A sorry record on immigration

Opinion: Navarrette: A sorry record on immigration - San Jose Mercury News: "SAN DIEGO -- President Barack Obama is returning to the scene of the lies.
He is scheduled to speak in the next few days at the annual meeting of the National Council of La Raza, one of the nation's largest Latino advocacy groups. The event, in Washington, is expected to draw 25,000 people.
It was during a speech to this same group in July 2008 that then-candidate Obama played the role of simpatico to the Latino community. He condemned immigration raids where 'communities are terrorized,' declared that it was time for a president who 'won't walk away from something as important as comprehensive (immigration) reform,' promised that he would make it 'a top priority' in the first year of his presidency, and insisted that the United States 'cannot and should not deport 12 million people.'
Now, Obama has become what he once criticized. He walked away from immigration reform, continued the raids that terrorize immigrant communities and deported nearly 1 million people. And he has done this not to clear the way for comprehensive reform, but because he sees a political benefit to being tough on illegal immigrants. In the United States, most of the undocumented population is from Mexico, and -- as the head of an immigrant advocacy group told me bluntly -- 'no one ever lost an election by being hard on Mexicans.'"

The DREAM Act To Be Introduced Into the Senate and House on Wednesday, May 11

For Immediate Release


What: Press Briefing --- The DREAM Act To Be Introduced Into the Senate and House on Wednesday, May 11

Where:                  Immigrant Legal Resource Center
                                1663 Mission St., Ste. 602
                                San Francisco, CA 94103
                             
When:                    11 a.m. (briefing will be repeated in a briefer format at 12 noon)
For Further Information:         Mark Silverman:, tel: 4l5 305 8217 – mark@ilrc.org
Bay Area contacts:  DREAM Act students who are available for interviews:  Natalia:  at 408 568 2273, can appear in written press or on radio;
Saul, (408) 891 7921, can appear in written press or on radio; Monica, 925 698 9025, all media;

ILRC and Others Commend Senators and Congresspersons for Introducing the DREAM Act on Wednesday, May 11

San Francisco, May 10, 2011 -- The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), other organizations and DREAM Act students commend principal author, Senator Richard Durbin, co-sponsors Senators Boxer and Feinstein of California, and the other co-sponsors in the Senate, and Congressman Berman and other sponsors in the House for their planned introduction of DREAM Act legislation into the Senate and House on Wednesday, May 11th.

The DREAM Act, which based on last session’s provisions of the bills, provides the opportunity for undocumented students who entered the United States as children to obtain legal status if they pursue college education or join the military.

“The DREAM Act is good and fair for these children, good for our economy, and good older Americans who will be depending for the social security on contributions by younger workers and professionals, including the DREAM Act students, and generally good for our country,” stated Mark Silverman, Director of Immigration Policy of the ILRC.