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Translation to Arabic | Translation to most European Languages 2/3: Riverside Border Patrol shifts focus, union and community activists say By DAVID OLSON A year after a U.S. Border Patrol sweep of a Riverside day-labor site unleashed street protests and condemnations by immigrant-rights groups, the Riverside Border Patrol office may have shifted tactics. 2/1: Obama beef up militization the border/anti-immigrant policy in 2011 budget By Meredith Simons The Department of Homeland Security unveiled a $56.3 billion budget Monday that includes funding for the virtual border fence, E-Verify, and an increase in the number of border patrol officers and intelligence analysts along the southern border. 1/18: NY Times: Guatemala Protests Arrest of 3 in Florida Over Passports By JULIA PRESTON The Guatemalan government has issued a public protest after three Guatemalans were arrested this month by immigration agents at a Federal Express office in Florida, when one of the immigrants went to pick up a package containing his newly issued Guatemalan passport. 1/27: Projo: Alleged police brutality victim faces deportation By Gregory Smith The U.S. government is moving to deport Luis Mendonca, 20, of Pawtucket, the man who is at the center of investigations of alleged brutality by the Providence police, according to his lawyer. 1/27: 2/19-21 Herndon, VA: Shut Down The Racist American Renaissance Conference!! By SiuHin Beginning on Monday, January 18, a campaign to call the Dulles Airport Westin generated so many calls that the hotel assigned someone to deal with the complaints. Initially, the situation was promising. The Westin promised us that it was going to cancel the contract with the America Renaissance group, also known as the New Century Foundation. By the end of the day, numerous individuals left messages, made complaints and the Sales Director, David Catalan (sp?), stopped answering his phone nor did he return voicemails. 1/15: Haiti Didn't Become a Poor Nation All on Its Own -- The U.S's Hidden Role in the Disaster By Carl Lindskoog In the hours following Haiti's devastating earthquake, CNN, the New York Times and other major news sources adopted a common interpretation for the severe destruction: the 7.0 earthquake was so devastating because it struck an urban area that was extremely over-populated and extremely poor. Houses "built on top of each other" and constructed by the poor people themselves made for a fragile city. And the country's many years of underdevelopment and political turmoil made the Haitian government ill-prepared to respond to such a disaster. 1/19: Homeless Haitians Told Not to Flee to U.S. By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. MIAMI — America has a message for the millions of Haitians left homeless and destitute by last week’s earthquake: Do not try to come to the United States. 1/21: Retired 3-star: U.S. should take Haiti refugees By Cain Burdeau - The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who was credited with restoring order in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, is calling on the United States, and in particular the governors along the Gulf Coast, to offer refuge to the most vulnerable Haitians affected by the deadly Jan. 12 earthquake. 1/22: ICE SWAT team breaks up hunger strike protest by immigration detainees in NY By NINA BERNSTEIN Agents in riot gear from Immigration and Customs 1/8: C-M-R REPORTS : African migrants riot over 'racist' attack in Italy By Campaign For Migrants Rights Several people have been injured in rioting that broke out in southern Italy after an attack on immigrant farm workers by local youths. 1/13: 1/12 URGENT! Strong 7.1 Quake Hits Haiti, Hospital Collapses! By SiuHin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A major earthquake in Haiti prompted a tsunami watch for parts of the Caribbean, including the impoverished nation, neighboring Dominican Republic, Cuba and the Bahamas, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said on Tuesday. By Stephen Lemons In a conversation this morning via phone, Tucson native and rock legend Linda Ronstadt denounced Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of tyranny in Maricopa County and promised to march alongside thousands of activists planning to converge on Phoenix this Saturday, January 16 for a National Day of Action, which will include a walk to Arpaio's jails and a rally and concert afterwards. 