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Preaching Citizenship, DAI Engages 1,200 New Citizen Recruits

Posted on News by West/Southwest IAF · January 22, 2018 4:18 PM

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In a major push to sign up new (and potential) voters, Dallas Area Interfaith leaders recruited over 1,200 US legal permanent residents, green card holders, to apply for US citizenship this year. Catholic priests and lay leaders took to the pulpit to spread the word that a key element of the Catholic faith is participation in public life, which includes voting.

The Dallas Morning News had this to say:

We’re impressed by the Dallas Area Interfaith’s proactive effort to help green card holders become U.S. citizens. The coalition of church-based groups exceeded its goal of getting 1,000 people in a year on the road to becoming citizens by prepping them for the citizenship test and helping them fill out forms. In this volatile environment for conversation about immigration, it helps to have a safe place for folks to go to get through this complicated process. With that final step, legal tax-paying residents gain the full rights of citizenship, including the right to vote. That’s true democracy at work.

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Valley Interfaith Credited with Transforming Las Milpas

Posted on News by West/Southwest IAF · December 18, 2017 3:58 PM

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Library Breaks Ground, Valley Interfaith Celebrates Win

Posted on News by West/Southwest IAF · April 14, 2016 11:28 AM

Valley Interfaith celebrated the construction of a new library they had fought for, marking the first time in 20 years that "we feel, as citizens, as a community that we belong to the City of Pharr...it is an historic day." The library is the result of a protracted fight between Valley Interfaith leaders and the City of Pharr; the fight included success in signing up and turning out more than 1,000 new voters from Las Milpas.

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Valley Interfaith Shakes Up Pharr City Race, Advances Agenda with New Officials

Posted on News by West/Southwest IAF · May 18, 2015 10:55 AM
As a result of Valley Interfaith's impact on the recent Pharr city comissioners race, the newly constituted city commission has placed six of the organization's top agenda items on the agenda -- all of which are expected to be approved. At an accountability assembly three weeks prior, leader raised the issue of needed investments in parks, libraries, additional job training, a bridge across a canal to link two neighborhoods, curtailment of predatory lending, street paving and additional bus routes.

The Rio Grande Guardian reports:

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Valley Interfaith Decries Judge's Injunction, Reminds Immigrants that DACA Remains in Effect

Posted on News by West/Southwest IAF · February 26, 2015 9:22 AM

The press conference started with the story of teacher in 2001, invited from Mexico to teach in MacAllen in 2001 -- then disinvited when 9/11 attacks led to dramatic changes in the treatment of immigrants.

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Valley Interfaith Fights for Chemical Cleanup, Puts Weight Behind New Hospital District

Posted on News by West/Southwest IAF · October 25, 2014 10:45 AM
At an assembly with officials of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Valley Interfaith leaders argued that the failure to clean up a 33-acre benzene spill is behind the cancer and other illnesses impacting families living in the area. Leader Frank Pena alerted the assembly that while a legal settlement on the spill resulted in payouts, it did not result in needed environmental cleanup.

That same week, Valley Interfaith threw its political weight behind ballot Proposition 1 for the creation of a new hospital district to drawn down additional federal dollars expand and improve care for local residents.

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