While Arizona’s tough new immigration laws have been attracting much national attention lately, several recent articles and columns suggest that illegal immigration has been on the decline in recent years, due to more federal enforcement and a wounded U.S. economy. Marisa Taylor reports for McClatchey Newspapers on several unauthorized immigrants living in Harrisonburg:
Monday, March 22, 2010
Although healthcare reform is dominating the lion’s share of headlines out of Capitol Hill, there was a large immigration reform rally on the mall in DC Sunday. Approximately 150 local Latino immigrants gathered on Wolfe Street Sunday morning, and loaded into buses chartered by Reform Immigration for America, to take the demonstrators to the March [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Last Friday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of dozens of unauthorized immigrants and fugitives wanted for various criminal activities. The operation netted 36 people statewide; 12 arrests were made in the Harrisonburg area.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
About two dozen Harrisonburg residents gathered in the parking lot near Klines in preparation to caravan to Farmville, Virginia to protest the approval of a new immigrant detention center there. The People United wants the Farmville town council to rescind their decision to allow Immigration Centers of America (ICA) to build a new facility there.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Governor Kaine’s Commission on Immigration held a public hearing at the Festival building at JMU earlier this evening.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
In Saturday’s paper, there’s an article about Iraqi refugees coming through the resettlement program to Harrisonburg, via the Virginia Council of Churches. I’m actually surprised that I haven’t posted anything about that program before.
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Friendly City Food Co-Op, Harrisonburg’s consumer-owned grocery, invites the community to come see its new destination for natural, organic and locally-produced products at the store’s grand opening 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 9 at 150 East Wolfe Street.
HARRISONBURG, VA — Friendly City Food Co-op, slated to open this month in Harrisonburg, Va., has become the newest member of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), a business services cooperative serving 120 consumer-owned food co-ops nationwide.
May 2: Harrisonburg was honored when the League of American Bicyclists announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) designations over the weekend to kick off May as National Bike Month.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
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