The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group that worked with Gov. Blagojevich to craft the executive order, has played a lead role in fostering integration initiatives in other states. Read more…
With a fanfare of news conferences and Spanish-language television and newspaper ads, U.S. authorities last week started giving 457,000 illegal immigrants a chance to turn themselves in without the usual threat of arrest and detention.Three accepted.
"This is a silly idea. Anybody that wants to self deport can self deport. They just drive across the border or hop on a plane," said Joshua Hoyt, the executive director of the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights. "It's another one of these fantasy ideas of the political season." Read more…
Starting next week, a new pilot program will allow illegal immigrants who have ignored deportation orders to turn themselves in without being arrested. Read more…
Over the next several months, Rebecca Shi plans to knock on doors and visit churches, high schools and beauty shops in Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood, where she will ask a couple of simple questi Read more…