Released February 24th, 2016
ITEP
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 An updated 50-state study, Undocumented Immigrants’ State and Local Tax Contributions, by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy finds that undocumented immigrants’ tax contributions would increase significantly under the Obama Administration’s executive actions and even more substantially under comprehensive immigration reform granting  all undocumented immigrants lawful permanent residence.
The 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States collectively paid $11.64 billion in state and local taxes.  ITEP’s analysis finds their combined nationwide state and local tax contributions would increase by $805 million under full implementation of the administration’s 2012 and 2014 executive actions and by $2.1 billionunder comprehensive immigration reform.
“Regardless of the politically contentious nature of immigration reform, the data show undocumented immigrants greatly contribute to our nation's economy, not just in labor but also with tax dollars,” said Meg Wiehe, ITEP's State Tax Policy Director.

Read the Report on PDF format

Link to an NGO sign-on letter calling on President Obama to designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
The deadline to sign on is Friday, January 22, 2016. 
The letter is an initiative by our ally the National Immigrant Justice Center 
and comes to us via Alianza America
Click here or on the image below
(Only Organizations Please)

A 3 part story of a family separated by US immigration law, what is it like to live separated in two countries. In case you didn't know, there are 4.5 million American kids with at least one "undocumented parent" who are being affected in some way or another, like the De La Rosas family, by our broken immigration law, thanks in part to a billsigned by President Bill Clinton.  The "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act" of 1996.