1/15: City Hospital Chief Calls for Coverage of Immigrants By KEVIN SACK The leader of New York City’s massive public hospital system warned this week that the health care bills in Congress would burden safety net hospitals by failing to provide coverage for uninsured immigrants while also reducing federal payments for indigent care. 12/27: LAPD Checkpoints: Today and next Saturday! Spread the word! By Ron Gochez Union del Barrio makes the call to all working class people in general and to Raza in particular to educate and organize in our communities to defend ourselves from these racist police/sheriff checkpoints that are strategically placed in predominantly Raza and African communities. They know that many in our community are undocumented so they capitalize on this by attacking our neighborhoods with these checkpoints to legally steal our people's vehicles! We call on the Raza and African community to continue to join, organize and build together to combat these attacks that see both of us as the enemy! 12/31: New figures show (another) drop in Mexicans coming to the US By Sara Miller Llana Staff writer The number of Mexicans leaving the country to go abroad in the third quarter of this year dropped nearly 10 percent from the same period last year and fell about 40 percent compared to the number in 2007, as the recession in the US continued to discourage would-be immigrants. 1/1: For Ailing Illegal Immigrants, Return Home Brings No Relief By KEVIN SACK EJIDO MODELO, Mexico — On the two-hour bus rides from her village on Lake Chapala to a dialysis clinic in Guadalajara, Monica Chavarria’s thoughts would inevitably turn to the husband and son she left behind in Georgia. 1/2: Undoc. Student Will Walk to DC to Seek Immigration Reform By Jason Kane writes for TC Palm: The 26-year-old from Indiantown has been forced to withdraw from Kaplan University and was denied scholarships at a seminary. And if pending court proceedings don’t go his way — he’ll also be heading back to Mexico. 12/10: AP: New migrants boosting cities By HOPE YEN (AP) WASHINGTON — A steady flow of new immigrants is providing a late-decade population boost to major metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Miami, New York and Los Angeles, whose states are seeking to stem declines before the 2010 census. 12/11: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: Report blasts Obama's record on immigration By Stephen Wall, Staff Writer The Obama Administration has failed in its efforts to secure the border and enforce immigration laws, an anti-illegal immigration group said in a report released Wednesday. 12/14: Guilty plea by ex-ICE agent shocks many: guilty of drug trafficking By Robert Anglen Richard Cramer was first a foot soldier and then a leader in the war on drugs. He once ran the Nogales office of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement and was twice assigned as an attache to Mexico. 12/17: Pennsylvania Burning: Feds Levy Charges In Immigrant Killing and Police Cover-Up By Brian Levin, J.D. The United States Department of Justice announced a sweeping set of indictments levied by a federal grand jury connected to a racially motivated killing and alleged police corruption in Shenandoah, PA. The indictments handed down December 10 were released today. Among those charged are two former high school football players and various police officers, including Shenandoah's police chief. Shenandoah is a small town approximately 60 road miles from Allentown in the eastern coal-mining region of the state. The area, previously nearly all white, has seen an increase in Latino immigration over the last decade. The case was featured in a CNN documentary , Latino in America, which aired earlier this year. 12/19: Fernando Suarez del Solar - Nobel Prize for Peace???? By Fernando Suarez del Solar, Founder & Director Dear Mr. President: I know you may never read these words and even if you did they would not change your decision to send more young Americans to the war in Afghanistan. But, as the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Jesús Alberto Suárez del Solar who died on Marcy 27, 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, I consider it my moral duty to share my thoughts with you today. 12/11: Feds Tighten Guest Worker Departures By SiuHin In a pilot project, the Department of Homeland Security’s US Customs and 12/15: Bad PR Pitch: Stereotyping Black & Latino Shopping By Luke Visconti I received a public relations pitch from a well-known "multicultural" agency. I've sanitized the pitch to avoid embarrassing the guilty, but there's a good underlying lesson for all companies to be sensitive to. Here's my response to the PR agency pitch person: 12/16: The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's "Softer" Immigration Enforcement By David Bacon, The Progressive Ana Contreras would have been a competitor for the national tai kwon do championship team this year. She's 14. For six years she's gone to practice instead of birthday parties, giving up the friendships most teenagers live for. Then two months ago disaster struck. Her mother Dolores lost her job. The money for classes was gone, and not just that. 12/1-2: National Call-in for National Housing Trust Fund Money By SiuHin Please call your Representative and both of your Senators on December 1 or 2. Please ask your networks to do the same. Tell them you want at least $1 billion for the National Housing Trust Fund