Celebrating Cesar's legacy
3/29/2004. Napa News
United Farm Worker founder Cesar Chavez may have passed away years ago, but many Napa County residents honored his life and message of "Si se puede" or "Yes it can be done," four days before his birthday at a celebration and immigration summit Sunday afternoon....

Study Says Minimum Wage Hike Would Benefit 165,000 Immigrants in New York City
3/29/2004. Miami Herald
Raising the state's $5.15 minimum hourly wage would directly benefit more than 165,000 immigrant workers in the city, according to a study released yesterday....

DREAM Act grants equal opportunity for college hopefuls
3/29/2004. Daily Nebraskan
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (D.R.E.A.M.) Act would allow Nebraska to provide in-state college tuition to undocumented immigrant students who grew up in Nebraska.It also would grant legal permanent residency to students after completing either two years of college or two years of U.S. military service....

Worker Safety: Texas should take cue from other states
3/29/2004. Dallas Morning News
As Americans continue to depend on cheap immigrant labor, here is one statistic that we can live without: Mexican immigrant workers die on the job at the rate of one per day. ...

Driver's license policies target foreign nationals
3/29/2004. South Bend Tribune
In tandem with Indiana's drive to curb driver's license fraud, Elkhart County is intensifying efforts to prosecute people who present false identification at license branches.License branch employees in Elkhart, Goshen and Nappanee will call police if they have doubts about documents that cross their counters, and police and prosecutors will respond with arrests and felony charges, as warranted....

Chorus joins Iraqi-born Florida man in protesting deportation
3/29/2004. The Orlando Sentinel
National civil-rights and advocacy groups have joined forces in support of Kussay "Gus" Al-Sabunchi, an Iraqi-born Orange County resident who faces deportation for breaking the law after he sent roses to his ex-wife in 1997....

Asians fight for safety on the job
3/26/2004. Alameda Times-Star
Chinese immigrant Haiyan Wu has never made more than minimum wage in her 11 years working in the United States, and currently spends eight hours a day breathing toxic solvents. ...

Proposed legislation could hand federal duties to local police
3/22/2004. The Brownsville Herald
The power of arresting suspected undocumented immigrants is not something that Brownsville Police Chief Carlos Garcia cherishes....

Feds Labor to Help Immigrant Workers
3/19/2004. Las Vegas Business Press
A new program to teach English proficiency to 2,000 immigrants training for jobs in the hospitality industry here as well as 450 current workers at 10 hotels will be added to the Culinary Training Academy (CTA) courses via federal government funding....

Albany Social Security ID Checks Threaten Driver's Licenses
3/18/2004. The New York Times
New York State is threatening to suspend the driver's licenses of half a million drivers - 5 percent of the state's 10 million drivers, including thousands of immigrants working here illegally - because their Social Security information at the Department of Motor Vehicles does not match up with the data on file at the Social Security Administration....