United Farm Workers Launch "Take Our Jobs" Campaign

On Thursday, United Farm Workers (UFW) launched a new campaign titled “Take Our Jobs”. The goal is to raise awareness that the food we all eat at home, in restaurants and at workplace cafeterias comes to us from the labor of undocumented farm workers. As UFW points out on their campaign website, “We are a nation in denial about our food supply."

During a press conference yesterday, UFW President Arturo Rodriguez had this to say,

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Anti-Immigrant Groups Blame Immigrants for BP Oil Spill

Originally posted at Imagine 2050.  Imagine 2050 is project which includes activists, immigrants, artists and students who are invested in a future nation that embraces multiculturalism and tolerance.

Anti-Immigrant Groups Blame Immigrants for BP Oil Spill
June 18, 2010

By Rebecca Poswolsky
www.imagine2050.net

Amidst an environmental crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, anti-immigrant groups in the John Tanton Network see the BP oil spill as an opportunity to – wait for it – blame immigrants.

BP can’t contain the oil spill and the anti-immigrant movement can’t control its tendency to blame immigrants for every bad thing in America. On the ground, people are cleaning up oil, protesting BP, and fighting to protect their communities. Anti-immigrant leaders associated with The John Tanton Network posit a different response all together.

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PHOTO: Oregonians call for an end to deportations and killings on the border

Oregonians stop traffic in front of the Portland Office of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and call for an end to deportations, the separation of families and killing of immigrants on the U.S-Mexico Border by U.S. Border Patrol Agents.

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PHOTOS: Over 100 turn-out to ICE Office in Downtown Portland

Portland, Ore--Over 100 people including union members and immigrant and human rights advocates turned-out today at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Portland to call for a halt to deportations of hard-working immigrants and a stop to killings of immigrants by U.S. Border Agents. 

The March and Rally was organized by CAUSA, Oregon's Immigrant Rights Coalition, Rural Organizing Project, and SEIU Local 503 OPEU.  The groups called on Congress and President Obama for a humane solution to the nation's broken immigration system by passing comprehesive immigration reform.

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Groups to protest ICE program that divides families and threatens community security

MEDIA ADVISORY
June 14, 2010

Contact:
Francisco Lopez, Executive Director, (503) 984-6816
Erik Sorensen, Communications Director (503) 488-0263

Groups to protest ICE program that divides families and threatens community security

Joint demonstration will call for an end to federal immigration program which harms the trust between local law enforcement and Latino Families

WHAT: MARCH AND RALLY TO CALL FOR AN END TO ICE PROGRAM THAT DIVIDES FAMILIES

WHEN: 4:30PM, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2010

WHERE: U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE) OFFICE, 511 NORTHWEST BROADWAY, PORTLAND, OREGON

WHO: CAUSA, RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION (SEIU) LOCAL 503

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New poll from America’s Voice: America wants solutions

Originally posted at the Reform Immigration For America Blog

America’s Voice has released polling numbers on how the country views Arizona’s new law and comprehensive immigration reform:

[R]ather than a newfound wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, most Americans support Arizona’s law as well as support for national comprehensive immigration reform is driven by a desire for action by Washington on a problem that has been left unattended for too long.

In other words: Americans want our government to fix our broken immigration system. They support comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level, because they know that the current bureaucracy isn’t helping anyone. They’d rather see something — anything — than live another day under the current system.

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False ‘Border Security’ Debate is Immigration’s Oil Spill, Obama Will Meet With AZ Governor Brewer

By Jackie Mahendra. Originally posted on the America’s Voice blog.

It’s like a raging oil spill, but without those fancy underwater cameras.

Lack of comprehensive immigration reform has allowed an untenable situation to explode into dangerous platitudes, scapegoating, and solve-nothing politics. It has enabled fearful Republican politicians in the heat of challenging midterm elections to exploit the thorny issue of immigration. Ironically, research shows that if politicians would demonstrate a real plan for federal immigration reform, these same officials would see a major boost in support among the majority of voters, who desperately want illegal immigration solved.

For now, like an out-of-control oil slick, Arizona’s controversial new law is poised to spread in a big way — to two dozen other states in the coming months, in the absence of a federal fix. Unlike an out-of-control leak, however, there is a well-documented solution that the majority of Americans support.

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