before Congress adjourns later in December. Urge them to support any bill moving through the House or Senate that contains money for the NHTF. By Leslie Berestein Thousands of crosses have been installed on the Mexican side of the border fence to protest the U.S. government's Operation Gatekeeper enforcement program. (John Gibbins/Union-Tribune) 12/2: Obama aunt hurt by self-imposed exile from 1st family due to immigration status By RODRIQUE NGOWI BOSTON - President Barack Obama's aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish that she no longer has contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing. By A New Class of Workers on a Global Scale Protestors, approximately six million strong, took to the streets this spring in a movement so large it surprised the politicians, the capitalists, and even the protestors themselves. It was something completely and obviously new – qualitatively new. 12/4: Obama Administration's Immigration Policy By John Steinbach Barack Obama won the presidency in no small part because he captured a large majority of the immigrant vote, especially that of Latinos. Obama's promise of "comprehensive immigration reform" played an important role in that victory. Yet, instead of prioritizing immigration reform, President Obama has escalated several controversial enforcement initiatives. As this tighter enforcement takes hold, many in the immigrant and human rights movement still remain hopeful about prospects for reform including a path to citizenship for out-of-status immigrants and passage of the Dream Act. 12/4: Stolen Birthright: The U. S. Conquest and Exploitation of the Mexican People By Richard D. Vogel A ghost from the past is haunting America. But this ghost is no phantasm—it is the emergence of millions of Mexicans and Mexican Americans, descendants of the people who were dispossessed of their land and denied their birthright in the southwestern United States, who are growing in power and hungering for justice. 12/4: Labor Pains: Rancho Cucamonga day laborers beautify a historic site—and dig up the past By Diego DuBois Frequently, there are not many prospects for work. More often than not, toilers with calloused hands and empty lunch coolers shuffle home empty-handed. On those days when an employer is looking for an extra hand, there are other risks. There is no guarantee of workplace safety or of medical care in case of an injury. There's not even any guarantee of payment. 11/30: Seattle immigrant settles brutality case for $48k against border patrol By Mike Carter MOUNT VERNON — The federal government has paid an illegal immigrant $48,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging he was assaulted and illegally arrested by two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents while waiting for his 6-year-old son at a bus stop. 11/28: At This Holiday Season, Please Support Public Petition to Pardon Qing Wu By SiuHin We, the undersigned residents of the State of New York, hereby petition Your Honorable the Governor of New York David A. Paterson to grant Qing Wu a pardon of wrong doings committed over 14 years ago, so as to stop an unjust deportation proceeding by the United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement (“ICE”). 11/21: DUI CHECKPOINTS: Carson & Manhattan Beach By Daily Breeze staff reports Where they'll be 11/25: Pro-immigration group America's Voice calls on Lou Dobbs to run for president By KELLY FINCHAM America's Voice has urged Lou Dobbs to run for President. 11/27: Immigration reform activists diversifying ranks By Concerned Migrants WASHINGTON (AP) -- Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement. 11/27: Hostility And Racism Runs Rampant In Morocco Against Migrant Blacks. By Concerned Migrants The Morocco immigration laws and policies that exempted the Asians would-be migrants, these includes: Pakistan, Indian, Bangladesh, Afganistan and Palestinian, into europe in an irregular manners from being arrested should also exempt the sub-saharan Africans too because, the mission of both sides is getting into europe illegally. This is partiality and injustice. 11/24: Obama's Failure to Close Guantanamo by January Deadline Is Disastrous By Andy Worthington President Obama's admission in China that he will miss 12/6: Los Angeles, CA: Chinese-American Historical Day Now CA Law+Reception By sallyzhu Please join California State Assemblymember Mike Eng, Yee Fow Museum, and other state and national organizations in commemorating the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the recent passage of ACR 76 into Californian law. ACR 76 acknowledges December 17 as a “Day of Inclusion” in recognition and appreciation of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. This landmark repeal of anti-Chinese immigration has led to the priceless contributions of all immigrants to the greatness of the United States and especially to our great state of California. 