Rep. Cardenas fights for immigration reform to come to a vote
House Floor, April 8, 2014.
By: Rep. Tony Cardenas
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Silicon Valley pushes immigration reform
Tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley push for immigration reform with FWD.us.
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Pelosi: Race A Factor In GOP #39;s Stall On Immigration Reform
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi cited race as a key reason that the Republican-led House of Representatives has not moved on a comprehensive immigration r...
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Interfaith Council calls for Immigration Reform
Bishop Jon Bruno is joined by eight Los Angeles religious leaders, Roman Catholic, Armenian, Jewish, Protestant, Muslim and Episcopal, who stood shoulder to ...
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A hundred women are calling for immigration reform with a 48-hour fast on Capitol Hill this week.
Credit: Les Talusan/We Belong Together
(WOMENSENEWS)--Twitter has been full of tweets by women fasting in Washington, D.C., for the past two days.
These protesters join more than 1,500 women who have fasted for at least 24 hours in 70 events spread over 35 states and Mexico in a month of demonstrations.
Their aim is to shine a light on the toll that deportations of undocumented immigrants and the failure by U.S. lawmakers is taking on women.
"Much of (our work) is about putting a face on the issue," said Pramila Jayapal, chairperson of We Belong Together, in a phone interview late last week. "We're talking about women and children that are disproportionately burdened by a broken immigration system."
We Belong Together, a Seattle-based campaign that works to mobilize women in support of "common-sense" immigration reform, co-sponsored the fasts and offers this list of reform proposals that would help women in particular.
One example of reform being sought is to expand protections for women here legally on dependent visas from the threat of domestic violence. Currently, only a quarter of all employment visas are given to women as principal holders, the rest are dependent on their spouse's visa, which means that they themselves cannot work.
"Because most women cannot get employment visas, 70 percent of all women here legally have come through the family immigration system," said Jayapal.
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