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Crete Residents and Neighbors Protest Proposed Immigration Jail

January 10, 2012

ICE is proposing a 750-bed facility to house immigrants awaiting action on their deportation cases.  ICE now deports 400,000 immigrants each year, more than ever before.  For ICE, this record pace of enforcement has meant a greater need to hold immigrant detainees, even though nearly half have no criminal records and most pose no threat to the commu

Uniting America at United African Organization

January 09, 2012

ICIRR Praises White House Action to Keep Families Together

January 06, 2012

Family Unity Waiver Would Simplify Process for Close Relatives of US Citizens to Gain Legal Status

Uniting America at Family Focus-Aurora

January 05, 2012

A library is the main staple of a community, where people come together, learn, share, respect and connect. The Aurora Public Library provides opportunities for all those elements and so much more.

Another Fellows Orientation Perspective

December 22, 2011

Three days on the 20th floor at the ICIRR office downtown…three days of brand new information that needs to be internalized…three days of personal sharing that brought strangers together. At first the prospect of such intensive training was daunting, having just left my previous job the Friday before, but the support was overwhelming!

Second Uniting America AmeriCorps Orientation

December 22, 2011

Wow! I had completed not one, not two, but three ICIRR trainings for the Uniting America campaign. We had a chance to meet a large bulk of the talented ICIRR staff, who shared with us their strategies for organizing, recruiting, and reaching out, all very relevant lessons to the work we will be doing in our communities.

Recruiting Enthusiastic Youth

December 22, 2011

This past weekend I presented at Be Your Own Benefit (BYOB), a concert fundraiser, put together by some Filipino-American college students from Elgin Community College to raise money for those affected by the recent natural disasters in the Philippines.  Melissa Ypil, the producer of this successful event, was gracious enough to give me 10 minutes to talk about Uniting America.

Hidden Connection

December 20, 2011

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