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A U.S.-owned smelter has contaminated the air, soil and water of the town ofLa Oroya,Peru, something that deserves oversight and corrective measures from Congress, according to a Peruvian  archbishop in testimony to the House Subcommittee onAfrica, Global Health and Human Rights, July 19. Congress “can play a vital and hope-giving…

Last week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified at a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing. Napolitano defended the administration’s immigration initiatives to focus enforcement resources, including suspending deportation for certain immigrant youth. Present in the audience were DREAMers who will benefit from this policy. The following is a statement by…

Statement by MD State Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, First Salvadoran-American Elected to Public Office in theU.S. "The newly released LA Times investigation exposing potential ties between a very wealthy Salvadoran group with family ties to the right-wing death squads  and the seed money that Mitt Romney used to start Bain…

California DREAMers Exhibit High Levels of Civic Participation, Yet Face Significant Hardships There are roughly 5 million undocumented children and young adults currently living in the U.S. today, 24% (or 1.1 million) of whom live in California. As in other states, California’s undocumented youth face a unique and challenging paradox.…

In a telephonic press conference last week, leaders of the United We Dream Network (UWD), the largest network of immigrant-youth led organizations in the country, explained the next steps in their massive campaign to educate their communities about the process, the guidelines and documents needed to apply for “deferred action.” Cristina…

Everyone knows our nation’s immigration policies need to be fixed.  But behind these failed policies are real human beings: those who make decisions about how to enforce the law, and those whose lives are affected by their decisions.  Two disturbing stories from this week show how bad decisions at the…

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowaon Wednesday removed his “hold” on legislation that would adjust the distribution of employment and family-based immigrant visas. The “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act,” H.R. 3012, passed the House of Representatives with overwhelming bipartisan support last November, but Sen. Grassley’s hold kept the bill from moving forward…

Without much evidence to support their claim, legislators across the country have introduced a string of restrictive voter ID laws with the intention of curbing “voter fraud.” The only problem is that there is no problem. Election experts agree that modern-day voter fraud is a very rare occurrence in the…