Immigrants and Refugees
The Latin America Caribbean Committee’s Immigration Spotlight is a bi-monthly opportunity to explore emerging issues and challenges regarding immigration, featuring people working for immigration justice. This week, the spotlight will be on LGBTQI+ migrants byCasa Arcoiris (Rainbow House) Director, Nicolasa “Sire” Cordova, co-founder of the only migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico serving the LGBTQI+ community. “Sire” directs a…
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LACC invites you to join the next “Immigration Spotlight” on October 27, 2023, when we will hear updates from our partners at the Ariz.-Mexico and Calif.-Mexico borders. Speakers will share details about the experiences of asylum seekers, including recent changes in policy and prisons, as well as their daily work with migrants. The Latin America…
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The next Immigration Spotlight from LACC will take place in Burlington, VT, on July 28th, 11:00 ET. From the National Farm Worker Ministry board meeting, we will hear from Migrant Justice, who with the guidance of the farm worker community are working for basic human rights. Migrant Justice will be sharing their latest campaigns, including…
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LACC invites you to join the “Immigration Spotlight” on April 28, 2023. The spotlight will be on LACC’s trip to the Arizona/Mexico border in the Sonoran Desert April 20-22. We joined our partners Dora Rodriguez and Bob Kee and visited the migrant shelters and centers in Mexico they support. We also drove many miles on…
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LACC invites you to join the next “Immigration Spotlight” on January 27, 2023, which will look at Haitian/African migrants. The Latin America Caribbean Committee’s Immigration Spotlight is a bi-monthly opportunity to explore emerging issues and challenges regarding immigration, featuring people working for immigration justice. You may browse recordings of past Immigration Spotlights here. Please register…
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LACC invites you to join “Immigration Spotlight” for a communal viewing of a documentary called “THE RACE GAP IN THE U.S. – Hispanics”. The video depicts some of the risks and challenges of migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. It lasts just under one hour so we will have a short period of discussion after…
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Join LACC for Immigration Spotlight this Friday, August 26, at 11:00 am EDT for information on the recent crack downs in El Salvador and Nicaragua, including the closure the Missionaries of Charity and about 100 NGOs in Nicaragua. Speakers: Fidel Moreira: the Director of the Study Center for Governance and Democracy (CEGODEM), an NGO in…
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Join LACC for Immigration Spotlight and meet two of our new friends from the lobbying trip to DC. Daniella Burgi-Palomino is the Co-director of the Latin America Working Group (LAWG) since 2019 where she spearheads transnational advocacy and campaigns related to human rights in Mexico and Central America, migrant rights, and border issues. LAWG and the Latin America…
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Please join the LACC Immigration Spotlight on Friday, December 10th at 11am EDT. Bob Kee, a volunteer with the Tucson Samaritans, a group dedicated to the survival of people who make the perilous trek from Mexico to the southern Arizona desert, will update us about his work at the Nogales border and with those incarcerated at…
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Please join the LACC Immigration Spotlight on Friday, November 5th at 11am EDT to hear Maggie Loredo, the co-director of Otros Dreamers en Acción (ODA). Maggie was born in San Luis Potosí, México, and migrated undocumented to the United States as an infant with her family. In 2008, she was forced to “voluntarily” return to Mexico…
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Please join the LACC Immigration Spotlight on Friday, October 22nd at 11am EDT featuring Dulce Garcia, an attorney and a DACA Dreamer who sued the Trump Administration after the termination of DACA in September 2017. As a result of those efforts, hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients were able to renew their DACA status. She is also the…
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Please join us for the Immigration Spotlight Friday, September 17, 2021 from 11am to 12pm EDT. We’ll hear from Loretto Co-Member Barbara Wander and Mabel Valdivia, Executive Director of Fonkoze, to learn more about the situation on the ground, including the good work being done to break the cycle of poverty and support individuals and…
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