All posts related to migration issues and migrants’ rights
Yesterday there was a protest outside the building housing Senator Collins’ office, demanding she take action to stop inhuman “zero tolerance” immigration policies. Our very own Dennis Chenoy was one of the speakers and he had the following to say: Despite the Trump/Sessions immigration fiasco roller-coaster, careening from one form of human rights abuse […]
Why has the highest law-enforcement official in the U.S. intervened to disqualify refugee status for desperate migrants, mostly women and children, who are fleeing physical and sexual violence at home? It seems (Jeff) Sessions has lost patience with clogging up the immigration system with people he regards basically as lawbreakers: “Saying a few simple words […]
Joanie Ellis, from PICA, wrote the following after visiting Carasque, a community in the department of Chalatenango in El Salvador. We hope you enjoy this material, included in their June newsletter. Leaving Carasque Joanie Ellis In my dream we are riding on a bus filled with many Caresqueños. Laughing, singing, all in high […]
Debate about thousands of unaccompanied minors migrating from Central America is all over US headlines, but absent from the debate are the voices from the countries that these children are leaving. Join Sister Cities, SHARE and CISPES on Monday, July 28th at 5:00 PM PST – 7:00 PM CST – 8:00 PM EST for a […]
By Alexandra Early, originally published on www.counterpunch.org As someone who just returned from living and working in El Salvador, I’m still having a hard time adjusting to our mainstream media’s never-ending wave of know-nothing commentary on the subject of immigration. A case in point is the column penned by New York Timescolumnist Ross Douthat on […]
By Catie Johnston, former volunteer in San Vicente and new Sister Cities Co-Coordinator This weekend I went down to Houston to visit my host brother. The last time I saw him he was riding into the sunset in the back of a pickup truck, leaving El Salvador to try for the American Dream. I stood […]
Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities A sustainable development and friendship project with El Salvador May 6, 2012 Immigration Taskforce for Central America c/o Jose Artiga SHARE Foundation 2425 College Drive Berkeley, CA 94704 Dear Immigration Taskforce for Central America: This letter is submitted to express our support for the campaign to secure legal permanent residency […]
Permanent Residency Now for Central Americans with Temporary Protective Status! On March 8th, Share, Centro Romero of Chicago, Causa Oregon, and CRIPDES held a press conference and rally to launch the Residency Now campaign in El Salvador. The Residency Now campaign is aimed at getting Permanent Residency status for the approximately 64,000 Hondurans, 212,000 Salvadorans, […]
On March 8th, CRIPDES, Share, Centro Romero of Chicago and Causa Oregon held a press conference and rally to launch the Residency Now campaign in El Salvador. The Residency Now campaign is aimed at getting Permanent Residency status for the approximately 64,000 Hondurans, 212,000 Salvadorans, and 3,000 Nicaraguans who have been awarded Temporary Protective Status […]
Agreement of Constitution for the Social Coordination for Human Rights The Salvadoran population in its majority is marginalized socially and economically; El Salvador’s economy is stalled and concentration of wealth is increasing, salaries are low and unemployment is rising, we lack our own currency and inflation is on a rampage and we have a very […]