Local grassroots organization JP Progressives will be visiting Congressman Stephen Lynch’s Boston office on July 25 to specifically ask him to close the immigrant detention camps on the southern border.
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During his first budget go-around as chair of the powerful Massachusetts House Committee on Ways and Means, state Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez (D-15th Suffolk) is taking heat in some corners due to immigration provisions being stripped from the state budget during House-Senate negotiations.
In response, Sánchez says he strongly supports immigrant communities and is unhappy that the budget rider, which among other things would have prohibited police from asking people their immigration status unless required by federal or state law, ultimately did not appear in the approved state budget.
Join us to hear a bold and unified way, through the lens of climate change, to look at our immigration issues in America and internationally.Veteran Arizona border journalist Todd Miller has covered hot spots in the US and around the planet. He has worked on immigration and border issues from both sides of the U.S. Mexico divide for organizations such as BorderLinks, Witness for Peace, and NACLA. His new book, Storming the Wall, investigates how the ecological…
WBUR’s Louise Kennedy will moderate a conversation on the value of, and challenges to Boston’s rich immigrant community inspired by Nora Valdez’s Immigration Nation art exhibit at the Urbano Project.
