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Translation to Arabic | Translation to most European Languages 4/12: Al-Arian Placed in Punitive Detention By Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace Dr. Al-Arian Placed in Punitive Detention 4/2: Feds to Fly More UAV Drones Along US Borders By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN - Associated Press Four Predator B drones (UAV) have become fixtures over Arizona since October 2006, and two more will join them soon, Juan Munoz-Torres, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman, said Wednesday.... 4/15: Immigrant Counter Recruitment Conf Call, 3/17 Immig C-R Meeting Report By Lee Siu Hin - National Immigrant Solidarity Network Thanks to you all for trekking out to So. Pasadena for a very fruitful discussion and some practical ideas regarding the call for an immigrant C-R campaign with a focus on the Dream Act.... 3/6 Jackson, Mississippi - legislation alert! By BOBBY HARRISON - Daily Journal Legislation was sent to Gov. Haley Barbour on Wednesday for stiff state penalties on undocumented immigrants and the employers who hire them.... 3/8: U.N. report criticizes U.S. treatment of migrants By Teresa Watanabe - Los Angeles Times The United States has failed to uphold its international obligations to protect the human rights of migrants, subjecting too many to prolonged detention in substandard facilities while depriving them of an adequate appeals process and labor protections, a United Nations investigator said.... 3/7: COURT RULES SECRETARY CHERTOFF VIOLATING THE LAW IN BUILDING BORDER WALL By Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Lipa In a 32-page decision issued, a federal judge in Brownsville ruled that Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff violated federal law in his rush to build several hundred miles of border fencing in Southern Texas.... 3/7: Community Resistance to Immigrant Scapegoating in Prince William County, VA By Mexicanos Sin Fronteras Prince William County, Virginia has become ‘ground zero’ in the war against immigrants. Prince William has implemented a draconian policy targeting the immigrant community. Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, a community-based, all volunteer organization, has been working tirelessly since last July to organize mass resistance.... 3/5: GOP senators to introduce toughest-yet immigration package By Nicole Gaouette - Los Angeles Times Bills would mandate prison time for border crossings and compel English in dealing with federal agencies.... 3/5: ACLU (and Coalition of Immigrant Orgs) FISA Letter to the Congress By American Civil Liberties Union and other Immigrant Rights Organizations We the undersigned organizations commend the House for refusing to yield to administration fear-mongering by passing the worst possible surveillance legislation – S. 2248, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2007. This bill would grant the administration unfettered access to all communications coming into or out of the United States without any meaningful court review or finding of wrongdoing and grant complete immunity to companies that cooperated with illegal wiretapping over the last several years.... 2/28 GRAND PRAIRIE, TX: Standoff ends with ICE agent's suicide in Grand Prairie By ANABELLE GARAY - Associated Press An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed himself after an armed standoff with an officer and three colleagues, and police discovered a suitcase full of pornography, a flag bearing a swastika and more than a half dozen weapons.... 2/26: Calling to Create Immigrant Counter-Recruitment Campaign By Lee Siu Hin - National Immigrant Solidarity Network National Immigrant Solidarity Network, is calling for establishing a immigrant counter recruitment working group, to work with immigrant gold-star families, immigrant-based antiwar groups and United for Peace and Justice to formulate a national immigrant counter-recruitment strategies.... 