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5/26: NIF Analysis on Senate Passing Immigration Reform Bill
On May 25, by a vote of 62 to 36, the Senate passed S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. 38 Democrats were joined by 23 Republicans (and one Independent) in voting for the bill....
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 11:31pm PDT
Solidarity statement from prisoners in the U.S. to the migant rights movement
Solidarity with the French Student and Worker Movement and Migrant
Worker's Movements in the United States!...
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 11:18pm PDT
Oakland Police Help Bust Illegal Immigrants
Oakland and Immigration Customs Enforcement Target Illegals in Oakland...
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 11:06pm PDT
5/27: Mitín contra la Militarización/Rally Against the Militarization
PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCE INTO TIJUANA (Camiones Way, SAN YSIDRO, CA 92173)
SATURDAY MAY 27, 2006
12:00 NOON...
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 10:09pm PDT
La verdadera historia de los “hijos” de la Dra. Retondo de Spaini
El matrimonio conformado por Lola Retondo de Spaini y Alberto Spaini tiene más de un secreto que guardar. Pero tarde o temprano la verdad comienza a saberse.
El primero de los secretos (quizás el más grave) es que el mayor de los hijos del matrimonio Spaini-Retondo fue ilegalmente apropiado de una pareja de desaparecidos gracias a sus contactos con la cúpula militar local de ese entonces....
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 5:34pm PDT
Counter-protest against anti-immigrant Minute Men group in Fremont
Counter-protest against anti-immigrant Minute Men group in Fremont
Friday, June 2, from 5-7 at the corner of Mowry and Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA...
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 3:20pm PDT
IMMIGRATION MATTERS: Getting No Bill at All Is Better Than Senate Bill
Many grassroots immigrant rights groups outside Washington, D.C., say that failure to pass any immigration reform is better than any possible combination of the current House and Senate immigration bills. David Bacon is an associate editor at New America Media and author of "The Children of NAFTA" (University of California Press, 2004). He sits on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Committee of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition....
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 6:12am PDT
Polleros más caros
"Polleros" están a la expectativa
Pronostican alza en precios para cruzar a indocumentados
Jorge Morales Almada
26 de mayo de 2006...
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 3:09am PDT
5/26 in SF: Press Conf Respond to Senate Immigration Bill!
When: Friday, May 26, 2006 at 10:00AM
Where: In front of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office – 1 Post Street, San
Francisco...
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 12:01am PDT
Immigrant Rights Actions/Zapatista Protest Against Vicente Fox Today in Sacramento
Today is another big day for demonstrations in Sacramento. CAUIL is sponsoring three immigrant rights actions today, while the Zapatista Solidarity Commiteee is sponsoring a demonstration to protest the appearance of Mexican President Vicente Fox. Here's all of the details!...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 10:21am PDT
While Some See Compromise, Senate Immigration Bill Punishes Undocumented Immigrants
The Senate version of the immigration bill is expected to be voted on as early as today. While the bill is being hailed as a compromise solution to immigration, many immigrant advocates point to a number of adverse provisions in the bill that they say will actually bar millions from legalization and threaten their civil liberties....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 8:58am PDT
vicente fox, president of mexico, visiting sacto
come to protest the bs that fox will be feeding legislators....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 4:28am PDT
US Senate limits debate on immigration reform
The motion to cut off what has been protracted debate was made by Republican Senate majority leader Bill Frist and approved on a 73-25 vote....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 11:39pm PDT
Down with Senate Bill 2611!
Attacks on immigrants are attacks on the working class! Full rights for all immigrants now!...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 9:30pm PDT
Senate Advances Sweeping Immigration Bill
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to limit
debate on election-year immigration legislation, clearing the way for final
passage later this week of a bill that calls for tougher border security as well
as an eventual chance at citizenship for millions of men and women in the
country illegally....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 2:15pm PDT
LATINOPHOBIA on the Senate
What the immigration debate is really about
by Ruben Navarrette Jr., San Diego Union-Tribune...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 10:23am PDT
Madres se oponen a la deportacion de sus hijos
Olina Calderón y Ana Corea celebraron el día de las madres luchando por sus hijos, quienes podrían ser deportados por el Servicio de Inmigración de los Estados Unidos. A Olina el gobierno pretende arrancar de su lado a Gerson, 20, y Oscar, 17, un par de jóvenes espigados quienes se han adaptado sin complicaciones en Oakland, donde vislumbran un mejor futuro que en su natal y pobre Honduras. Ámbos muchachos fueron detenidos por la patrulla fronteriza, en el desierto de Arizona, junto con otros...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 6:30am PDT
Mothers confront sons' deportation
Olina Calderón and Ana Corea celebrated Mother’s Day fighting for their children, who face deportation by the Immigration Service. Calderón says the U.S. government intends to deport her two sons, Gerson, 20 and Oscar, 17, to Central America. The two have grown-up, trouble free in Oakland, where they have carved out a better future than they could have in their native and impoverished country of Honduras, says Calderón....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 6:28am PDT
Philippine solon files resolution vs. repressive US immigration bills
Philippine activist lawmaker Rep. Crispin Beltran recently filed House Resolution 1263 urging the Philippine government to support the call of millions of Filipinos and migrants of other nationalities in the US and actively oppose the passage of the racist and repressive Sensenbrenner-King bill and other similar proposals....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 6:11am PDT
U.S. Troops Heading to Southern Border Not About Immigration
The push to deploy National Guards troops to our southern border with Mexico has nothing to do with current immigration issues, but plenty to do with the Bush administration’s failure to effectively maintain U.S. influence in Latin America....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 8:53pm PDT