January 28, 2010 – 7:35 am
JFON publishes its Year in Review Letter summarizing their work in 2009. This report includes two client success stories, summary of special projects, new case statistics and funding data.
To View: 2009-e-letter
January 14, 2010 – 1:58 pm
JFON has finally gained access to the ICE Detention Facility in Calhoun County to conduct Know Your Rights presentations to detainees. This outreach program is funded by grants from the UMCOR Immigration and Refugees Ministries and the Michigan State Bar Foundation (Administration of Justice Grant). JFON Attorney Liz Balck makes monthly visits to the [...]
January 6, 2010 – 9:58 pm
Carl Shusterman writes: “On arriving at my office on Monday, December 28, 2009, I was informed that one of my clients and her family were being detained by CBP Officers at an inland checkpoint. I immediately called her on her cell phone, and spent the rest of the day in an effort to explain to [...]
January 4, 2010 – 9:01 am
By: Miguel De La Torre
Posted: Monday, October 12, 2009 5:55 am
Section: Columns on Culture and Media
Why is it that the United Statesprohibits me from being faithful in following my Lord and Savior‘s admonishment to imitate the example of the Good Samaritan?(Luke 10:29-37)
During my time in the desert, while walking the migrant trails with food and water [...]
December 6, 2009 – 7:06 am
Resource Guide for Undocumented Students
NCLR designed this student-friendly resource handbook to help undocumented students better prepare for postsecondary education options and, in particular, a college degree. The guide presents information on state-level initiatives which offer in-state tuition to undocumented students as well as information on the “Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.” [...]
November 2, 2009 – 8:52 pm
Events in Holland and Grand Rapids last week raised over $5,000 to support the legal services clinic. Sixty-five people filled Herrick District Library in Holland and nearly fifty people attended an evening event in the Parlor of First United Methodist Church in Grand Rapids to hear Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre speak about current [...]
October 29, 2009 – 8:19 pm
EDITORIAL
It’s time the U.S. take steps to keep thousands of migrants from dying attempting to cross into this country.
LA Times - October 29, 2009
Operation Gatekeeper started in October 1994, focusing federal border security efforts on the five-mile stretch from the Pacific Ocean to San Ysidro. Within three years, the budget of the old Immigration and [...]
May 13, 2009
Washington D.C. - Tomorrow, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Congressmen Adam Putnam (R-FL) and Howard Berman (D-CA) will introduce, in the Senate and House, the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security (AgJOBS) Act. AgJOBS is a bipartisan, compromise bill that is the result of years of negotiations among farmworkers, growers, and Members of Congress. The [...]
April 6, 2009
NY Times Editorial
It is more than bank failures and rising unemployment that give these troubled times echoes of the 1930s. An unfinished labor battle from the New Deal is being waged again.
The goal is to win basic rights that farm and domestic workers were denied more than 70 years ago, when the Roosevelt [...]
JFON-West Michigan is pleased to announce that Liz Balck will serve as our new Regional Attorney.
