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In response to this raid, many individuals and
organizations including immigrant-rights groups, unions, lawyers,
student organizations and university professors have come together to
support the detained individuals, their families, and to
denounce the raids....
Posted: Mon, Jun 2, 2008 12:02pm PDT
Originally From New America Media
The Obama campaign has almost completely ignored Latino media, and the McCain campaign is even worse, writes La Opinin columnist Pilar Marrero. La Opinin endorsed Obama and McCain in their respective primaries....
Posted: Mon, Jun 2, 2008 7:47am PDT
Monday, June 2, 2008 :The planned June 1 deportation of University of Nottingham staff member Hicham Yezza was cancelled on May 30. The change was necessitated by an application to the High Court that same day, seeking a judicial review of the Home Offices decision....
Posted: Mon, Jun 2, 2008 7:41am PDT
Migrawatch denounces the gestapo-like tactics of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE). More than 900 people were taken in California and over 700 in Iowa during recent ICE raids. In the Monterey Bay Area, 25 people were taken, including in Watsonville, Salinas, Capitola and Seaside.
One individual was stopped by ICE on Rodriguez Street in Watsonville in plain daylight. He was pushed to the ground, his hands were tied around his back, and his feet were bounded while being f...
Posted: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 11:23pm PDT
The Kansas Senate adopted an amendment by Senator Karin Brownlee (R-Olathe) to the immigration reform bill that would put responsibility for controlling illegal immigration on unions and other employee organizations....
Posted: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 6:52pm PDT
A newspaper article and a movement press statement on the recent pogroms in South Africa....
Posted: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 4:07am PDT
May Day 2008! ICE Massive Immigrant Raids!
Immigrant Counter-Recruitment Campaign, NO to Killing!...
Posted: Fri, May 30, 2008 2:34pm PDT
Friday, May 30, 2008 :The International Students for Social Equality condemns and opposes the arrest and detention of a student and a member of the faculty at the University of Nottingham in England. Student Rizawaan Sabir and staff member Dr. Hicham Yezza were both arrested on May 14 under the Terrorism Act 2000. Subsequent to this action, the Home Office has issued an order to deport Hicham Yezza to Algeriascheduled to take place on June 1....
Posted: Fri, May 30, 2008 7:31am PDT
Two recent videos highlighting the deplorable conditions of imprisonment that refugees and immigrants are subjected to under the auspices of Homeland Security....
Posted: Thu, May 29, 2008 4:41pm PDT
The senseless arrest of an undocumented Hermana AND HER CHILDREN for ...
A Vicious Crime....
Selling strawberries at the corner of 21 and Valencia last Wednesday ... is an abomination, and our community has the Power to Redress and obtain Justice for this family, as well as for all unjustly criminalized undocumented Immigrants in our City....
Posted: Tue, May 27, 2008 10:10pm PDT
Over the last week, we took out six surveillance cameras from the exteriors of four different buildings on the University of California in Santa Cruz campus. This was an act of rebellion to the social control in our daily lives. These cameras are the eyes of the police....
Posted: Tue, May 27, 2008 2:32pm PDT
From a Tuesday, May 27, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Tue, May 27, 2008 7:03am PDT
Learn how a group of undocumented youth have come together to stop the ICE raids by creating a national campaign known as One Dream 2009. Included are the videos captured of ICE officials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR5AVtlZ7GM
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q16uB0hFi3Q)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nIWV8-cJ1c0...
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 4:31pm PDT
BRIGADES AGAINST THE RAIDS, a Project of BARRIO UNIDO is calling for a picket on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 5 PM in front of Mission Police Station. The picket is to protest the arrest and probable deportation of a woman who sold strawberries on the corner of 22nd and Valencia Streets on March 21, 2008. The woman's two children were arrested at the same time for attacking the arresting officer....
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 3:31pm PDT
Federal immigration officers arrested more than 900 people in
California
on immigration violations this month, almost half of them in Northern
California, officials said Friday....
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 12:39pm PDT
Immigrant rights under threat by poor detention and deportation procedures
Video length - 4:49...
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 10:53am PDT
Originally From New America Media
Sunday, May 25, 2008 :Threats of death and lynching that used to be directed at civil rights leaders in the 1960s are now being targeted at immigrant rights activists in Georgia. Advocates say state lawmakers are partly to blame for creating an environment in which immigrants are treated as less than human....
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 9:11am PDT
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
There will be a (press conference with various community advocates denouncing the raids in the Bay area) and rally followed by a community celebration....
Posted: Sun, May 25, 2008 11:29am PDT
Agents from Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched raids of Canal neighborhood homes at 5 am Thursday May 22, 2008, only two days after Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey held a hearing on the impact of immigration enforcement on children. It’s reported that 17 people were taken, including the father of a Bahia Vista student who was due to have cancer surgery today. His young son was terrified that his father was going to die....
Posted: Sat, May 24, 2008 9:20pm PDT