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Pramila Jayapal is a Distinguished Taconic Fellow at the Center for Community Change and Distinguished Fellow at the University of Washington Law School.
Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal is a Distinguished Taconic Fellow at the Center for Community Change and Distinguished Fellow at the University of Washington Law School.
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April 4, 2014
Editor’s Note: More than 1,200 women from 70 organizations are fasting in 35 states for immigration reform that keeps families together and treats women fairly this month. The month of fasting will culminate April 7-9th, 2014 when 100 women will fast in DC for 48 hours. Click here to sign the petition urging Speaker Boehner to meet with these courageous women in DC in April. On Monday, I stood in front of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma because I can’t imagine living with the fear that my son could be torn from me at any moment. In the few hours that I stood in front of the detention...
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April 10, 2013
This article originally appeared in Colorlines and was re-published here with the author's permission. If you’ve been following the current debate and news coverage, you probably think that immigration reform is mainly about men—the undocumented males scaling border walls, working in agriculture, doing construction work and writing code. And when you do see women, they are normally portrayed either as helpless victims of detention or deportation or as conniving leeches delivering what anti-immigrants call “anchor babies.” Between this male-centered media narrative, and the fact that the...
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February 4, 2013
This article first appeared in Crosscut.com . It’s game on for immigration reform in 2013 . Prospects for a real immigration bill this year took a big step forward last week as a bipartisan “Gang of Eight” Senators released its framework for an immigration bill , and President Obama staked out his own position with a speech and a written set of principles. Washington State stands to benefit greatly from an inclusive, humane and comprehensive immigration reform bill. This two-part series will analyze the core elements of last week's two immigration proposals. (Neither is a bill yet, just the...
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December 11, 2012
As President Obama and Congress members begin to break down immigration, we need to imagine a world where migration and immigration are embraced. Here is a video, in which I break down immigration reform and why we need it--for our economy but also for our souls and our future. Thanks for watching!
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September 27, 2011
There’s a myth out there that immigration is complex—even controversial. But the truth is that the issue of immigration may be the simplest and clearest thing that binds us all together. With the exception of our Native American brothers and sisters who were here long before any of us came and who didn’t have the luxury of asking people for their papers when their land was taken over, we are all immigrants or descended from immigrants—willing and unwilling, transported on slave ships or shipped in labor, escaping famine and war or economic devastation, seeking a better life for ourselves and...
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