2/20: Ex-GOP lobbyist had no work permit By Lance Williams,Carla Marinucci - San Francisco Chronicle A former California Republican Party official who resigned last year in a controversy over his immigration status had no valid visa or work permit during his high-profile career as a Washington lobbyist for conservative icon Grover Norquist, newly filed court records show.... 2/18 Indiana Statehouse Anti-Immigration Legislation Moves Forward By Nicole Pence - indianasnewscenter.com It's being labeled as one of the toughest undocumented immigration bills in the country.... Lee Siu Hin: Report from 2/9-10 Protest RNC Organizing Meting at Minneapolis, MN By Lee Siu Hin - National Immigrant Solidarity Network Over 100 activists from across the country and diverse backgrounds, (instead of going to Florida) beating the freezing negative 16 degrees weather, came to attend the first Sept 1st RNC protest organizing meeting, host by Coalition to March the RNC and Stop the War.... 2/10: $1.2 billion fence adds little or no security By Luis Alberto Urrea - San Francisco Chronicle This hotly contested stretch of sand and cinders stands to become a beneficiary of the $1.2 billion border fence that will seal off the southern American border. Well, it will seal off part of it. OK - it will seal off small areas of the border.... 2/9: The Migrant Workers’ Struggle in South Korea and International Solidarity By Wol-san Liem - International Solidarity Coordinator, Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants’ Trade Union As the issue of immigration has come to center stage in policy debate in the United States over the last several years, grassroots organizations, NGOs and labor unions have put forth strong calls for increased rights form immigrants, pathways to citizenship and an end to raids and deportations.... 1/31: DHS Announces $12.14 Billion for Border Security & Immigration Enforcement Efforts By Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)Secretary Michael Chertoff previewed today a 19 percent increase over Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 in funding for border security and immigration enforcement efforts in FY 2009. This represents a more than 150 percent increase since President Bush has been in office, enabling the department to fulfill its border infrastructure, fencing and personnel goals by the end of 2008.... By Seton Hall Law School’s Center for Social Justice (CSJ) and the Brazilian Voice Seton Hall Law School’s Center for Social Justice (CSJ) and the Brazilian Voice filed suit today in federal court under the Freedom of Information Act (the FOIA) to compel the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release documents regarding its practice of executing pre-dawn, warrantless raids of immigrants’ homes throughout the state of New Jersey.... 1/29 Bridgeton, NJ: Two face deportation By SEAN C. McCULLEN - Bridgeton News Two men are facing deportation after they were charged with assaulting a 25-year-old Cedar Street man late Friday afternoon a few doors down from the victim's home.... 1/26: Okla. Immigration Law Blamed for Death By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS - Associated Press Edgar Castorena had diarrhea for 10 days and counting, and the undocumented immigrant parents of the 2-month-old didn't know what to do about it.... 1/27: The NNIRR and Immigration Reform: Time for a Clear Alternative By Richard D. Vogel The National Conference for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (January 18-20) organized by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights(NNIRR) took place during a critical period in U.S. immigration history.... 1/15 Westhampton, NY: Crackdown on L.I. Landlords Is Criticized as Harassment of Immigrants By COREY KILGANNON - The New York Times The officers showed up at 6 a.m. at the four connected apartments on Old Country Road. They went from bedroom to bedroom, waking children and photographing the premises and the residents, who all were Latino immigrants, of varying legal status.... 1/26 Florence, AZ: Citizen jailed as illegal entrant despite denial, Southern accent By Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an undocumented immigrant from Russia.... 1/24: WA/Info on GEO's ICE prison in Tacoma By Portland Independent MEdia Center The Northwest Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, Detention Center is a private immigration prison facility located on the tide flats of Tacoma, Washington.... 