11/25: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: A Bell Tolls for Justice By Ciudad Juarez News A bell now rings out for justice from the besieged heart of what is 11/18: Great News: Settlement in USCIS lawsuit could accelerate citizenship applications By Andrew Edwards and Stephen Wall, Staff Writers Carmen Reyes is anxious to become a U.S. citizen. 11/18: More on the CIS-FBI "clogged system" settlement By Juan C. Garcia Immigrants who waited for years for their citizenship applications to be processed due to extraordinary backlogs will finally have the chance to become Americans and enjoy the privileges of citizenship, under the terms of a settlement announced today between the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the National Immigration Law Center, the ACLU of Southern California, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson. 11/17: Lee Siu Hin: Journey to My Home 2009-Obama Goes to Beijing (Part Six) By SiuHin Greeting from Zhuhai, China..middle of my China-U.S. bi-national solidarity working trip. 11/14: Anti-Immigrant 'Tea Party' Confronted in St. Paul By Staff St. Paul, MN - On November 14, immigrant rights activists in the Twin Cities confronted a "tea party" rally of about 40 right wing anti-immigrant extremists at the Minnesota State Capitol. The anti-immigrant "tea party against amnesty" was in opposition to immigration reform legislation that may be introduced soon in the U.S. Congress, which might provide legalization for some undocumented immigrants. The tea party organizers oppose any legalization and instead support repressive mass deportations of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country. The anti-immigrant extremists gathered to hear speakers and held signs with messages such as "If You Are Illegal Go Home" and "Pack Their Sack and Send Them Back". 11/16: US unveils 'Guantanamo's evil twin' extended Bagram prison By from Citizens For Legitimate Government US unveils 'Guantanamo's evil twin' extended Bagram prison --'The Bagram prison resembled a concentration camp.' 16 Nov 2009 Journalists have been allowed to inspect refurbished facilities at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, the largest US military hub in the region and home to a controversial prison. Al Jazeera's correspondent James Bays, who was among those who inspected the facilities on Sunday, said Bagram, unlike its Guantanamo counterpart, was clearly not going to be shut down soon. "The new prison wing cost some $60 million [for KBR] to build ..." Bays said. "But we were not shown the detainees. Human-rights lawyers say that, while the environment for the prisoners may be changing, their legal situation is not ... not having been charged. Nor has any civilian lawyer ever been allowed inside." Omar Dighayes, a former detainee at Bagram and Guantanamo Bay, said the Bagram prison resembled a concentration camp. "People were beaten, dragged, tortured in it," he told Al Jazeera. 11/16: Ordeal of Australia's child migrants By Nick Bryant The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect. 11/16: Ordeal of Australia's child migrants By Nick Bryant The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect. 11/14: Chief Bratton: LAPD Fights Crime, not Immigration By Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Police Department Fights Crime, not Immigration 11/7: Patchogue, NY: After Immigrant Killed in NY, Others Tell of Abuse By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) -- The high school buddies who trolled the streets looking for Hispanics to attack called it ''beaner hopping.'' 11/7 US-Mexico Border: Migrant Shelter Besieged By SiuHin Lee A Catholic Church-run migrant shelter in the northern Mexican state of 11/9: Honduras deal collapses, and Zelaya's backers blame U.S. By Tyler Bridges CARACAS, Venezuela — A U.S.-brokered accord that was supposed to return ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to power has collapsed and his supporters pinned much of the blame Monday on the Obama administration. 11/5: Legislative Update (NIF) By National Immigration Forum We have just passed the anniversary of the 2008 election-one that was marked by high expectations for change. What we have learned in the interim, on the legislative front, is that there are still too many Members of Congress who are invested in the status quo on a range of issues. Tackling the big challenges that face the country has for too long been a job for the next Congress, and it is unclear whether there are enough solutions-oriented members in this Congress to break out of the old pattern. 11/10: America`s Shame: Hatred of Illegal Immigrants By BlackSun “You lie!” shouted Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) at President Obama, in what Bill Maher compared to an episode of Tourette syndrome. Wilson’s unprecedented breach of legislative decorum concerned the President’s statement to a joint session of Congress that illegal aliens would not receive free health care under reform legislation. Why should the mere suspicion of a compassionate stance toward aliens stir such a display of outrage? 