NAM original coverage and ethnic media articles on immigration policy and its impact on everyday lives. This section is supported by the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund and The Carnegie Corporation of New York. For more information on NAM immigration coverage, contact Sandip Roy at sroy[at]newamericamedia[dot]org.
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Immigration Reform: The Phone Call Heard Around the Country
New America Media, News Report, Marcelo Ballvé, Nov 19, 2009
Across the country, in churches, schools, immigrant support centers and private homes, backers of immigration reform gathered around telephones as Hispanic U.S. legislators laid out the strategy for pushing a reform of the immigration system in 2010.
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License to Deport in Gwinnett County, Georgia
Atlanta Latino, News Report, Judith Martínez, Translated by Elena Shore, Nov 18, 2009
Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway announced this week that the jail he runs is ready to deport an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 undocumented immigrants who have driven without a valid Georgia license.
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Immigrant Rights Movement Fights On, Despite Obstacles
America'sVoice, Commentary, Maribel Hastings, Nov 17, 2009
The immigrant rights movement is using social networking and technology to mobilize the public and exert political pressure to make comprehensive immigration reform a reality. This is the fourth part in the series “Immigration Reform: Know the Players.”
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Janet Napolitano Predicts Immigration Reform in 2010
New America Media, News Report, Khalil Abdullah, Nov 16, 2009
Napolitano’s speech at the Center for American Progress was a finely calibrated recitation of the Obama administration’s wish list and rationale for the ingredients of a comprehensive immigration reform package it hopes will move through Congress in 2010.
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Chinese Hotel Workers Blast Hyatt
New America Media ,  , Vivian Po, Nov 16, 2009
During a recent three-day strike outside the Grand Hyatt hotel in San Francisco, nearly half of the protesters were Chinese immigrants.
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Long Beach's Cambodians Still Haunted by Killing Fields
New America Media, , Mike Siv, Nov 15, 2009
Twenty-seven years after the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, during which 1.7 million Cambodians were killed, the first trials of Khmer Rouge officials for their part in the mass murders began last spring. But Cambodians in Long Beach, Calif., aren't more concerned with the present than the past.
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Census Counts on Colorado's Ethnic Communities for 2010 Count
New America Media, News Report, Elena Shore / Video by Paul Billingsley, Nov 13, 2009
Census representatives asked ethnic media leaders to help them reach Denver's growing populations – including Hispanic, Brazilian, African and Russian – and to encourage their audiences to participate in the 2010 count.
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Undoing the Damage: S.F. Scraps Undocumented Youth Policy
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia,  and Blog, Audio: Donny Lumpkins and Malcolm Marshall // Video: Liat Krawczyk // Blog: Alexi Drier , Nov 13, 2009
On November 10, the San Francisco Broad of Supervisors voted 8-3 to override the Mayor's veto on the legislation to amend the sanctuary city ordinance. This decision indicates that undocumented minors can no longer be directly turned over to the Immigrations Customs Enforcement (ICE) if arrested on a felony charge.
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Health Care Reform Shouldn't Limit Women's Care
New America Media, Commentary, Rocio Córdoba and Destiny Lopez, Nov 13, 2009
The House jeopardized the health and well-being of women with the passage of the Stupak amendment, which would eliminate abortion coverage from both private and public health plans participating in the insurance exchange.
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