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This memo contains some suggestions on overall themes and some additional tools the immigrant rights movement has developed.

This week's Immigration Blog Roundup will cover state and federal updates, new research, and more...

This week's Immigration Blog Roundup will cover new research on the economic impact of immigrants, detention issues, the March for America on March 21st, and more...

This week's blog roundup covers new research on immigration, state and federal policy news, and more...

This week's Immigration Blog Roundup includes the State of the Union Address, state news, new research on immigration, and more...

This week's Immigration Blog Roundup will cover key players in immigration reform, policy news, and more...

This week's Immigration Blog Roundup will cover national policy, new research, state news, and more.

This week's Immigration Blog Roundup will cover some policy news, newly released research on immigration and more.

This week's immigration blog roundup will cover news on immigration reform, health care, and more.

This week's immigration blog roundup will cover some state news, a short video on immigrants' experiences with the U.S. immigration system, and more.

Immigration officials are considering further increases in citizenship application fees.  The fee is currently over $675, which is a 69% increase.  The hike has led to a drop in applications from 254,000 to 58,000 last year.

This week's immigration blog roundup will cover health care reform and more.

About a quarter of American tech companies are founded by immigrants.  Immigrant entrepreneurs who have contributed to the tech industry include Intel's former CEO, Yahoo's co-founder, and Google's co-founder.  Immigrant-founded firms produced over $50 billion in sales and employ nearly half a million people in 2005.

This week's immigration blog roundup will cover a number of new studies on immigration issues, some upcoming immigration-related events, and more.

A new survey of low-wage legal immigrant, undocumented immigrant and native-born American workers found that they are consistently paid less than the minimum wage and are not compensated for overtime work.  The study was conducted in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

This week's immigration roundup will cover comprehensive immigration reform, detentions, and more.

Today there will be a meeting at the White House on immigration reform.  You can submit your questions for the Reform Immigration FOR America folks to ask Secretary Janet Napolitano here. 

 Opportunity is the light that illuminates the path taken by immigrants. Yet, it, too often, is extinguished by the will of the majority who seek an opportunity of their own. This has become clear during the past six months, since the economic crisis weighed its heavy burden onto the shoulders of Americans. Nevertheless, millions of immigrants continue their sojourn toward becoming active members of our society, and laying the groundwork toward progress.