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UK Deportation of Yezza "Orwellian" From a Tuesday, May 27, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Tue, May 27, 2008 7:03am PDT
Aftermath of US slaughterhouse raid: fear and repression grip Iowa town Monday, May 26, 2008 :Two weeks have passed since an army of US immigration agents, backed by local and state police and members of other agencies carried out the largest single workplace raid in US history....
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 9:03am PDT
Texas towns sue Homeland Security over border wall plans Friday, May 23, 2008 :The Texas Border Coalition (TBC), a coalition of southern Texas mayors and communities within the Rio Grande Valley, has brought a lawsuit against the federal Department of Homeland Security in an attempt to halt construction of its massive border wall. The suit (Texas Border Coalition v. Michael Chertoff et al.), filed May 16 in the Washington, D.C....
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 9:06pm PDT
ICE Immigration Raids Are Reckless and Unconstitutional Tuesday, May 20, 2008 : WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union commends Chairwoman Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and the Workforce Protection Subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee for holding today’s hearing on immigration raids and their impact on families and communities....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 7:33am PDT
Violent attacks on immigrants in South Africa Wednesday, May 21, 2008 :At least 32 people have been killed in violent attacks on immigrants in South Africa. It is reported that upwards of 6,000 people have sought shelter in police stations and churches....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 7:31am PDT
STOP ICE RAIDS: Speak Out and Emergency Forum at UCSD 
Last Thursday (05/15/2008), I.C.E. raided a bakery in Pacific Beach, and detained at least 18 workers. Two human rights observers documenting the activities of I.C.E. during this raid were threatened with arrest, aggressively questioned, and one particularly hostile I.C.E. agent took their video camera away from them. These two human rights workers are UCSD affiliates; one is a current student and the other a recent graduate from UCSD.
A bakery employee who was not detained, although questio...
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 9:03pm PDT
DECONSTRUCTING IMMIGRATION Chapter 3: The Border (larger image size) (video/mp4 59.1MB) In this third part of a six-part series, journalist and documentary photographer David Bacon, author of the forthcoming book "Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants," explains how the U.S. Mexico border helps create cheap labor for U.S. corporations. (9:31)...
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2008 6:55pm PDT
DECONSTRUCTING IMMIGRATION Chapter 3: The Border (video/mp4 51.9MB) In this third part of a six-part series, journalist and documentary photographer David Bacon, author of the forthcoming book Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, explains how the U.S. Mexico border helps create cheap labor for U.S. corporations. 9:31...
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2008 3:07pm PDT
Italy: Berlusconi's new government promotes xenophobia Thursday, May 15, 2008 :Nicolo Tommasoli was buried in the city of Verona last Saturday. The 29-year-old had been beaten to death on May 1 by neo-Nazis. A silent crowd of over 300 mourners escorted his coffin to the grave. In accordance with the wishes of his parents and fiancée, politicians and the press were excluded from Tommasolis funeral service....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 10:29pm PDT
INB 5/14/08: May Day Roundup; Raids Continue Many of this year's protests were focused on stopping the immigration raids, especially workplace raids, which have increased steadily since 2006. Yet the raids continued, both before and after May Day, with at least 170 workers arrested in workplace raids in Texas, Arkansas, California, Hawai'i and Virginia between Apr. 25 and May 5....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 7:28pm PDT
CDIR Update No. 52 
The Coalition to Defend Immigrant Rights (CDIR)-USA and the Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC) based in Los Angeles today, vehemently condemns the ICE raid that arrested almost 400 immigrants at the Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville, Iowa, the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the world
In Los Angeles, the KFPK radio announced that the ICE raid occurred in south central LA with ICE agents loaded on 2 trucks. At least 61 immigrants from Nicaragua,Mexico and Guatemala were arrested by ICE a...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 10:05am PDT
US: Nearly 400 immigrant workers arrested in slaughterhouse raid Wednesday, May 14, 2008 :In one of the largest ever government dragnets against immigrant workers, federal agents swooped down upon a meatpacking plant in northeastern Iowa Monday, rounding up nearly 400 workers....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 7:38am PDT
Paramilitary in Hillcrest 
Privatized police/ border patrol in Hillcrest...
Posted: Mon, May 12, 2008 3:18pm PDT
May Day 2008 International Workers Day and Immigrant Mobilization Report!! 40-pages report: May Day 2008 International Workers Day and Mobilization to Support Immigrant Rights! Reports from Around the World...
Posted: Sat, May 10, 2008 6:06pm PDT
SDPD and Border Patrol collaborate on arrest in City Heights 
At approximately 10 am on Thursday, May 8, a woman was stopped by SDPD officers at the corner of University and Euclid in City Heights. Soon after being detained by the SDPD, several Border Patrol and SDPD vehicles arrived on the scene. She was then arrested, transferred to Border Patrol custody and taken away. Neighborhood residents said that for the past four or five days, the Border Patrol has been seen driving along University Avenue and even setting up checkpoints at the intersection of ...
Posted: Thu, May 8, 2008 12:57pm PDT
IMMIGRANTS/ WORKERS UNITED MARCH-RALLY ON MAY 1st IN LA 
For the third year in a row. more or less 30,000 marchers from three major immigrant /workers groups- the MIWON, March 25 Coalition and the April 7th Coalition for Full Immigrants Rights in Los Angeles and demand full rights and legalization for immigrants, a stop on ICE raids and deportations and to commemorate International Workers Day.
The media called it “a combination of a holiday parade and party celebrations” Different media outlets and the LAPD have different estimates like ...
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2008 6:52pm PDT
On the 66th Year of the Fall of Corregidor, May 6, 1942 
On May 6, 1942, after enduring one month of siege, air and artillery bombardment by the Japanese, the island fortress of Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese Imperial Army..
With the surrender of Corregidor, General Jonathan Wainright, USAFEE Chief was forced to formally surrendered the whole Philippines. With the fall of the Philippines, organized armed resistance by the USAFFE forces in the Philippines ceased to exist. The formal occupation of the Philippines by the Japanese Imperial f...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2008 9:51am PDT
New York Times exposé on immigrant deaths in custody Tuesday, May 6, 2008 :A front-page article in Mondays New York Times provides some insight into the barbaric treatment of immigrants held in US custody. After obtaining a government list through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Times investigated the circumstances surrounding a number of immigrant deaths that occurred in detention centers between 2004 and 2007....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2008 8:09am PDT
MAY 1st IMMIGRANT/WORKERS RIGHTS US -WIDE MASS ACTIONS , A RESOUNDING SUCCESS 
Massive mass actions for May 1 that were held in major U.S. cities was a resounding success.
In scores of major cities like Los Angeles (30,000), Seattle, WA
(6,000)San Francisco,( 10,000) New York, (10,000) . and Chicago (50,000), Filipino Americans immigrants and advocates joined up with their Latino immigrant allies to demand full rights and legalization for immigrants, a stop to ICE raids and deportations and workers rights during May 1 International Workers Day.
Arturo P. Garcia, ...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2008 9:06am PDT
Brown Berets de Aztlan are recruiting and forming new chapters New Mobilization...
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2008 5:54pm PDT
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