Dozens of Tennessee faith leaders urged Republican presidential candidates to keep the bitter rhetoric on immigration out of the Volunteer State. Tennessee’s Republican presidential primary is March 6. The plea came Feb. 9 in the form of a statement signed and released by some 45 leaders representing the Abrahamic faiths across Tennessee. “We are faith [...]
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News: Church’s letter against E-Verify cites biblical verses
A group of local clergy have signed a letter in opposition to the E-Verify proposal on the ballot Tuesday and will announce their position at a public event this afternoon. Using biblical texts to support their position, the group refers to the proposed ordinance, called Question 1, as “unjust” and says such a law would [...]
Blog: The Agricultural 99 Percent
Written by Andrew Wainer, Immigration Policy Analyst at Bread for the World Institute. 2011 was a record year for U.S. farmers, with farm income topping $100 billion. This includes sales of $22 billion in fruits and nuts and $21 billion in vegetables and melons – crops that rely on immigrant farm labor. But even as U.S. farmers prospered in 2011, those [...]
Blog: Immigration Reform…in Small Steps
Written by Melanie Fox, Intern at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Small steps may be the key to reforming our largely unjust and broken immigration system. One of those small steps is exactly what the nation witnessed when H.R. 3012 was passed by a whopping 389 votes in the House. The vote, which took place last [...]
Blog: Stop Understanding, Start Feeling
From Kathy O’Leary, Coordinator at Pax Christi NJ. As I sat down to write this blog post, about our upcoming protest on December 7th in Newark over the for-profit immigration detention contract, I was tempted to lead with statistics about the percentage of foreign born residents in Essex County. Then I remembered a quote from a book on racial [...]
News: Tennessee Clergy Meet to Prevent Spread of Anti-Immigrant Laws to Their State
From Faith in the Public Life. Earlier this year, anti-immigration legislation in Alabama outraged civil rights and faith leaders in that state and around the country. Clergy such as William Willimon, Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church, took action against what he has dubbed “the meanest immigration Law in the nation” by [...]
Blog: Unintended Consequences: Alabama Families, Farmers and Lawmakers Struggle with New Immigration Law
Nora Skelly, LIRS Policy Associate, advocates for the protection of refugees, migrants in detention and families affected by our broken immigration system. Every morning, my walk to work takes me past the Newseum, which displays the front page of newspapers from all 50 states. I often take a moment to see what is important to [...]
News: “One Family, One Alabama” Campaign to Repeal Immigration HB56 Law Launches
The campaign Launch has been a huge success for One Family One Alabama. Read just a few of the news coming from the state and visit the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice and their Facebook page. “One Family, One Alabama” Campaign to Repeal Immigration HB56 Law Launches A delegation of the Congress today will hold [...]
News: Alabama’s HB 56: “Harshest immigration law in the country”
U. W. Clemon marched in demonstrations alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., worked on desegregation in Alabama and became the state’s first African-American federal judge. He has seen great advancement of civil rights, but is very concerned about their present state. Watch his commentary on Alabama’s anti-immigrant law. Read more from U. W. Clemon here.
News: Arizona Topples Senate President Russell Pearce, SB 1070 Immigration Law Architect, in Historic Recall Vote
From the Huffington Post: MESA, AZ — In a stunning blow to the Tea Party movement, a huge turnout in Mesa’s conservative LD 18 overwhelmingly voted out Arizona’s hardline State Senate President Russell Pearce in a historic recall election today. As the self-proclaimed “Tea Party President,” Pearce’s national role as the figurehead for punitive immigration measures also [...]
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