Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/immigration/page/6/)
Legislation that would have improved educational opportunities for immigrant students has been withdrawn at the state Capitol, but advocates say they are not giving up and plan a demonstration Sunday in support of the DREAM Act.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.
The keys to a strong future for Minnesota’s economy lie in education and in making a place for immigrant workers. That was the message delivered Tuesday to the Twin City Area Labor Management Council at a lunchtime seminar.
The impact of immigration, new languages and new cultures on Minnesota?s work places will be the subject of a lunchtime seminar Jan. 25, sponsored by the Twin City Area Labor Management Council.
A five-person panel including Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch will discuss how recent federal laws are affecting constitutional liberties, the rights of immigrants and the future of communities at a program titled “Balancing Civil Rights and Security” Thursday, Jan. 13.