My American Dreams

This is the story of a Jewish refugee family who used fraudulent identities to enter the US after the holocaust. The youngest in the family grows up to be a distinguished lawyer and U.S. government official. In his memoir, he warns: if the U.S. does not create a legal system for immigration that understands what desperation pushes people to do, and creates just responses, everyone loses

5 years ago, Victor and Rocío represented us at the Supreme Court... and made some impressive friends.

Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York found another Executive Order, and policies by ICE pursuant to it, violated common law privileges that go back to US legal tradition as far as its eighteenth-century English antecedents. https://www.law.georgetown.edu//judge-finds-ice-courthous/

Requisitos para el estimulo de $600 a cada indocumentado en California!

Christopher Kerosky of KEROSKY, PURVES & BOGUE, LLP, and a Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights commissioner, shares important information to ease the anxie...ty during Green Card interviews and much needed awareness of the process for all of us.... Every year, thousands of immigrants from Northern California leave their spouses and children to make a trip back to their home countries often for the first time since coming to the U.S. decades ago. The purpose of these trips is not tourism or visiting family; its the often stressful and perilous end to a long bureaucratic process of seeking permanent residence for that immigrant. Our laws usually require that the immigrant go back to their home country for this last step, rather than allow him or her to do it here. There are many Mexican citizens who regularly travel from Sonoma County to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez the central location in Mexico for these interviews. If your family member or someone you care about is preparing to make such a journey, here are some important tips to know and consider before going abroad. #socogazette #community #SonomaCounty #resources

Tomorrow night, don’t miss this Nor Cal Media TV broadcast of our My American Dreams videos and interviews with Cristian Fertino and Angela Tang, two DREAMers featured in the films. Also featuring the film project of the Sonoma County Junior Rights Commission and an interview with Rima Makaryan, a member of the Commission from Analy High School, Sebastopol. Here’s a trailer:

It is unjust for lawmakers to ignore the plight of children growing up in mixed-status families, just as it is unjust for them to exclude their taxpaying parents. Undocumented immigrants pay billions in state and local taxes each year, and more than half pay federal income taxes. Moreover, out of an estimated 7 million undocumented immigrants in the workforce, 5 million serve as essential workers on the front lines of the pandemic in farmwork, food services, construction an...d maintenance. In November, Biden indicated his support for the HEROES Act, legislation that would have provided stimulus payments to all taxpayers, not just those with Social Security numbers. The newly elected president’s stimulus plan must not forget the undocumented immigrants who have supported the country during the pandemic. These heroes and their children deserve an economic lifeline. https://qctimes.com//article_63fe76d1-d98d-50f5-b458-8bd35

The exploitation of the restaurant workers that is highlighted in the film is the reality of an immigrant’s life in the US, Renzu said. I have met many such people in restaurants in real life and heard their stories of pain and hardship. Even now, when I visit those restaurants, I find the same people working there only to pay off their debts. https://www.scmp.com//film-them-kashmiri-directors-illegal

Madaras said his group is pushing for equitable access to vaccines for workers in the agriculture industry, which relies heavily on immigrants and seasonal foreign labor. We have a database geared towards people on the move to help get them from one community health center to another, Madaras said. We are working to help those farm workers who are on the move who may get the first vaccine in North Carolina and then are due for their second one when they reach Virginia and to make sure (they get the) correct second vaccine. https://www.politico.com//covid-vaccine-food-farm-workers-

US PRESIDENT-ELECT Joe Biden is set to begin his time in office by announcing a major immigration reform bill that could see more than 20,000 undocumented Irish given a route to citizenship. "But it would be remarkable if our Irish American president was to succeed in passing legislation that would secure the future for so many Irish undocumented and indeed, all undocumented. Now is the time for all ethnic groups to pull together. https://www.irishpost.com//joe-biden-to-announce-immigrati

Quetzales de Salud (Quetzals of Health), formed by Harvard Medical School students in the spring of 2020. The organization is geared toward improving access to medical care for uninsured immigrants while assisting them with costs related to medication, outpatient clinic visits, or specialty care. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/care-undocumented-immigrants

According to the 2019 American Community Survey by the Census Bureau, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that 69% of undocumented immigrant workers hold jobs that are deemed essential. https://www.natlawreview.com//study-says-69-undocumented-i

Trump’s inability to manipulate the census is one of his most remarkable failures. His attempt to add a citizenship question was foiled by lies, stupidity, and bad luck. While the case was pending at SCOTUS, documents emerged that proved the real purpose of the question was to create an advantage for Republicans and non-Hispanic whites. This revelation may have persuaded Chief Justice John Roberts to cast the fifth vote blocking the addition. https://slate.com//trump-census-apportionment-undocumented