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Grupo de derechos de los inmigrantes en Tennessee nunca cedió en la lucha para hacer justicia a los empacadores de carne, víctimas de una redada ilegal en el lugar de trabajo

March 2, 2023

By Isaias Guerrero

La Coalición de Inmigrantes y Refugiados de Tennessee (TIRRC) organizó a las familias de la redada para luchar contra las políticas antiinmigrantes y ganar una demanda que otorga más de $1 millón a los trabajadores afectados.

This Tennessee Immigrant Rights Group Never Gave Up on Getting Justice for Meatpackers in Illegal Workplace Raid

March 2, 2023

By Isaias Guerrero

TIRRC organized the families of the raid to fight back against anti-immigrant policies and win a lawsuit providing over $1 million to affected workers.

The Creator of the Hip-Hop Track About Canvassing On Bringing Your Full Self to Organizing

June 16, 2022

By Cristina Rayas

Immigrant rights policy director Pratik Dash found a home in using the microphone as a megaphone.

We are reliving one of America’s darkest moments by detaining immigrant children in former Japanese American Internment Camps

July 27, 2019

By Mikka Macdonald

When I first learned about how my grandparents were imprisoned in WWII’s Japanese American Internment Camps, I was embarrassed, hurt, and unwilling to accept history as truth.  Now ,as President…

Citizenship Question on the U.S. Census Hurts Immigrant Families

August 3, 2018

By Mikka Macdonald

A Muslim ban. Family separation at the border. Ending Temporary Protected Status. And now, a question on the 2020 census asking each household a question about citizenship that is designed…

Separating children from parents continues America’s painful history of criminalizing immigrants

June 29, 2018

By Mikka Macdonald

Toddlers crying after they are torn from their parents’ arms. Mothers, sitting in chainmail cages, using foil blankets for warmth. A father who committed suicide after being separated from his…

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