Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/immigration/page/6/)
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.
Legislation that would have improved educational opportunities for immigrant students has been withdrawn at the state Capitol, but advocates say they are not giving up and plan a demonstration Sunday in support of the DREAM Act.
Hundreds of immigrant workers die — and thousands more are exploited — every year in the United States. Labor leader Baldemar Velasquez says it is time to organize and change immigration policy to bring them out of the shadows.
Young people who can make a real contribution to Minnesota would benefit from proposed legislation dubbed the “Dream Act,” proponents say.
As readers recited lines from “An Immigrant Stations of the Cross,” a singing procession of 25 people headed towards the corporate headquarters of General
Mills. Their purpose: to protest the unjust firing of 18 immigrant workers
employed by Aramark, a company under contract to clean offices at General
Mills.
A workers’ rights center staffed by University of Minnesota law students is now providing free legal advice for workers who feel their rights may have been violated.
Minnesota’s DREAM Act, proposed legislation that would make a college education more accessible for the children of immigrants, will be the topic of the weekly coffee hour series Saturday at the Resource Center of the Americas.
An unusual, bipartisan coalition of state legislators has introduced a Minnesota version of “The Dream Act,” which would make a college education more affordable and more attainable for the children of immigrants.