CHIRLA "Educating, Organizing, Advocating"

We hope everyone had a good Labor Day! Check out some of the latest immigration news from the past week.

President Felipe Calderon blasted U.S. immigration policies on Sunday and promised to fight harder to protect the rights of Mexicans in the U.S.

• Read the article in the Washington Post.

New Orleans is getting rebuilt thanks to immigrant labor. Unemployment is at historic lows even with influx of Latino workers.

• Read the article in the Los Angeles Times.

Gustavo Arellano compares Elvira Arellano (no relation) to Jesus not to Rosa Parks.

• Read the article in the OC Weekly.

The CIS (an anti-immigration group) issued a report purporting to show how we will be "overwhelmed" by immigration in the next 50 years if we don’t cut immigration. Ben Wattenberg, a supporter of immigration from the right, disputed the CIS facts and conclusions on CNN.

• Read the article from Copely News Service.

From massive marches to May Day 2007, from H.R. 4437 to congressional inaction, the immigrant rights movement is changing, but the need for reform is greater than ever before.

• Read about the movement in Los Angeles in L.A. City Beat.