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Immigration News Stories – April 24

– April 24, 2012Posted in: Featured Events, Weekly Migration Update

The following list of news stories was compiled by Mike Poulin, Pastoral Minister at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic 

Church in Omaha, NE on behalf OTOC’s Immigration Action Committee and is for informational purposes only. This is not an endorsement of the authors, organizations, or views expressed in any of the articles mentioned below.

 

There has been a lot to post in the past few weeks. If there are items you are encountering that you think others would like to see your submissions are welcome. You can send them to me at poulinm@svdpomaha.org.
Mike

Item #1
This ad is running in Alabama in a faith based effort to urge reconsideration of their immigration law. It is well done and worth watching.

Item #2
What happens to immigrants who are detained but can’t be deported?

Item #3
In the future more voters will have close personal ties to immigrants.

Item #4
Sojourners has set up a comment page regarding the proposed changes to the 3 & 10 year bars (see last week’s posting). You can access it here

Item #5
You can join Detention Watch Network’s “Dignity Not Detention” Campaign by visiting here.

Item #6
Here’s more on the valedictorian from Florida who was facing deportation.

Item #7
This report on border security offers compelling information, including statistics and graphics. The executive summary is 4 pages. The full report is 62 pages.

Item #8
In case you were wondering whatever happened to the Minutemen, here is an update.

Item #9
Here is what FAIR has to say in support of Alabama’s immigration law.

Item #10
Here is a report on the border patrol in northern Washington.

Item #11
I don’t usually post items that I haven’t read/viewed, but this one looks interesting and I don’t have the time today. If you watch it please let me know what you think. It is Aljazeera English with a report on the business of immigrant detention in the U.S.

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Migration: Comment on the New Immigration Regulations

– April 17, 2012Posted in: CCSJ Advocacy Alerts, Migration

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of families who are trying to follow the rules under our current immigration laws are separated for indefinite periods of time as a result of the severe policies of our present system. If they have lived in the U.S. without documents, the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents face family unity bars that run between three and ten years.

Under the existing laws there is a waiver that spouses or children of U.S. citizens can qualify for if they prove that the separation would cause “extreme hardship” to their U.S.-citizen family member. The difficulty lies in the fact that applicants must currently travel outside of the U.S. to obtain this waiver, triggering the three to ten year bar.

Forced out of the country to wait for a decision, family members endure long periods of uncertainty and separation from their loved ones. The waiting can last months or years, and the situation becomes an extremely difficult hardship when the spouse who is left behind ends up being the sole caregiver of the household, as is often the case.

What the Proposal Would Fix
The processing change that is being proposed would reduce the amount of time families are separated by allowing a U.S. citizen’s spouse or child to apply for the family unity waiver within the U.S., permitting the family to remain united as it awaits a decision on the waiver.

Why We Need to Take Action
These type of proposals are open for public comment, in support or opposition, for 60 days. We expect anti-immigrant activists to bombard the government with comments urging it to strike down the proposal, so it is important for us to share our support for this humane update to our existing policies. Sojourners wants to submit now at least 250 positive comments to the Department of Homeland Security from our CCIR campaign — please help us meet this life-changing goal by commenting or encouraging friends to do so.

Click here to comment in support of the proposed immigration system changes!

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Immigration News Stories – April 13

– April 13, 2012Posted in: Weekly Migration Update

The following list of news stories was compiled by Mike Poulin, Pastoral Minister at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic 

Church in Omaha, NE on behalf OTOC’s Immigration Action Committee and is for informational purposes only. This is not an endorsement of the authors, organizations, or views expressed in any of the articles mentioned below.

 

There has been a lot to post in the past few weeks. If there are items you are encountering that you think others would like to see your submissions are welcome. You can send them to me at poulinm@svdpomaha.org.
Mike

Item #1
The Omaha World Herald has run a series of articles on LB 599 in the unicameral. This is a link to Thursday’s article and in the sidebar on that page can be found links to stories from earlier in the week. As we await Wednesday’s vote to override the governor’s veto please write your state senator, thanking those who are supporting 599 and urging other to override the veto. Also, consider contacting the governor to tell him you do want our tax dollars to be spent on prenatal care for unborn immigrant children. He keeps saying all he hears is people complaining about helping immigrants. Let’s send him a different message!