1/15: NYCPP Statement on Driver's Licenses and REAL ID By New York Civic Participation Project NYCPP continue to oppose local implementation of the REAL ID Act and urge the Federal government to abandon it.... 1/18: DHS Announce Begin Requirements for Travel Document at Border Crossing By U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS ENDS ORAL DECLARATIONS AT BORDERS, 1/14: 2008 Analysis: Immigrant Congressional Legislation, Presidential Race By National Immigration Forum 1/3: Haitian Immigrant Acquitted in Terrorism Case Faces Deportation, Retrial By Asociated Press A U.S. jury did not think Lyglenson Lemorin was involved in a terrorism conspiracy to topple Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices, but he did not walk out of court a free man. Instead, federal agents took the legal U.S. resident to Georgia, where he remained facing possible deportation to his native Haiti, his attorneys said.... 1/6: Deported! Surprising details on who can get the boot By Diem Ly - International Examiner What’s considered a “deportable crime” is widening - at the expense of families and people’s rights.... 12/28: Huckabee Sees Pakistan as Reason for Border Fence By Katharine Q. Seelye and David D. Kirkpatrick - New York Times Mike Huckabee used the volatile situation in Pakistan Friday to make an argument for building a fence on the American border with Mexico and found himself trying to explain a series of remarks about Pakistanis and their nation.... 12/20: Labor and Immigration: Looking Beyond the Elections By http://laborstrategies.blogs.com Right-wing politicians are trying to fan the flames of passion over immigration during the current election campaign. So far they have met with mixed success, but as the election nears and the Right becomes more desperate, we can expect their efforts to intensify and the flames to grow higher. How should labor respond? 12/22: Male Day Laborers Turn to Prostitution By Claudia Núñez - La Opinion As harsh immigration measures punish those that employ undocumented workers, an investigation by La Opinión newspaper found that large numbers of male day laborers are now being targeted for a different kind of underground activity: sex work.... 12/27: Women Are the New Coyotes By Claudia Núñez, New America Media "Gaviota" (not her real name) has six phones that don't stop ringing. Her booming business produces net profits of more than $50,000 a month. She has dozens of customers lining up for her in a datebook stretching three months ahead.... 12/27: Anti-Immigrant Radio Hosts Descend On Iowa By Sandip Roy - New America Media Concurrent with the presidential candidates' face off in Iowa is the battle of the radio airwaves, with more than 20 conservative talk show hosts well known for their anti-immigration positions broadcasting from Des Moines. NAM Editor Sandip Roy is host of Up Front radio, on KALW 91.7 FM.... 12/25: Undocumented workers' arrests up, few bosses pay a price By Spencer S. Hsu - Washington Post Only 2% of criminal charges involved those who did hiring.... 12/13: Planning the War on Immigrants By Tom Barry - Americas Program Commentary That's what is happening in America, as politicians and political candidates at all levels of government join the anti-immigration bandwagon. Meanwhile, immigrants who do the dirtiest work in America are living in fear as they face a generalized immigration crackdown and stepped-up immigration raids.... 12/18 Arizonia: Sick Boy Sent to His Death in Mexico by Nuns By Tegan Georges - The Long Island Wins Blob You can't make up a headline like the one I've got above: a few months ago, an undocumented high school senior named Joe Arvizu in Arizona was taken to local Catholic hospital after a head injury, where doctors discovered that he had leukemia. Because Joe's family was poor and because he was not a US citizen, the hospital - knowing that Medicaid would cover the emergency care he received, but not longer term cancer treatments - loaded Joe into an ambulance and sent him to a hospital across the border in Agua Prieta.... 12/19: SPLC Uncovers Prominent Anti-Immigration Group's Racist History By Heidi Beirich - Intelligence Report, Southern Poverty Law Center Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Marked by Ties to White Supremacy.... 12/18 New Heaven,CT: Questions on Immigrants Lead to Raid on Nonprofit’s Office By GEORGIA KRAL - New York Times As Connecticut grapples with the remnants of a weekend storm and shivers in sub-freezing temperatures, a nonprofit group that helps many poor residents pay their heating bills is reeling after federal agents raided its offices on Thursday December 11. 12/18 Pittsburgh, PA: IMAM KADIR GUNDUZ DETAINED BY IMMIGRATION, YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED! By Sister Angel - Islamic Center of Pittsburgh The Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, ICP, regrets to inform the Pittsburgh community that Imam Kadir Gunduz has been detained by the United States Customs and Immigration Enforcement (USICE) and we are still in the process of gathering more information about the issue.... 