May 10, 2008

On the May 1, 2008 demonstrators across the U.S. gathered in cities, Chicago, New York, Milwaukee, and the nation's capital, to protest immigration raids and deportations. The third annual May Day protests reflect the growing support for immigration, border security and citizenship policy reforms.

Immigration reform advocates celebrate 'Immigration Day'
KVIA - El Paso,TX,USA
Thursday is the third annual "immigration day", a day advocates set aside to fight for immigration reform. This year's marches are the first to take place ...

LA business leaders joining May Day call for immigration raid ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... on May Day, they agreed this year to put aside boycott calls in favor of a united front on stopping the raids and working for comprehensive immigration ...

May Day protests throughout the Bay Area
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
They are calling on Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul, including a path to legal status, and ultimately citizenship, for the estimated ...

Immigration Marches
ABC30.com - Fresno,CA,USA
Thursday May 1st marks the third anniversary of immigration day in the United States. Pro-immigrant groups across the country took part in demonstrations ...

Hundreds expected for May Day march in San Diego
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
On that day in 2006, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets around the nation to call for wide-ranging immigration reform. ...

A new May Day
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... devices will prevent a repeat of a particularly humiliating breakdown that day, when dispersal orders were barked in English to immigration protesters, ...

Immigrant rights activists join protests nationwide
The Associated Press -
CHICAGO — Thousands of immigrants and activists gathered in cities across the country Thursday to demand comprehensive immigration reform, ...

Pro-Immigration Groups Gather in Downtown San Diego for May Day
XETV FOX6 San Diego - San Diego,CA,USA
Pro-immigration groups will call for comprehensive immigration reform during a march and rally in downtown San Diego Thursday that will coincide with ...

May Day immigration rally in McAllen
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
McALLEN -- Immigration activists plan to rally tonight at McAllen's Archer Park, fighting for immigration reform. The rally is planned for 7 pm at the park ...

Attorneys to discuss immigration issues at Law Day
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
This year, the event will focus on immigration law and individual rights in criminal law. Presentations on the two topics will be given by lawyers from ...

Immigration Day Rally
WDEF News 12 - Chattanooga,TN,USA
THOUSANDS OF IMMIGRATION RIGHTS SUPPORTERS IN LOS ANGELES RALLIED IN UNITY THIS MAY DAY. BUT COMPARED TO TWO YEARS AGO, WHEN THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE BEGAN TO ...

“Immigration Day”
Al Día (Filadelfia) - Philadelphia,PA,USA
“Immigration Day?”, said an infuriated Lou Dobbs this past Thursday, May first, regarding the Hispanic immigrant marches that for a third consecutive year ...

Immigration Day
Central Illinois Proud - Bloomington,IL,USA
WMBD/WYZZ TV – PEORIA -- Thursday is the third immigration day in the US . Pro-immigration groups across the country are planning rallies including one in ...

May Day Protesters Decry Deportations
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
By Tim McDevitt MAY DAY Protesters at Union Square Park last week rallied for immigration rights and to stop the surge in raids and deportations by the ...

Day-Labor Issue Has Cooled, but Only to Simmer Rifts Could Shape ...
Washington Post - United States
Two years ago, Herndon's taxpayer-subsidized day-laborer center was a flash point in a national debate over immigration, and most of the current council and ...

Illegal immigration could shake up Lewisville council races
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Among his plans: Demand identification from day laborers. If they're undocumented, arrest them. Lewisville officials have said police can't arrest day ...

Immigration Agency’s List of Deaths in Custody
New York Times - United States
27, Yvel Fils-Aime, would have made him 48 when he died, but a newspaper obituary reported that a 29-year-old named Yvel Filsaime died on the same day in ...

Summary Box: May Day immigration protests
Chicago Tribune - United States
The march was also an attempt to reinvigorate calls for Immigration reform in a presidential election year. HOW MANY SHOWED UP? Turnout has fallen sharply ...

Immigration-enforcement bill splits Democrats
ArizonaRepublic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
He spoke at a two-day conference in Washington, DC Berman said efforts at piecemeal changes in immigration policy are also paralyzed in the House. ...

University of North Texas conference deals with how schools can ...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
He said immigration agents were not unkind or rude, but he thinks "they really forgot about the children" on that day in December 2006. ...

“May Day” event clls for immigrant rights
Madison Times - Madison,WI,USA
as they marched from Brittingham Park to the City-County Building downtown, demanding immigration reform and immigrants’ rights May 1. ...

Bittersweet Reunions Span US Border
Washington Post - United States
By Ashley Surdin TIJUANA, Mexico, May 10 -- You can walk to the US border, Francelia Menchaca's immigration lawyer advised her, but don't put your fingers ...

Niche rises from sanctions law
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Julie Pace, a Phoenix immigration lawyer who specializes in the employer-sanctions law, said she is not surprised companies are using registered agents who ...