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The Immigration Project's fall luncheon was framed around Tuesday's election results. Demian Kogan of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights was the keynote speaker.
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People from many cultures celebrated National Immigrants Day on Monday at the Bloomington Public Library.
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The presidential election will have significant implications for the nation's immigration policy.
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The Immigration Project and Home Sweet Home Ministries shelter are teaming up to put roughly $700,000 to use in helping recent arrivals in Bloomington-Normal and the unhoused.
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There are few issues that animate conservatives these days more than immigration and voter integrity. Bring those two issues together, and you have a bill proposed by a conservative lawmaker from Central Illinois.
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Panelists were both immigrants and advocates helping new arrivals in the Bloomington-Normal. They spoke about he ways immigrants can and do support one another, and their biggest challenges living in the community.
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The Immigration Project started a support group in July centered on healing migratory grief for Spanish-speakers in the region. There are currently around eight people in the closed group.
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It's getting harder, not easier, to find housing in Bloomington-Normal, according to an updated report from the McLean County Housing Coalition on area housing and homelessness.
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As head of the Normal-based nonprofit Immigration Project, Charlotte Alvarez connects immigrants living in 86 Illinois counties with legal aid and social service organizations as they navigate a convoluted, inefficient system.
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The mayor of Bloomington said he's glad the community had the discussion about spending public dollars on services to migrants who might be bused from the border to central Illinois. Mboka Mwilambwe said he's also pleased the McLean County Board rejected the proposed ban on such spending last week.