ICIRR began its 2010 voter registration campaign, the New Americans Democracy Project, last week with four days of intensive training for the NADP Fellows and their host organizations at Casa Michoac Read more…
On Monday, July 20th, outside of his childhood home, Mark Kirk announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by now President Barack Obama. Read more…
Sources report that US Representative Mark Kirk (R-Deerfield) is now making calls in anticipation of running for the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. Increasingly, a candidate for Illinois statewide office needs to be able to add their partisan base the swing demographic of newly naturalized immigrant voters and their American born children. The following is a brief analysis of Kirk’s record on immigration and its impact for statewide office. Read more…
The list of politicians in Illinois who engage in open immigrant bashing is thankfully small, and after Tuesday’s election it just shrank by two. New Congressman Mike Quigley easily dispatched fringe Minuteman founder Rosanna Pulido in the 5th Congressional District to replace Rahm Emmanuel, and in Waukegan the polarizing voice of Mayor Richard Hyde was silenced under an avalanche of Latino support for upset victor Bob Sabonjian. Read more…
Last night, over 600 immigrant leaders from the 5th Congressional District attended a Candidates' Forum that was organized by 12 organizations: Albany Park Neighborhood Council –Ari Read more…
Today the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report exposing the Nativst Lobby composed of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and NumbersUSA Read more…
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the fainthearted -- for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path toward prosperity and freedom. Read more…
Do you want to be part of history? Do you want to help define the next crucial chapter in the struggle for a Just and Humane Immigration Reform?
Then join ICIRR in a historic mobilization to Washington DC for the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama, as well as a nationwide action for Immigrant Justice and Immigration Reform in Washington DC on January 21st! Read more…
