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Tag Archives: MoveOn

15 Sep

MoveOn Urges CA Governor Brown to Sign TRUST Act

MoveOn.org comes full circle - comes out in support of California's promigrant TRUST...
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California, Featured Story MoveOn, MoveOn.org, TRUST Act
25 Jan

A Good Follow Up to SOTU Address Would Be Moratorium on Deportation of DREAM’ers

In a surprise mention during the State of the Union Address 2011, President Obama alluded to the DREAM Act and urged Congress to fix our immigration system to stop the deportation of our youth, who, having grown up here their entire lives, by...
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National News deportations, DREAM Act, immigration reform, moratorium, MoveOn, President Obama, State of the Union Address, students, Video, visa
17 Dec

Hey MoveOn: Will You Support DREAM Act too?

MoveOn.org was the first organization that inspired me to be an activist.  When they asked me for donations, volunteer support, or host an event for them in my town, I stepped up and answered their call.  Now I’m asking something...
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Featured Story, National News DREAM Act, MoveOn, MoveOn.org

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Favorite quote from the Bible:

“When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
-Leviticus 19.33-25

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Literature/research using "economic refugee" term

  • American University International Law Review: unprotected in the U.S. by virtue of an inaccurate label
  • Change.org: When an Undocumented Immigrant Is an Economic Refugee
  • Huffington Post: Surge in Economic Refugees Will Test Community Resources
  • MinnPost.com: Americans living abroad for financial survival
  • New York Times: American Evangelical Churches Announce New Policy of Sanctuary for Iraqi Refugees
  • PDA: Economic Refugees and Big Petroleum
  • The Guardian: Casualties of globalism
  • Tikkun Daily: Reagan’s Refugees
  • Univision News Tumblr: Call Marco Rubio what you will, just don’t call him an “economic refugee”
  • UPROOTED: Refugees of the Global Economy

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