May
18
While some states pushed for punitive immigration measures over the last year—measures designed to drive immigrants away —others, like those in Michigan, were busy putting together a plan that welcomes immigrants and their revitalizing power to the state. This month, leaders in Michigan—including state Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) and U.S. Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit)—helped launch …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/05/18/michigan-pushes-plan-to-welcome-immigrants-and-their-revitalizing-power-to-state/
Jan
03
You wouldn’t know it from listening to the ridiculous anti-immigrant rhetoric over the past year, but treating immigrants like actual human beings is a concept some hope catches fire in 2012. The Washington Post recently added “immigrants as people” on “The List: 2012”—their annual zeitgeist-inspired list of ins and outs for the new year. Granted, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/01/03/washington-post-lists-treating-immigrants-as-people-as-in-for-2012/
Nov
23
Washington, D.C. area schools participate in the Urban Debate program, which gives middle school children the opportunity to learn the art of debate. My sixth grader signed up right away. She was surprised to learn, however, at her first tournament that many people have no qualms debating either side of an issue, no matter how …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/11/23/how-to-talk-turkey-on-immigration-redux/
Jun
23
BY SUMAN RAGHUNATHAN, PROGRESSIVE STATES NETWORK Proposals to increase educational access for students (particularly the undocumented) continue to advance in state legislatures nationwide, even as they are being upheld in the nation’s courts. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court reinforced and upheld California’s tuition equity law, the nation’s oldest and one of the strongest …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/06/23/california%e2%80%99s-tuition-equity-law-upheld-by-u-s-supreme-court/
Feb
25
While some state lawmakers continue to tango with restrictive immigration bills this week, others pulled the plug on measures they worried were too costly or politically risky. Lawmakers in Arkansas, New Mexico and Nebraska voted down (or anticipated the failure of) measures that would restrict access to preventative medical care, tuition equity and driver’s licenses …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/02/25/will-state-legislators-continue-to-pull-the-plug-on-restrictive-immigration-measures/
Feb
24
Rather than allow immigration restrictionists to define how their state deals with immigration, business leaders, elected officials, community activists and faith groups in Utah and Indiana have taken an important step in reframing their state’s approach by signing “state compacts”—declarations of principles to guide the state’s immigration discussion. And they’re not the only folks standing …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/02/24/state-compacts-reframe-approach-to-immigration-but-will-legislators-listen/
Feb
14
By SUMAN RAGHUNATHAN, PROGRESSIVE STATES NETWORK As the list of state business leaders, law enforcement, and conservative lawmakers who realize that anti-immigrant efforts are costly, misguided, and destructive to state economies continues to grow, a number of state elected officials are putting their weight behind progressive, solutions-based approaches to immigration policy. A group of progressive …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/02/14/progressive-immigration-measures-pick-up-steam-at-the-state-level/
Dec
16
Today, a group of concerned state legislators from Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Texas and Utah joined forces to stand up for the DREAM Act. On a conference call this afternoon, these local legislators explained how DREAM would benefit their local communities and urged their senators—Sens. Snowe and Collins (R-ME), Sen. Brown (R-MA), Sens. Cornyn and Hutchison …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/12/16/legislators-in-key-states-stand-up-for-dream/
Jul
26
In front of more than 2000 progressive bloggers and activists Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Harry Reid and several other keynote speakers urged progressives to “finish what we’ve started” and keep beating the progressive drum for change. After enumerating major Democratic legislative victories this year (health care, financial regulation, and an economic stimulus plan …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/26/congressional-leaders-challenge-progressives-to-keep-pushing-for-immigration-reform/
Jun
30
Tired of restrictionists introducing “get tough” anti-immigration legislation in their states, state legislators are pushing back with progressive immigration policies of their own. On a telebriefing yesterday sponsored by the Progressive States Network and the National Immigration Law Center, state legislators from Arizona, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Utah discussed what they are actively doing to push …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/30/enough-is-enough-state-legislators-fight-arizona-copycat-laws-with-progressive-immigration-policies/
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