Wendy Sefsaf
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Name: Wendy Sefsaf
Date registered: September 16, 2008
Biography
Wendy Sefsaf is the Director of Communications at the American Immigration Council. Prior to joining the Council, Ms. Sefsaf served as Director of Development at New America Media, after having worked at the Open Society Institute, and public radio station WAMU as the Manager of Foundation Relations and Public Information. Ms. Sefsaf has spent much of her career in the non-profit world including with The California Hispanic Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse in East Los Angeles and The Young Adult Institute and Latino Worker’s Center in New York City.Ms. Sefsaf received her M.A. in Public Communication from the American University in Washington D.C. and she holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the New School University in New York.
Latest posts
- Justice Department Says Alabama Immigration Law Disrupts Access to Public Education — May 10, 2012
- SB1070 Author Shares Fears About America Becoming a “Minority, Majority” Nation — April 27, 2012
- DHS Review of Immigration Cases Expands to Half Dozen New Cities — March 30, 2012
- Being Anti-Immigrant Doesn’t Work in Politics, Even in the South — March 15, 2012
- Kris Kobach, a Romney Immigration Advisor, Puts Number on Self-Deportation Plan — February 23, 2012
Most commented posts
- Speak up! The Department of Homeland Security is Listening — 48 comments
- Immigration Remains Top-Tier Issue for New Administration — 13 comments
- The Facts (and Numbers) Don’t Matter in Alabama — 8 comments
- Immigrants Serve U.S. Abroad, Fight For Citizenship At Home — 7 comments
- Remembering Our Immigrant Veterans: An Incalculable Contribution — 5 comments
Author's posts listings
Alabama Attorney General, Luther Strange, testifying before Congress. Photo by lutherstrange. As each day passes under Alabama’s new, highly restrictive immigration law (HB56), it is becoming increasingly clear that facts (and numbers) had very little to do with the passage of the law—and that they continue to be ignored as state officials defend the law. …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/10/12/the-facts-and-numbers-don%e2%80%99t-matter-in-alabama/
Today, the federal judge hearing the case against Alabama’s harsh anti-immigrant law HB 56 issued a temporary order preventing the law from going into effect on September 1, 2011. The judge made no ruling on the merits of the pending motions but rather temporary blocked it to buy herself more time to consider the numerous …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/08/29/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-alabamas-immigration-law/
While the prospect of temporary immigration reprieves—made possible by DHS’s recent announcement that it will standardize its use of prosecutorial discretion—has excited many people, the devil remains in the details. Attorneys and community groups continue to caution that no one knows how fast or how wide spread this relief will be. Part of the confusion …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/08/26/some-hopeful-early-signs-that-prosecutorial-discretion-is-being-exercised/
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) recently released an analysis of the number of immigration-related proposals introduced at the state level between January and June of 2011. NCSL found that more immigration-related bills (1,592) were introduced in the first half of 2011 than in the same time period in 2010 (1,374). While the bills …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/08/12/50-states-work-on-immigration-legislation-while-congress-refuses-to-act/
While the authors and proponents of state level anti-immigrant legislation received some measure of notoriety initially, one could also predict that there would be a corresponding price to pay for pursuing such costly and divisive immigration measures. Aside from the immediate lawsuits filed in nearly every state that passed Arizona copycats, there are now additional …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/07/12/the-cost-of-doing-anti-immigrant-business-russell-pearce-to-face-recall-election/
The week before the Memorial Day holiday, several senators honored U.S. military families caught up in our broken immigration system by introducing The Military Families Act. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Harry Reid (D-NV), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the bill.
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/05/27/senators-introduce-the-military-families-act/
Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olsen filed a class action lawsuit against Utah’s HB 497— an SB1070-inspired immigration-enforcement bill. Last March, Utah passed three distinct immigration bills that collectively were designed to go beyond the enforcement-only approach of Arizona’s SB1070 …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/05/03/aclu-files-lawsuit-against-utah%e2%80%99s-immigration-enforcement-law/
President Obama has convened a number of meetings on the issue of immigration lately. However, the one that got the most attention took place this week and included a notable group of Latino actors, journalists and radio personalities for what Politico called “Obama’s Celebrity Roundtable.”
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/29/help-wanted-latino-leaders-and-presidential-leadership-needed-on-immigration-reform/
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is one of the letter’s 22 signators. As it becomes increasingly evident that Congress is too mired in politics to reform our broken immigration system, a steady chorus demanding executive action is growing. This week, 22 U.S. Senators, including Majority Leader Harry Reid, sent a letter to President Obama asking him …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/14/22-senators-demand-president-obama-exercise-executive-action-on-immigration/
SB 1070 author, state Sen. Russell Pearce, also authored the latest string of anti-immigrant measures which were rejected last week . Photo by Gage Skidmore. Last week, Arizona’s business community worked with state Senators to kill an omnibus package of anti-immigrant bills—bills which included provisions to limit citizenship to the U.S. born children of immigrants …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/03/21/is-arizona%e2%80%99s-rejection-of-anti-immigrant-measures-a-bellwether-for-other-states/
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