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Happening today!!

“A protest expected at the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday will set an unprecedented standard in the modern immigration debate.

Thirty activists will attempt to cross into Laredo, Texas under the banner of the Dream 30, an effort meant to bring attention the 1.7 million-plus people deported during President Barack Obama’s first term in office.

The crossers are mostly Mexican immigrants who have either been deported or chosen to leave the country and return to Mexico.” Full story here.

Immigration detainees watch from inside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement bus while “dreamers” try to block it last week as it left an ICE building in Phoenix. The detainees were headed for a detention center in Eloy for possible deportation.

Last Wednesday, four protesters belonging to the Arizona Dream Act Coalition were arrested after locking and chaining themselves to a gate outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Phoenix. Two more protesters were arrested after blocking a bus leaving the facility with a group of undocumented immigrants.

Full article here: http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20130825immigration-reform-dreamers-tactics-awareness.html

“Nine immigration activists were freed Wednesday from the Eloy Detention Center after more than two weeks of being held in federal custody for attempting to cross the border from Mexico to the U.S. in protest of American immigration policy.”

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/08/08/dream-released-from-immigration-detention-in-arizona/#ixzz2bOdDM2Rd