Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Take Action: I Voted for Immigration Reform! …You Should Too

Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Our nation urgently needs an effective and practical immigration system that will reflect the best of America's values. Please join President Moran and our LULAC members across the country in holding in-district meetings with your elected representatives to urge their support of a Comprehensive Immigration Reform package that will:

• Allow undocumented workers already in the U.S. to contribute to the U.S. economy and society by providing them with a pathway to citizenship;
• Reduce the backlog of individuals seeking residency or citizenship;
• Recognize that immigrants are an integral part of the U.S. labor force by addressing employment-based immigration needs and reforming the visa system for issuing permanent and temporary visas for high-skilled & low-skilled workers – this will allow workers to fill jobs already available to them and will better position the U.S. in the global economy and the global labor recruitment arena;
• Ensure strong worker protections are in place before any "guest worker" type provisions are considered,
• Reunite American families by allowing a U.S. citizen or permanent resident to sponsor their same-sex partner for immigration to the U.S., a right which is currently denied - this will not redefine marriage and would not repeal the Defense of Marriage Act law – however, it will benefit both these American citizens and the companies which employ them here in the U.S.; and
• Address our enforcement needs in a manner that is just, and consistent with our existing due process and civil rights laws.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Process

A Nation of Immigrants

Throughout our country's history, immigrants have contributed immensely to our culture, our economy, our defense and our national pride. Almost all citizens of the United States are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants and each new generation of immigrants has reinvigorated our nation with the values and work ethic that has made America great. Our common experience has demonstrated that immigration is good for America, whether your ancestors arrived before the Declaration of Independence or just a generation ago. LULAC calls upon Congress and the President to embrace and uphold America's tradition as a nation of immigrants and pass comprehensive immigration reform that allows hard working immigrants and their families to become permanent legal residents of the United States.

Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

News & Alerts

Important Immigration Links

• LULAC vs INS
• Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC)
• Anti-Defamation League Report: Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• American Immigration Law Foundation
• Center of Human Rights & Constitutional Law
• Farmworker Justice
• Nat. Immigration Forum
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
• Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants (PDF Format)
• MALDEF