ICIRR

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

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Will you ride with us?

On March 21st, 100,000 marchers will descend on Washington, DC to make history and demand Comprehensive Immigration Reform…

Illinois will send 200 buses – that’s 10,000 riders – to deliver our message to President Obama and Sen. Durbin: “Friends Keep Promises” …

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Immigrant Leaders Call for National March of 100,000 in Washington D.C.

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Last week, President Obama's State of the Union marked an auspicious anniversary for immigrant-rights activists in Illinois - one year of inaction on the broken immigration system. Read more…

White House Budget: More Enforcement, More Deportations, More Misery

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The White House announced its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2011 (starting October 1, 2010) on February 1. Here is how the immigration-related agencies within the Department of Homeland Security fared Read more…

President Obama’s State of the Union neglects the “Leadership Deficit”

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During his State of the Unions address last night President Obama spoke about the need to address the fiscal deficit in our nation’s budget, but there is another deficit that President Obama must attend to. President Obama suffers from a leadership deficit on the issue of immigration reform. Read more…

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