Today El Paso City Council unanimously passed a resolution similar to the one passed Monday by El Paso County Comissioners Court calling for immigration reform and an end to enforcement against our border community. El Paso City Council CIR Resolution 2013 by City Council passes a resolution supporting Immigration reform, yesterday the County passed a [...]
Today the El Paso County Commissioner’s Court passed this resolution in support of immigration reform and stopping the punitive and unaccountable enforcement against immigrant and border residents that has plagued our communities. The Border Network for Human Rights supports this resolution and about 30 BNHR members sat in Commissioners Court this morning to show the [...]
By Fernando Garcia, BNHR Executive Director Last week, the fight for immigration reform kicked off in earnest. Plans from both Senate leaders and President Obama were unveiled. After more than 25 years of intense advocacy, we have never been closer to immigration reform than we are right now. The high turnout of Latino voters in [...]
(EL PASO, Texas) – Today a bi-partisan group of 8 U.S. Senators released a set of principles to shape, pass and implement long overdue comprehensive immigration reform. The principles, drafted by Sens. Schumer, McCain, Durbin, Graham, Menendez, Rubio, Bennet, and Flake, represent a mixed bag of immigration policies, with some representing rational, humane and overdue [...]
