Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/immigration/page/5/)
Wearing orange jumpsuits to dramatize their “criminal” status, several people turned themselves into Minneapolis police Monday to protest immigration proposals that would penalize people who help undocumented workers.
To protest proposed immigration legislation, human services workers, union leaders, religious workers, teachers and others will turn themselves into Minneapolis police at the Hennepin County Government Center at noon on Monday, March 20.
The Minnesota Legislature sent a clear signal that immigration will be a significant issue this election year when, on the first day of the session, House lawmakers heard a bill to outlaw local “separation” ordinances. A week later, the Senate rolled out its package of immigration proposals.
Starting with a rally Saturday in Owatonna, supporters of immigrant rights will hold a number of rallies and forums in coming weeks to discuss the contributions of immigrants to Minnesota and to counter anti-immigration proposals in the Legislature and U.S. Congress.
Thousands of people marched through south Minneapolis Sunday afternoon in support of immigrants and immigrant rights.
A number of organizations and coalitions are sponsoring a March for Immigrants Rights Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m.
Two big unions, the Service Employees and the Laborers, are part of a coalition with the Catholic bishops and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to push for comprehensive and fair immigration reform ? and to stop a punitive enforcement-only immigration bill the GOP-run House passed in December.
Minnesota should be pressing for national and global solutions to the issue of illegal immigration, rather than creating “a climate of fear” about immigrants, Twin Cities religious, labor and community leaders say.
Supporters of the DREAM Act rallied Sunday at the state Capitol, urging lawmakers to make a last-ditch effort to save the legislation during the current special session.
Five hundred members of the immigrant community and their allies
turned out at the Capitol Sunday to express outrage at Gov. Tim
Pawlenty’s decision to remove the DREAM Act from the higher education
omnibus bill.