12/18: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, "migrants are assets to society" By Agencies Dec 18 marks the eighth International Migrants Day, an occasion that grows more meaningful with each passing year.... 12/14 Tijuana, BC, Mexico: Tijuana enclave feels sting of escalating border strife By Richard Marosi - Los Angeles Times In an escalation of clashes between U.S. Border Patrol agents and rock-throwing smugglers, agents have begun launching pepper spray and tear gas into densely populated Mexican border neighborhoods, according to witnesses, Mexican authorities and human rights groups.... 12/13: DHS announces $35 million to "assist" states in preparing for REAL ID By Deaprtment of Homeland Security Department of Homeland Security today announces $35 million to "assist" states in preparing for racist anti-immigrant REAL ID implementation.... 12/1: Anti-Immigrant Tom Tancredo Hired Undocumented Laborers to Renovate His McMansion By Max Blumenthal - AlterNet Anti-immigration zealot and GOP presidential candidate Tom Tancredo hired what he often refers to as "criminal aliens" to renovate his Colorado house.... 5/1-3 2008 Washington DC: Calling for La Gran Marcha Nacional 2008, "A Million Immigrant March" By Jesse Diaz, Jr., La Hermandad Mexicana Transnacional, Inland Empire, CA For over a year now we have conceived a march on Washington DC, not a regional march, but a national one. We have worked together yet we have worked apart.... 11/16 Great piece on"Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terorism Prevention Act" By Jessica Lee - NYC Independent Media Center Bringing the War on Terrorism Home: Congress Considers How to ¡®Disrupt¡¯ Radical Movements in the United States 11/15: LOS ANGELES, CA: LAPD abandon plan to map city's Muslims By Agence France Presse, Los Angeles Times LAPD have abandoned a controversial anti terrorism plan that would have created a compute database of the city's Muslim population.... 11/8: Senators Call for H1-B "High-Tech" Visa Alternative By Roy Mark e-Week With an increase of H1-B visas stalled in Congress, 19 U.S. senators Nov. 8 called for Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to expand the Optional Practical Training program for foreign students from the current 12 months to 29 months.... 11/13 New York: Gov. Spitzer Dropping His License Plan By DANNY HAKIM - New York Times Gov. Eliot Spitzer is abandoning his plan to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, saying that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward with such a policy.... 11/13 BROWNSVILLE, TX: Mayors Want to Widen Rio Grande By Robin Emmott - Reuters Texan mayors opposed to a planned border fence with Mexico want to widen and deepen the Rio Grande river instead, and say it will be more effective in keeping out migrants.... 11/13 San Francisco, CA: New SF ID cards for residents - whether in the country legally or not By Wyatt Buchanan - SF Chronicle The Board of Supervisors voted today to make San Francisco the largest U.S. city to issue municipal identification cards to its residents, regardless of whether or not they are in the country legally.... 11/11 Calexico, CA: Border Patrol Attacks Demonstrators as No Borders Camp Closes By San Farncisco Bay Independent Media Center On the evening of November 11th, participants in the first No Borders Camp on the US-Mexico border dismantled the camp and marched west on either side of what has become a 15 foot wall dividing Mexicali (Mexico) and Calexico (United States), converging on the port of entry to protest the militarized border.... 11/15 Alert! TAKE ACTION Against Anti-Immigrant Enforcement-Only Bill "SAVE Act" By Lee Siu Hin - National Immigrant Solidarity Network We encourages you to write, FAX and call the bill sponsor Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) and the 105 cosponsors. NO to the racist anti-immigrant SAVE Act! and we need a TRUE, HUMANE immigration reform! By Lee Siu Hin - National Immigrant Solidarity Network Another shameful right-wing racist propaganda, this time at right-wing web blog "Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin" claims "Islamic Terrorists plotted setting U.S. fires" at California.... 10/29: Rights Groups Claim Immigrants Were Targeted During Wildfire Evacuations By Jessica Pupovac - AHN News Writer Immigrant rights groups in San Diego are reporting widespread "racial profiling" during southern California's wildfire evacuations, which they say could have kept thousands of immigrants from receiving vital services.... 