11/11: Immigration: Reps protest killing of Nigerians in Italy, may order probe By From Terhemba Daka, Abuja WORRIED by the unending killing of Nigerians in foreign countries, the House of Representatives may tomorrow (Tuesday) debate a motion seeking to compel the Italian government to investigate the alleged murder of a Nigerian, Emmanuel Ngozichukwu Ajoku Benedict, by the Italian police. 11/8: Alan Bersin is at home on a daunting frontier By Sebastian Rotella The nominee to lead Customs and Border Protection sees an opportunity for 'huge change' even though Mexico's drug war has dramatically heightened tensions along the border. 11/8: Protestor Ana Rodriguez disrupts oath taking for new Lake Worth commissioner By WILLIE HOWARD LAKE WORTH — As newly elected City Commissioner Scott Maxwell took the oath of office this afternoon, Ana Rodriguez jumped up and confronted him about his stance on immigration while the crowd at city hall booed. 11/2: Immigration Reform Confrontation To Begin in Earnest: The Tea Parties Are Coming By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor A tea party on Wall Street in Manhattan on April 15 this year. (Photo: ajagendorf25/Flickr) By Jan Snider She looked so tiny holding the calloused hand of her young uncle, just 5 years old and excited about starting kindergarten. But as she shuffled down the polished floors of the church hallway toward our immigration legal clinic, there was worry in her big brown eyes. 11/4: Reid Gets No GOP Support For Resolution Honoring Hispanic Media By Dorinda Moreno Reid Gets No GOP Support For Resolution Honoring Hispanic Media 10/31: IMMIGRATION : Spain deports 53 Nigerians By Wole Shadare LESS than one week after 58 Nigerians were deported from Dublin, Ireland, 53 others were yesterday deported to the country through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. 10/31: IMMIGRANTION : France migrant policy criticised By Emma Jane Kirby France's system of detaining and deporting unaccompanied migrant children flown into Paris has been criticised in a damning new report. 10/28: IMMIGRATION :Australia refuses Tamil refugees By Campaign For Migrants Rights Australian authorities have said 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers in Indonesia will not be taken to Australia, their intended destination. 10/29: IMMIGRATION : Suicide-bid asylum girl released By Campaign For Migrants Rights A 10-year-old failed asylum seeker who tried to commit suicide while in detention has been released by the UK Border Agency. 10/29: Lee Siu Hin: Journey to My Home 2009--My Report from China (Part Five) By SiuHin Greeting from souther Chinese costal city of Zhuhai (where my IT office locate)! and here's my updates from China...middle of my China-U.S. bi-national solidarity trip.... 10/28: As US population increases, Congress must adjust - Yahoo! News By Jane S. DeLung and Judith A. Himes Jane S. Delung And Judith A. Himes Princeton, N.J. – How would you feel if you knew that there was just one 911 operator in charge of answering and directing all the calls in your county? And that it had been this way for multiple decades, despite the fact that the population there has been steadily increasing over the years? 10/28: Police leaders from across the country call For immigration reform By Juan C. Garcia Law Enforcement Officials Describe Impact of Broken System on Public Safety and Community Trust 10/28: Tell Congress to Take Action to help treat Immigrant's Cases Fairly By SiuHin Sign the Petition : 110 Letters and Emails Sent So Far 10/26: IMMIOGRATION :- Immigrants Returning to 'the Jungle' By Campaign For Migrants Rights After the French authorities closed the migrant camp known as 'the jungle' Andrew Hosken returns to find out what has happened to the migrants, and why Calais is the town most people are happy to pass through on their way to somewhere else. 10/26: IMMIGRATION :- Easter Island to curb immigrants By Gideon Long The inhabitants of Easter Island in the South Pacific have voted to restrict immigration amid overpopulation fears. 10/26: Exposing the colour of prejudice By Kevin Connolly How much does the colour of our skin make us who we are, and shape the way the world sees us? 10/26: Deportation: 10-Year-old Nigerian girl attempts suicide in Britain By From Tunde Oyedoyin, London A 10-year-old Nigerian girl, Adeoti Ogunsola, described as "charming," by her head teacher, attempted taking her life last on Sunday, as Immigration officials were making plans to deport her and her mother from Britain for the second time this year. 10/26: Deportation: 10-Year-old Nigerian girl attempts suicide in Britain By Concerned Migrants A 10-year-old Nigerian girl, Adeoti Ogunsola, described as "charming," by her head teacher, attempted taking her life last on Sunday, as Immigration officials were making plans to deport her and her mother from Britain for the second time this year. 10/23: A Kafkaesque Deportation to Peru, Conviction at Center of Philadelpha Political Controversy By LINN WASHINGTON, Jr. Julio Maldonado faces flying into an uncertain future if federal authorities succeed in deporting this former construction worker to Peru, the South American country he left 39-years-ago as a three-year-old child. 