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Order halting deportations and bill providing path to citizenship for 11 million welcomed by many. By Catherine Capellaro - Jan 31st, 2021 11:02 am //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
Teen marcher at Milwaukee Federal Building calling for DACA protections, alongside Voces de la Frontera. Photo by Isiah Holmes/Wisconsin Examiner.
In his first days at the Resolute Desk, President
Joe Biden delivered a swift repudiation of former President
Donald Trump’s harsh immigration policies, introducing legislation that would create a path to citizenship for 11 million people and allow “Dreamers” applicants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) to apply for permanent residency.
New film in many ways a culmination of 35 years of reporting by Georgia Pabst. //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
Georgia and Ralph Pabst knew that Latinos had a rich history in Wisconsin. But they wanted to explore what life for them is like today. This photo captures a Voces de la Frontera march. Photo provided by Ralph Pabst/NNS.
Georgia Pabst’s interest in Wisconsin’s diverse Latino communities is both personal and professional.
After all, she’s a fourth generation Mexican American, and as a former reporter at The Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, she spent over 30 years covering Latino affairs.
Wrapping up a week of events intended to pressure Wisconsinâs U.S. legislators to advocate for immigration reform and racial justice, members of immigrant advocacy group Voces de la Frontera Action lobbied Rep. Mark Pocan and spoke out about the dangers facing undocumented essential workers.
The Wisconsin events were among 50 events in a national âweek of actionâ organized by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, an alliance of pro-immigrant groups across the country, to demand President-elect Joe Biden and Congressional leaders create âcomprehensive reformsâ in the first 100 days of the new administration.Â
The alliance wants those policies to include a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., a federal pandemic relief bill that includes financial and health care assistance for families regardless of immigration status, and âthe abolishment of policies that criminalize Black, Brown, Latinx and immigra