Item #2
The Immigration Policy Center has published a Q & A guide to Arizona v. United States – What You Need to Know about the Supreme Court Case Over SB 1070. It is 12 pages, but an easy, informative read.

Item #3
Thousands of immigrant parents of U.S. citizen children were deported in the first half of 2011. What has happened to their children?

Item #4
The Alabama legislature ais considering changes to the state’s immigration law.

Item #5
Many of our practices towards immigrants are human rights abuses. Read a summary of a new report presented at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Item #6
A proposed change to the 3 and 10 year ban and bar rule.

Item #7
Mississippi’s immigration legislation died in committee last week.

Item #8
A little bit different than our typical posting. Very moving. A video letter sent from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Washington, D.C. featuring testimonies by Khmer Exiled Americans.

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Urgent Action Needed: Contact Senators On Prenatal Care

– April 10, 2012Posted in: CCSJ Advocacy Alerts, Migration

Your voice is making a tangible difference! There is one more round of voting on LB 599, which will restore prenatal care coverage to all low-income women, before it passes to the Governor who plans on vetoing the bill. 30 votes are needed by the Unicameral to override the Governor’s veto. Currently, there are 30 votes in support of the bill, however, on the fence supporters are facing heavy pressure to vote against the bill.

Please email or call your senator TODAY and ask them to vote YES on LB 599! The vote is tomorrow, Wednesday! Find your state senator’s contact information. Not sure who your senator is? Click here and enter your address in the “search” box.

We need to thank the thirty senators who voted to ensure that all babies in Nebraska have the chance at a healthy start in life. More info on LB 599 can be found below the list of Senators to be thanked.

Please thank these senators TODAY and ask them to continue to support LB 599!

Adams
Ashford
Avery
Campbell
Carlson
Christensen
Coash
Conrad
Cook
Cornett
Council
Dubas
Flood
Gloor
Ken Haar
Hadley
Harms
Burke Harr
Howard
Karpisek
Krist
Lathrop
Louden
McGill
Mello
Nordquist
Schumacher
Sullivan
Wallman
Wightman

LB 599 would restore prenatal care coverage for all low-income women and babies. It is critical because:

  • Prenatal care is essential to ensuring that all Nebraska babies have the chance at a healthy start in life.
  • Every $1 spent on prenatal care can save between $2.57 and $3.38 in later costs by avoiding premature and low birth weight babies, preventable birth defects, and difficult births.
  • Nebraska provided prenatal care to all low-income women and babies for decades and we need to return to that proud tradition. See the Timeline of prenatal care in Nebraska.

Check out the fact sheet on LB 599!

We know that a strong majority of Nebraskans believe we should restore prenatal care coverage. However, we need to keep up our support because opponents of the bill have been generating calls and emails and opposition to LB 599 has been clear from the Governor and certain Senators who oppose LB 599.

Please call today and ask your senator to vote YES on LB 599.

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Immigration News Stories – April 5

– April 5, 2012Posted in: Weekly Migration Update

The following list of news stories was compiled by Mike Poulin, Pastoral Minister at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic 

Church in Omaha, NE on behalf OTOC’s Immigration Action Committee and is for informational purposes only. This is not an endorsement of the authors, organizations, or views expressed in any of the articles mentioned below.

 

There has been a lot to post in the past few weeks. If there are items you are encountering that you think others would like to see your submissions are welcome. You can send them to me at poulinm@svdpomaha.org.
Mike

Item #1
Detention Watch Network responds to last week’s Congressional hearing on immigrant detention that was titled “Holiday on ICE.”

Item #2
The Department of Justice is not changing its practice of detaining asylum seekers.

Item #3
Even with new standards from ICE there is still not enough being done to protect the rights of immigrants in detention.

Item #4
Rep. Lofgren replies to Rep. Smith about detention.

Item #5
ICE’s review of existing deportation cases is expanding to 6 more cities. So far, only 8% of cases are being found eligible for prosecutorial discretion.

Item #6
Delays in the processing of visas are causing the loss of tourism dollars.

Item #7
There was more opposition to Arizona SB 1070 than support in the form of briefs to the Supreme Court.

Item #8
Mississippi farmers and law enforcement officers are urging law makers to let HB 488 die.

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