10/23: Expert says growing Hispanic population making its mark By Carmen Cusido PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- Hispanics are the fastest-growing demographic group in the state and the country and their impact is being felt in classrooms now and in the job market in the future, an education expert said. 10/21: Migrants Going North Now Risk Kidnappings By Marc Lacey TECATE, Mexico — For 37 days, the Salvadoran immigrant was held captive in a crowded room near the border with scores of people, all of them Central Americans who had been kidnapped while heading north, hoping to cross into the United States. He finally got out in August, he said, after the Mexican Army raided the house in the middle of the night to free them. 10/22: Nigeria okays new site for 9,000 African refugees By From Charles Akpeji, Jalingo ALL is now set for the resettlement of over 9,000 refugees from some war-torn African countries in Taraba State. 10/17: Target/Amazon must withdraw "illegal alien" costume from sales By Sergio Reyes Mr. Jeffrey P. Bezos 10/17: Immigrant and U.S. Born Workers Face Common Enemy By Michael Brand Unity is Only Path Forward as Immigrant and U.S. Born Workers Face Common Enemy 10/18: Prayer Vigil To Urge City Council to Reject New Funding for Checkpoints By Juan C. Garcia Prayer Vigil To Urge the Pomona City Council to Reject New Funding for Discriminatory Traffic Checkpoints 10/19: Australia PM unmoved by refugees By Nick Bryant The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said he will not be moved by any actions from a group of more than 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers. By Linda Chavez If there's one thing President Barack Obama learned back in his community organizing days, it was that numbers count. The more people you can claim to represent, the bigger your political base. So it should come as no surprise that the Obama administration sees the business of counting people as crucial to its political power. And that's why next year's decennial census is rife with opportunities for a major power grab by the president's party. 10/16: Call for Solidarity! Another Migrant Activist Arrested in South Korea!!!! On October 8 the South Korea Immigration Authorities arrested Minod Moktan, a well-known cultural activists who has fought tirelessly for the human rights of migrants in South Korea. His arrest is the latest incident in series of targeted crackdowns against migrant activists, a pattern of repression that has drawn international condemnation. We urge you to show your solidarity by faxing a message of protest to the South Korean Ministry of Justice making the following demands: 10/7: Justice Dept. Probe Examines Treatment of Latinos by Suffolk Police By Rob Waters The U.S. Justice Department has begun an investigation into allegations of “discriminatory policing” by the Suffolk County (N.Y.) Police Department over how officers responded to reports of crimes against Latinos. 10/7: Two NC lawmakers: Community colleges shouldn't admit illegal immigrants By Corey Friedman GASTONIA — The community college entrance exam should consist of a single question, two state lawmakers say: Are you a legal American resident? 10/7: NNIRR Releases New Report, 'Guilty by Immigration Status' By Arnoldo Garcia & Laura Rivas 'Guilty by Immigration Status' assails troubling rise in racial profiling, immigrant detentions that undermine promise of reform 10/6: Lee Siu Hin: Journey to My Home 2009--My Report from China By Lee Siu Hin Many of you might know I had been begin traveling to China since June, for a very important China-U.S. bi-national solidarity working trip. I had been traveling to different parts of China for important political meetings and organizing--Hong Kong, Zhuhai, Beijing, Dalian and Tianjin, and I am planning to stay in China until mid-November for few more projects. 10/5: NYT: CIS Preparing for Mass Legalization By Juan C. Garcia WASHINGTON (By Julia Preston, NYT) October 2, 2009 — Although President Obama has put off an immigration overhaul until next year, the federal agency in charge of approving visas is planning ahead for the possibility of giving legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants, the agency’s director said Thursday. 