Task Force member, Val Kistler, is raising money for NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) with a goal of raising $5,000. Her family has been personally involved in this organization which provides life saving work protecting life and territory in Guatemala, with similarly impacted communities in the US – building horizontal exchanges [...]
Emergency ITIN Bill Driver's Licenses for All Safe Communities Act Plus, please contact State and Federal Legislators about the violence in Bristol County jail on May 1: After a brawl at Bristol County jail involving Sheriff, advocates for immigrant detainees call for an investigation. Please request the following: 1) an immediate investigation into the riot2) [...]
Thank you to everyone who emailed the members of the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security urging action from them last week. The SCA Campaign is asking for advocates to keep the momentum going because we have just two weeks until the June 1st deadline. They have created a super easy toolkit where [...]
The Driver’s Licenses for All bill was voted out of Joint Committee on Transportation favorably, but needs some energy to move it to the floor for a vote. The DFF Coalition is hosting Driving Without Fear: A Virtual Town Hall this Thursday, May 21st at 6 PM to come together virtually to elevate why we [...]
New! Emergency ITIN bill: Did you know that 57,000 MA residents who paid state and federal income taxes in 2019 were denied a federal stimulus check because they used an ITIN number—Individual Taxpayer ID Number? There is a bill in the MA Legislature to remedy this: S.2659/ HD.503 An Act to Provide Equal Stimulus Checks [...]
From our friends at Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW) At the end of last week, AARW was able to confirm that there is a roundup/raid that ICE will be conducting to detain Cambodian community members on October 3rd. Community members have received notices to turn themselves on this date to ICE where they will face [...]
Despite a recent ruling that granted a preliminary injunction preventing the US government from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Sudan, El Slavador, Haiti, and Nicaragua, the only long term relief will come from legislation. For this reason, MIRA is encouraging concerned people to contact their Congress people to support the American Promise [...]
This excellent 20-minute video "America, I Too" gives a vivid lived sense of the deportation process. Produced by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights.
NPR tells the story of a couple from the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas (Oscar and Irma Sanchez) who decided to bring their two-month old child to Driscoll Children's Hospital, in Corpus Christi, Texas, because the child was in need of surgery for pyloric stenosis, a condition that causes vomiting, dehydration and weight loss [...]
Donald Trump's presidential campaign capitalized and succeeded off the fear of "others," Chris Welzenbach, the author of this article defines "the other" as those who speak a different language, have a different religion, or look differently. These individuals have long been labeled as un-American, and Trump's campaign reached out to those in fear of people [...]