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Report from Black Alliance for Just Immigration reveals 2013 deportation rates for criminal grounds was 76% compared with 45% overall.

300 Human Rights, Social Justice, Faith-Based, Labor, and Immigrant Rights Groups are calling for an International Convergence at the U.S./Mexico Border from October 7-10, 2016.

Huerta encouraged people to consider both what is at stake and why their voting rights might be targeted in the first place. “What we have to think about is, if they’re doing so much to suppress the vote of the Latino and the African-American community, that means that that vote really counts. It really matters or else why would they be trying to suppress them?”

A coalition of local community organizations have launched an ICE Free Zones campaign.

There is a reason why Wall Street and all of corporate America likes immigration reform, and it is not, in my view, that they’re staying up nights worrying about undocumented workers in this country -- Bernie Sanders

The first week of the new year brought hope and cheer for some. But for many Southern immigrant communities, it brought fear.

During the 1860's, Chinese laborers were brought in to help construct the first U.S. trans-continental railroad between the Atlantic & the Pacific coasts. They worked long hours & were underpaid, and most of the time in extreme weather conditions. Many lost their lives in this historic epic, but their contributions were buried & their history untold.