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Restore Fairness

“Restore Fairness” produced by Breakthrough in association with 26 leading organizations, calls for the U.S. government to bring back due process and fairness to the immigration system. The video features the powerful voices of Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren and Lucille Roybal-Allard, Judges Dana Marks and Bruce Einhorn, and civil society leaders Anthony Romero, Donald Kerwin, Karen … More »

Two Moms Fight to Stay Together

Shirley Tan came from the Philippines decades ago, and built a life with her partner Jay, giving birth to twin boys and becoming a full-time mom. But Shirley faced the biggest challenge of her life as she fought to stay on in the United States, crippled by laws that do not allow gay and lesbian … More »

Is 2010 the Year for Immigration Reform?

On the very same day that health care reform passed in Congress, Restore Fairness joined 200,000 workers, families and communities to march for just and humane immigration reform. The atmosphere was electric. Crowds chanting slogans, waving American flags, reasserting the need to restore fundamental human rights to our broken immigration system, cheering President Obama as … More »

A Transgender Detainee Speaks Out

Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda, a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico, who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a segregated cell with other transgender detainees, Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced … More »

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Arizona immigration law motivates Latino youth as DOJ sues Sheriff in civil rights probe


The U.S. Justice Department is suing Sheriff Joe Arpaio saying he has refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Latinos.  In partnership with federal immigration through a 287(g) agreement, Sheriff Arpaio is infamous for his “reign of terror” against … More »
9/2/10 | No Comments

Time to counter hate and intolerance

Even as hate filled rhetoric continues to pump the airwaves, there are a number of initiatives calling to counter the intolerance.
Today, on August 28th, forty-seven years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech” at the Lincoln Memorial. His message gave voice to the voiceless and his vision promoted … More »
8/27/10 | No Comments

Human rights in the United States? Where do we stand?

The United States has submitted its first ever report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, a wide ranging report on human rights all 192 members of the United Nations are required to produce. Calling it “a roadmap for our ongoing work within our democratic system to achieve lasting change”, the report stressed the importance … More »
8/24/10 | No Comments

A nation’s spirit uprooted by conservative focus on “anchor babies”

The 14th amendment, established in 1868 as a major gain from the Civil War, united a nation that was once half-slave and half-free. Today, some Republicans wish to revisit the debate of 1868 and revoke its notion of birthright citizenship in order to help prevent undocumented immigration. Instead of focusing on reforming the … More »
8/19/10 | No Comments

Feds may have held off Arizona law, but border law gets the green light

Although a federal judge struck down on some of Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB 1070’s major provisions in a critical victory, the untrue notion that Washington has lost control of the border remains. Within this atmosphere of hate and misinformation, President Obama signed a $600 million bill that increases appropriations for border security in a piecemeal … More »
8/16/10 | No Comments
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Featured Allies

  • Deportation has been compared to the courts to banishment, exile. It's an extremely serious consequence that the immigrant judge has to decide.

    — Judge Dana Marks
    Immigration Judge

  • Any comprehensive immigration reform policy has to be one in which immigrants are treated fairly, humanely, and have access to our legal system.

    — Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard
    34th Congressional District of California

  • It is time to restore fairness to a group of people being denied basic rights simply because they were born on a different patch of the Earth.

    — Kyle de Beausset
    Citizen Orange

  • One of the great things about our country is that the government also has to live within the rule of law, and everybody in America, under our constitution, is entitled to due process of law.

    — Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren
    16th Congressional District of California

  • America has always prized how we treat people...and I think if most Americans understood what was happening, they would want it to stop immediately.

    — Karen Narasaki
    Asian American Justice Center

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