10/28: FAKE CNN website accusing Mexican-American student groups MEChA of setting CA fires RACIST PERSON(s) have acquired and post Criminal accusations against innocent people.... 10/23 Dallas, TX: Mistrial in Holy Land "terrorism" financing case By Greg Krikorian - Los Angeles Times The government's prosecution of a now-defunct Islamic charity collapses in confusion after initial verdicts are read.... 10/23: Blackwater's run for the border By Eilene Zimmerman - Salon Magazine The notorious security contractor has plans for a military-style complex near the U.S. Mexico border. Critics worry the firm's "mercenary soldiers" could join the U.S. Border Patrol.... 9/15 Lumphin, GA: Prisoners' rights group marches to immigration detention ctr By Associated Press A southwest Georgia civil rights and prison advocacy group ended a weeklong 105-mile march with a protest Saturday outside a private prison that houses about 1,600 undocumented immigrants.... 9/17: A military route to citizenship - Plan for undocumented youths stirs debate By Daniel González - The Arizona Republic Hundreds of thousands of undocumented-immigrant youths could become eligible to join the military to offset shortages of qualified recruits under a bill pending in Congress.... 9/6: Immigrant raids spur training on immigrant "know your rights" By Maria Sacchetti - The Boston Globe Advocacy groups teach immigrants to protect selves.... 9/6: Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act By The Associated Press A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court’s approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers.... 9/6 Los Angeles, CA: 164 more claims filed over May Day 2007 MacArthur Park Police Attack By David Zahniser - Los Angeles Times Civil rights lawyers say they aim to pursue a class-action lawsuit against Los Angeles and the LAPD.... 9/4 Minneapolis, MN: Minn. Meatpackers Sue Over Federal Raid By GREGG AAMOT - Associated Press A lawsuit filed Tuesday claims that federal immigration agents who raided a meatpacking plant detained Hispanic workers, hurled racial epithets at them and forced the women among them to take off their clothes, while white workers were spared the harsh treatment.... 9/3 Prince William County, VA: Thousands Denounce Immigration Measure At Immigrant Rally By Bill Turque - Washington Post Carrying American flags and chanting "Si, se puede" ("Yes, we can"), several thousand Latinos rallied at the seat of Prince William County government yesterday to denounce the Board of Supervisors' plan to curb services to undocumented immigrants.... 9/1: Son joins Elvira Arellano in Mexico By Associated Press The 8-year-old son of deported immigrant activist Elvira Arellano was reunited with her Friday at Mexico City's airport. Arellano said she wants her son, Saul, a U.S. citizen, to go to school in her home state of Michoacan so he can learn Spanish.... 9/2: A sanctuary for immigrants By Grace Dyrness and Clara Irazábal - Los Angeles Times The movement that spawned Elvira Arellano hopes that showcasing a few individuals will illustrate the plight of millions.... By AFL-CIO, ACLU, and NILC A federal judge today issued an order temporarily blocking the government from implementing a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule that would cause U.S. citizens and other authorized workers to lose their jobs, and which would illegally use error-prone social security records as a tool for immigration enforcement.... 8/18: Washington State Labor Council adopts a strong Immigrant Rights Resolution By Steve Hoffman - WFSE Local 304 On Saturday, August 18, 2007, delegates to the annual Washington State Labor Council Convention voted enthusiastically and overwhelmingly for a resolution that pledges to defend the rights of immigrants. 8/31 Boston, MA: Raids by ICE--a psychological war that terrifies our communities By BOSTON MAY DAY COALITION ICE tactics lately has been to present their operations as going after "criminal immigrants".... 8/29 Williamsburg, VA: Labor Protest Against Smithfield Annual Meeting By Reuter and Associated Press Several-hundred union activists from across the country protest in Williamsburg, Virginia, where the U.S. meat company held its annual shareholders meeting.... 