Converging Bigotry: Nativist Movement Begins to Focus on Muslim Immigration
By Aaron Patrick Flanagan, Imagine 2050 The present Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) debate, as political debates tend to do, has produced much ugliness from the organized nativist movement, both anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim alike. While both rail on separate-but-not-mutually-exclusive talking points, the anti-Muslim sphere has begun focusing more and more prevalently on the issue of immigration. […]
Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation
Avoid Piecemeal Anti-Immigrant Bills & Amendments The U.S. House of Representatives Should Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform In July the U.S. Senate adopted the bipartisan Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S. 744, which provides a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants. While this act is far from perfect, the […]
Tell Congress to Adopt Comprehensive, Not Piecemeal Immigration Reform
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/28/13) — CAIR is urging voters to contact their elected representatives and urge them to reject a process of adopting piecemeal measures in the House that would increase racial profiling and unconstitutional detention and also request that they include anti-profiling protections in the immigration bill. This week, the Senate passed a bipartisan comprehensive […]
Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Oppose the SAFE Act, Ban All Forms of Profiling
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/25/13) — CAIR is urging voters to contact their elected representatives and urge them to reject piecemeal measures in the House that would increase racial profiling and unconstitutional detention and request that they include anti-profiling protections in the immigration bill. Action Alert (1): Oppose the SAFE Act (H.R. 2278) Last week, the House Judiciary Committee […]
Religious leaders, followers call for immigration reform
By Francine Knowles, Chicago Sun-Times Inside a government building in Broadview, Elena Segura was focused on comforting and counseling people. Within the hour, their loved ones — illegal immigrants — were going to be shackled and deported. Outside, dozens of religious leaders and congregants from various faiths called on a higher power for change. From […]
Urge Congress to Include Anti-Profiling Protections in Immigration Reform Bill
Urge Congress to Include Anti-Profiling Protections in Immigration Reform Bill
Tell Congress that Immigration Reform Should Ban All Forms of Profiling
CAIR Action Alert #700: Senate Immigration Debate Has Begun! Tell Your Senators that Immigration Reform Should Ban All Forms of Profiling (WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/12/13) — CAIR is urging voters to contact their members of Congress to request that they include anti-profiling protections in the immigration reform bill. The Senate today voted to begin its floor […]
Action Alert: Urge Congress to Include Anti-Profiling Protections in Immigration Reform Bill
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/22/13) — CAIR is urging voters to contact their members of Congress to request that they include anti-profiling protections in the immigration reform bill, which was approved on Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Take action The bill, which will most likely be debated on the Senate floor in early June, […]
Urge Senate to Include Anti-Profiling Protections in Immigration Reform Bill
Note: The click-and-send letter for this alert is outdated and has been deactivated. Please go to our updated alert to take action for immigration reform! CAIR Action Alert #695: Urge Senate to Include Anti-Profiling Protections in Immigration Reform Bill (WASHINGTON, D.C., 5-16-13) — CAIR is urging voters to contact their representatives in the U.S. […]
CAIR Action Alert #691: Tell Congress that Immigration Reform Should Ban All Forms of Profiling
CAIR Action Alert #691: Tell Congress that Immigration Reform Should Ban All Forms of Profiling Senate immigration bill fails to address profiling based on religion, national origin (WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/25/13) — CAIR welcomes last week’s immigration reform bill, S. 744, which provides a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants. CAIR Action […]