Posts Tagged ‘Reform Immigration for America’
Reactions to Obama’s Speech on Immigration
7:24 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Media|Obama|Politics · 6 Comments
2 Jul 2010Organizations whose survival relies on the idea that comprehensive immigration reform is not dead or on the rise of the Democratic party machine, will take a speech like yesterday’s and spin it into a positive, over and over again. I understand that and in some ways you have to respect that tenacity.
The Center for American Progress lavished the strongest praise on the President:
President Barack Obama boldly showed today that he is neither giving up on immigration reform nor giving in to restrictionist measures like the one Arizona recently enacted.
The president demonstrated great courage and conviction as he reasserted that the only solution to repairing our broken immigration system is one enacted by the federal government that is tough, practical, and fair.
In an email sent out, SEIU took the president’s call to get Republicans moving on a bill seriously:
In his first major address on immigration reform this morning, President Obama rolled up his sleeves and called on Republicans again to work with him on fixing our broken immigration system.
Still, Republicans have refused to cross the aisle and work with him to deliver the comprehensive immigration reform that a vast majority of Americans want.
So we’re asking all our members and supporters to call on the Republicans in the Senate to join the President by working together to fix our broken immigration system.
Click here to call a Republican Senator: http://action.seiu.org/letsgettowork
Reform Immigration FOR America, took the same approach, shifting any blame from the president or his party and focusing on Republican legislative inaction.
The National Council of la Raza wasn’t as laudatory as it tends to be everytime Obama makes a speech. Their press release post-speech concluded:
“America needs an answer. Comprehensive immigration reform is the solution, and the time to act is now. Politicians who stand in the way or sit on the sidelines will be held accountable on Election Day,” concluded Murguía.
I wonder if that was meant to mean the President as well?
Not all organizations did their usual song and dance though.
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The Non-Profit Industrial Complex Eats Reform and Spits Out DREAMs
10:25 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Immigration|Justice|Politics · 6 Comments
16 Jun 2010The Non-Profit Industrial Complex is like the Prison Industrial Complex in that despite the name, it is a capitalist model based in struggling for money. While private prisons fight amongst themselves for contracts with the Federal government and cut corners that usually equal abuses against those housed behind concrete and barbed wire, non-profits fight amongst themselves for money given out by corporate tax shelters and cut corners by watering down what should be revolution for reform and the end result is abuse against those whom orgs claim to represent and help in their mission statements. And just like private prisons would rather have rival gangs attack each other and distract from the bigger picture, non-profit organizations, whether on purpose or by default, also engage in divide and conquer politics that serve to dilute struggles rather than strengthen them. Need an example? Just look at the latest beef between some orgs in the Comprehensive Immigration Reform movement and the DREAM Act students.
Gutierrez, Napolitano, & Arpaio : Whose Immigration Strategy Will Win?
3:05 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Justice|Politics · 1 Comment
24 Nov 2009I have been trying to write this post for days and every time I get to it there has been some additional speech or statement made on comprehensive immigration reform, but statements, speeches and sound bites don’t policy or practice changes make. Where do the recent statements come from different parts of the U.S. Government intersect and where do they differ and most importantly where do they accurately deal with the reality of the millions of undocumented?
Last week, More than 60,000 people joined a call & held more than 1,000 house parties across 45 states, to listen to 3 members of Congress including the headliner, Congressman Luis Gutierrez. Under the Reform Immigration For America campaign umbrella, tens of thousands people mobilized directly via a new cell phone action network.
Random Images from the Reform Immigration for America Summit
4:47 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Immigration|Washington DC · Comments Off
4 Jun 2009Here are just a few random pics that I’ve snapped while wrangling a toddler at the Reform Immigration for America Summit.
I’m sorry pero the pronunciation guide of the chant on this flyer cracked me the hell up.
Poroto eating inside the Victory Tent.
The Victory Tent, where the lunches and dinners happen.
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Reform Immigration for America Town Hall : Choreography and Criticisms
3:47 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Politics|Washington DC · 2 Comments
4 Jun 2009This morning at the Reform Immigration for America Summit, the attention was focused on Capital Hill and pumping up the activists for legislative visits via a National Town Hall Meeting on Immigrant Reform, held at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation.
The word that popped into my head as the packed church was lead in the “Si Se Puede” multiple language chant practice was “choreography”. While the meeting featured a few grassroots, “real” people, the majority of the speakers were people we all have heard from already, including politicians. People in the audience did not participate, beyond chanting on cue. One of the included chants was “Workable Solutions” and there was something about this chant that didn’t sit well with me. Workable meaning we stop pushing for inclusion of so-called divisive issues like detention reform, inclusion of glbt familias, and the DREAM Act?
I honestly missed alot of the first half of the Town Hall since I was entertaining a toddler. Pero here is what I was able to catch.
Dia Dos of Reform Immigration For America Summit Jumps Off
6:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Politics|Washington DC · 2 Comments
4 Jun 2009
This is how we roll at the Reform Immigration for America Summit. These Summits are often exhausting, especially when there are so many people to speak to (some that you only see in person once a year) and so much work to be done and stories and angles to cover. Add to the mix that I’m running with a two year old and it makes it even more exhausting. Pero as amigo Kyle said to me yesterday, you run on adrenaline.
Today should be a really interesting day. There is a Town Hall Meeting on Immigration Reform that will feature some of the top legislative supporters of immigration reform. It will be interesting to see what the set up is at the Town Hall as sometimes these events aren’t very “towny” in that participation is limited. And as Kyle pointed out in a post yesterday from the Summit, there remain many questions that need to be asked.
For instance, why is it that traditional notions of comprehensive immigration reform include reuniting heterosexual married couples, while same-sex binational couples are left out in the cold. Another important issue is the way Reform Immigration For America will treat migrant youth. Will migrant youth be treated as leaders in the push for the DREAM Act? Or, will they be coopted or ostracized for pushing the DREAM Act independent of the migration reform?
Live from the Reform Immigration for America Conference
1:42 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Immigration|Los Angeles|Washington DC · 1 Comment
3 Jun 2009I am writing to you from Washington DC and am in the company of about 700 other people with one thing on their mind, Reform Immigration for America. What that means for each individual differs pero the energy is high and all the people here are here to work. So far I have met people from so many different states, from so many different backgrounds. Some are policy makers, some are activists, some are importantly, immigrants themselves.
I need to sit down with my notes from the Welcome Luncheon which included a keynote speech from Representative Luis Gutierrez and breakdown a little, the tone that was set for this summit.
Pero in the meantime, I think it speaks to the some of the strategic organizing when you think how this summit is part of a national effort across the country that includes local actions which jumped off yesterday. Here’s a video from the Los Angeles jump off.
VivirLatino’s Maegan la Mala On the Road to the Reform Immigration for America Summit
6:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|VivirLatino|Washington DC · Comments Off
3 Jun 2009
As you read this I’m on an Amtrak train with one child in tow, headed to D.C. for the Reform Immigration for America Summit. Mil gracias to the people at the Center for Community Change, I will attending the largest convening of pro-immigrant organizers and allies this year.
I’m really excited to meet some organizers, activists and advocacy peeps that I have thus far only known through the internet and hopefully have some real discussions as to what needs to happen with the current immigration system in the U.S.
Hola!
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