9/29: Youth Consultation on Migration and Development By Youth Alive Addressing international migration concerns has undoubtedly become a pressing issue in recent times, not only for governments but also for a broad range of society actors in the north and south countries/states. Over the past few decades, political, economic, social and demographic changes in many parts of the world have uprooted many people and stimulated migration to cities within and across countries. The growing volume of trade, faster and cheaper transport, and easier communication have allowed and encouraged more people to migrate within and across national borders. 9/29: What's the Border Fence Good for? By Yasha Levine Last week, the Government Accountability Office released a depressing audit 9/25: 2009 Fall Fund Raising Appeal 4 Immig Solidarity Netw'k, ActionLA, Peace NO War! By Lee Siu Hin We want to thank activists who had been generously donated to our work last year, however, we to raise our taget $50,000 to fund 10 areas of works we're planning for the year 2009 (as well as the continue development of ActivistVideo.org and e-Activism.org systems) 9/24: IMMIGRANTS BACKGROUND : German 'race hate' letters probed By Campaign For Migrants Rights German police are investigating whether a string of letters from the far-right NPD party to politicians from immigrant backgrounds have incited racial hatred. 9/24: Public interest career driven by high ideals, imagination: another Chicano hero wins award By Diane Curtis After five years as a trial tax attorney, Robert Gnaizda set his legal sights on helping those for whom justice and equality are too often a distant dream, and he has never looked back. In 1966, the then-30-year-old Yale Law grad co-founded California Rural Legal Assistance, which fights for economic justice and human rights on behalf of California’s rural poor. In 1971, he co-founded Public Advocates of San Francis-co, a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization for the poor, minorities and the underserved. And in 1993, he co-founded the Greenlining Institute, which aims to empower minorities and the disadvantaged through economic and leadership development, civil rights and anti-redlining activities. All three organizations are still active, major forces in the legal services community. 9/25: NIS: Why we can’t stop illegal migration By Concerned Migrants Nigerian Immigration Service yesterday gave fresh insights into why it was finding it difficult to contain the wave of illegal migrations around the nation’s borders 9/22: UK 'won't take Calais migrants' By Campaign For Migrants Rights Home Secretary Alan Johnson has denied that Britain will be forced to take migrants from the "Calais Jungle" camp which has been shut by French police. 8/16: Race and Diversity in the Age of Obama By ORLANDO PATTERSON Barack Obama’s historic victory was made possible by two great converging forces that began near the middle of the last century: the civil rights revolution and the changes engendered by the Immigration Act of 1965. The civil rights movement led to the rapid dismantling of Jim Crow and the inclusion of black Americans in politics, the military, the middle class and popular culture. The 1965 immigration act set in motion vast demographic and social changes that have altered the nation’s ethno-racial landscape. 9/20: IMMIGRATION : Bahamas outlook clouds for Haitians By Nick Davis Waooooo......its unbelieveable that this banana crossing that killed many soul whom are searching for better life still happening too in south america as it also happening in north africa (Kingdom of Morocco) where i reside to cross to Spain and from Libya to Italy. Infact, where are the world leader"s today and UN? I could remember very very well from one solo human rights fighter, activist, late lengend Fela Anikulapo Kuti the king of afro beat music from nigeria in west africa that sing 'BONN' says " who and who united inside unite nations?" please readers iw ill love you all to listen to fela music. 9/18: WH Backs Controversial Domestic Surveillance, Bill Could Block Gitmo Close By Citizens For Legitimate Government Bill could block Guantanamo closure 17 Sep 2009 A bill that could go to the Senate floor as early as next week would make it impossible for President Barack Obama to move any Guantanamo prisoners to the U.S. for any reason, effectively blocking his plan to close the facility by January. The bar on all such transfers was written into the Senate version of the Defense appropriations bill passed by the Appropriations Committee last week and is stricter than current law, which allows prisoners to be brought to the United States for trial as long as Congress is notified 45 days in advance of any potential risks. 9/17: IMMIGRATION :France to close migrant 'jungle' By Emma-Jane Kirby France has said it intends to close the camp in Calais known as "the jungle", where migrants gather to try to reach the UK. 9/17: Undocumented may drive insurance costs down By Peter Wallsten Trying to quell a conservative uproar over his healthcare agenda, President Obama has proposed barring illegal immigrants from a possible government-arranged health insurance marketplace -- even if the immigrants pay with their own money. | ||
