite los arrestos por sospechas de no tener papeles y criminaliza a los indocumentados.</p>
<p>¿Decidirá la Corte qué la legislación migratoria es una prerrogativa del gobierno federal? o determinará ¿qué los estados tienen la facultad de producir sus propias leyes inmigración?</p>

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<strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>Fourteen-year-old Jocelyn wants to be the first person in her family to graduate. But now she may have to do it without the one person who most wanted to be there: her mom.</p>
<p>When Alabama enacted the nation’s toughest immigration law, HB 56, her mother was faced with an impossible decision: stay and live in fear; or flee back to Mexico, denying her daughter the education that she had sacrificed so much to give her.</p>