8/28: Arellano Deportation Highlights Economic Insecurity for Millions By Francis Calpotura, AlterNet For the millions of immigrants who have left their countries due to the failed economic policies of the past twenty-five years, this week's arrest and deportation of Elvira Arellano and resulting separation from her only child is nothing new.... 8/29: AFL-CIO, ACLU and National Immigration Law Center Challenge New Homeland Security Rule By AFL-CIO/ACLU/NILC Groups File Lawsuit Charging DHS Rule Would Cause Widespread Discrimination and Harm U.S. Citizens and Other Authorized Workers.... 8/28 US-Mexico Border: The Border’s Summer of Discontent By Frontera NorteSur (FNS) It's as if all the contradictions of the US War on Terror, immigration reform, US-Mexico relations, free trade, and sagging economies on both sides of the border have burst at the seams, and at the same time. As the record hot summer of 2007 crawls to a close, the political barometer on the US-Mexico border is tipping red.... 8/28 Omaha, NB: Nazi Group To Stage Protest Against Immigration By Julie Farby - AHN News Nazi protesters are slated to march at the Mexican Consulate in Omaha on Saturday [9/1], protesting what the Omaha right-wing extremist group leader Col. Tim Bishop calls a threat to the "White Aryan Caucasian People." 8/28: The No. of Immigrant Workers in Unions Has Grown by 30%t in last 10 Yrs. By Colleen Coffey - Migration Policy Institute The number of immigrant wage and salary workers who were union members grew by 30 percent from 1996 to 2006, as the number of immigrant workers in the U.S. wage and salary workforce increased by 66 percent. Meanwhile, the number of native-born wage and salary workers in unions decreased by about 9 percent.... 8/28 Seattle, WA: Inflaming fears doesn't make anyone safe By ROBERT L. JAMIESON JR. - Seattle Post-Intelligencer IT'S OFFICIAL: We live in a republic of fear. And when fear runs rampant, our good sense escapes us. Photos, which spread across the city and state last week, showed two Middle Eastern-looking men accused of seeming suspicious on state ferries.... 8/28 Fairfield, OH: Immigration raids Koch Foods Ohio chicken plant By Andrea Hopkins - Reuters More than 300 U.S. immigration agents raided the Koch Foods Inc. chicken plant in Fairfield, Ohio, and arrested more than 160 employees as part of a criminal operation against undocumented immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).... By International Conference on Defending and Promoting the Basic Rights of Migrant Workers The basic labor rights of migrant workers, who now suffer greatly from low wages, exploitation, and industrial accidents due to anti-human rights and anti-labor policies, must be protected! 8/10: Bush's Racist Anti-Immigrant "26 Points" By The White House Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff And Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Announced A Series Of 'Reforms' The Administration Will Pursue To Address Border Security And Immigration 'Challenges'.... 8/23 Houston, TX: Driver in migrant deaths gets more prison time By The Associated Press Now serving life, he's sentenced on other charges in tragedy that killed 19 Stand and be counted.... 8/27 Los Angeles, CA: Vigil for Victoria Arellano-Latina Transgender Die in ICE Detention By Coral Lopez - Bienestar On July 20, Victoria Arellano, a Latina Transgender woman who was living with HIV died after being denied medical attention at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)detention center in San Pedro, CA.... 8/23: KEEP IMMIGRANT FAMILY UNITY! REINSTATE 245 (i) By Vicenta Montoya, Esq. - NISN Legislative Working Group Through the reinstatement of 245 (i) these family members could become permanent residents INSIDE the United States.... 8/20: Elvira Arellano Arrest Decried by Faith Community By Charese Jordan - Interfaith Worker Justice Statement from the New Sanctuary Movement. 8/19 Emergency Alert! Immig Activist Elvira Arellano Arrested in Los Angeles! By National Immigrant Solidarity Network Emergency Alert! Immigrant Activist Elvira Arellano Arrested in Los Angeles! Your URGENT Support is Needed! 8/11 New Haven, CT: Immigrant Advocates Sue Over June Raids By Courant Staff Report Two immigrant advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security to force the agency to turn over records tied to immigration raids made in June, two days after the city approved a landmark ID-card program.... 8/16: Support Immigrant Struggle at Prince William County, VA By John Steinbach On Thursday, August 9, fifty solidarity activists attended an organizing meeting in Manassas, with participants coming from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Following a presentation explaining the crisis, there was a discussion about how participants could express solidarity.... 