by Norah D'Cruze | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured, Immigration, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON– As Illinois and the Midwest’s first Latina congresswoman, Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) said she feels a responsibility to uplift immigrant communities like those she came from. This has meant protesting President Donald Trump and his administration’s attack...
by Ali Bianco | Mar 2, 2022 | Featured, Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON – After President Joe Biden finished his first State of the Union address, immigrants and activists shared their reactions to Biden’s one-and-a-half minute statement on the state of immigration. For many who were hoping to hear potential policy proposals or...
by Ali Bianco | Feb 15, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – A freshman GOP lawmaker’s immigration bill might be a non-starter under a Democrat-controlled Congress. But if Republicans retake either chamber in November, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar’s (R-Fla.) proposal could provide groundwork for increased border...
by Ali McCadden and Mikayla Denault | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Activists and progressive Democrats including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush protested on the Capitol lawn Thursday, demanding that Congress include immigration reform in the $3.5 trillion social spending bill and connect it to the $1...
by Stavros Agorakis | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — When Li was seven years old, he left Mexico to reunite with his family in New Jersey. Seventeen years later, holding a temporary visa through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, he walked for two weeks to send a message to Congress — pass...
