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We provide ‘Know Your Rights’ Presentations, Updates on Anti-immigrant Laws, and Membership Drives.
MIRA has been traveling state wide to provide combined ‘Know Your Rights’ Presentations, updates on Arizona style anti-immigrant laws in the legislature, and membership drives.  In this way, we can provide valuable information to the communities, provide valuable benefits through our membership, and strengthen MIRA through increased support and funding.  If you are interested in MIRA presenting in your area, please call (601) 968-5182 or (601) 951-2086.  We ask that you help …

Laurel, MS — On August 25, 2010, a small group of people gathered to commemorate the second anniversary of a blow to civility, tolerance, justice, and freedom in Laurel, MS.  Two years ago, U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents descended on Howard Industries to rob 595 immigrants and migrant workers of their dignity and separate them from their families without warning or recourse.  For a second consecutive year, MIRA held a vigil for justice to remember those people and families whose lives …

About 200 workers, 4/5 of whom rode 3 hours from Gulfport/Biloxi, Laurel/Hattiesburg, and Pascagoula/D’Iberville, converged on the Mississippi State Capitol in one of the most powerful demonstrations of unity seen in MIRA policy advocacy events.   Babies, nursing mothers, high school students, workers and elderly immigrant leaders, mainly Latino, mounted busses in their communities early Wednesday morning, meeting up with immigrants from neighboring communities on the journey to Jackson.  Their mission?
“To show that the Latino community is no longer …