8/10: White House announcement about DHS enforcement strategies By Rights Working Group The Bush Administration released a fact sheet describing a new interior enforcement and border security strategy. The 26 point plan includes provisions on border security, interior enforcement, worksite enforcement, citizenship, and changes to our existing temporary worker programs, among other provisions.... 8/10: Administration Announces Worksite, Border, and Interior Enforcement Initiatives By National Immigration Forum The Administration today (8/10) announced a number of immigration enforcement initiatives that promise to make life much more difficult for undocumented immigrants and may throw into chaos sectors of the economy that now rely on workers for which we have so far provided very few opportunities to work legally in this country.... National Immigrant Solidarity Network Points of Unity By National Immigrant Solidarity Network National Immigrant Solidarity Network 2007 - 2008 Strategic Immigrant Campaign Framework By National Immigrant Solidarity Network Based on the feedback from our members and allies we had formulated our 2007-2008 Strategic Immigrant Campaign Strategy during our July 27-29 National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference in Richmond, VA. This is a non-binding resolution, that will only provide you a menu of suggested actions that can guide and encourage your local organization to discuss and choose which action(s) you would like to focus on in order to organize with us. 8/8: California Man Deported to Mexico Found By PETER PRENGAMAN - ASSOCIATED PRESS A wrongly deported U.S. citizen who was missing for nearly three months in Mexico ate out of garbage cans, bathed in rivers and was repeatedly turned away by U.S. border agents when he tried to return to California, his family said.... 7/31: Long Beach, CA: Liliana’s Fight--Growing Church Sanctuary Movement Has A New Face By Mexica Movement She is a prisoner, but she is not a criminal. She is a devoted mother, wife, and daughter. She had a full-time job, a driver’s license, and paid her taxes. But for the last two months, Liliana (last name withheld) has taken on a new role. She is taking sanctuary within Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church in Long Beach.... By Fernando Suárez Del Solar An Open Letter to Latino and Latina students and all leaders of immigrant rights organizations.... 7/25: Illegal Immigrants: Uncle Sam Wants You By Deborah Davis - In These Times Latino teenagers, including illegal immigrants are being recruited into the military with false promises..... 7/29 Richmond-Dispatch: Conference at UR on immigrant solidarity By MARGARET MATRAY, RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH Carlos Arredondo's son, Alexander Scott Arredondo, was 14 the first time he was approached by a military recruiter.... NISN 2007 - 2008 Strategic Immigrant Campaign Proposal (July 4, 2007 Draft) By Lee Siu Hin - National Immigrant Solidarity Network Based on the feedback from our members, allies, National Immigrant Solidarity network will formulate our 2007-2008 strategic immigrant campaign strategy, to be discuss, modify and adopt during our July 27-29 National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference at Richmond, VA. 6/28: Senate Blocks Effort to Revive Immigration Overhaul By ROBERT PEAR and JOHN HOLUSHA - New York Times The Senate voted today to effectively block efforts to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, meaning that the issue is most likely dead until after the 2008 elections.... 6/30: Immigration battle shifting to states, cities By Dave Montgomery - McClatchy Washington Bureau The result, advocates on both sides of the issue say, could be a patchwork of laws and ordinances with vastly different approaches, ranging from measures that harshly penalize undocumented immigrants and their employers to the spread of "sanctuary cities" that prohibit police from questioning suspects about their immigration status.... 6/30: Experts say failure of Senate immigration bill can be lesson for U.S. Congress By Robert Pear -- The International Herald Tribune Congress can learn important lessons from the demise of the Senate immigration bill, and those lessons should inform future efforts to tackle the issue, experts on immigration said... | ||
