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May Day 2007: National Mobilization to Support Immigrant Workers! (Conference Call today) ============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ======
**REMINDER: May Day 2007 National Organizing Conference Call**
Monday, February 26, 2007
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Eastern Time (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific Time)
Dial-in Number: 1-605-725-3600 (South Dakota) Access Code: 91030...
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 11:41am PST
U.S. Government Illegally Censoring Speech at Border, Groups Tell Court NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a new motion in federal court seeking to strike down a provision of the Patriot Act that allows the United States government to deny entry to foreign scholars because of their political views. The law, known as the “ideological exclusion” provision, violates the right of Americans to hear constitutionally protected speech, charged the ACLU....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 7:03am PST
Four Sri Lankan workers beheaded in Saudi Arabia Last Monday the Saudi Arabian government beheaded four Sri Lankan migrant workers—Sanath Pushpakumara, E.J.Victor Corea, Ranjith De Silva and Sangeeth Kumara—despite years of protest from international human rights organisations and the victims’ pleas for clemency. The beheading brought the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia this year to at least 17, compared to 38 for all of 2006. Two-thirds of those killed were foreign nationals....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 6:12am PST
Raymondville: Inside the Largest Immigration Prison Camp in the US The largest immigrant prison camp is in Raymondville, Texas. Some two thousand undocumented immigrants are currently being held in the prison awaiting deportation. We speak with Jodi Goodwin, an immigration lawyer representing a number of immigrants being held there....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 7:37am PST
Hundreds Protest NYU Republicans’ “Find the Illegal Immigrant” Game Hundreds of people gathered at New York University on Thursday to protest a game called “Find the Illegal Immigrant” organized by the school’s Republican club. Democracy Now! was there to speak with students on both sides....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 7:36am PST
Human Rights Groups Call for Closure of Texas Jail Holding Undocumented Immigrants Human rights groups are calling for the U.S. government to shut down a jail in Texas where about 200 immigrant children, some only infants, are being detained. The Hutto facility in Taylor, Texas is owned by the private prison company, Corrections Corporations of America. We speak to an immigrant rights advocate who visited the center and an attorney for families being held in Texas immigration detention centers....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 7:34am PST
Immigration reform returns to Congress As Congress returns to the subject of immigration, the Bush administration has stepped up arrests and deportations of immigrants. Meanwhile, in his State of the Union message, Bush once again stressed the creation of a new guest worker program. Both have to be countered by the immigrant rights movement....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 7:00am PST
Latino Groups Divided over Another Boycott LOS ANGELES – The dilemma many immigrants wrestled with last year about whether to participate in a nationwide labor boycott promises to repeat itself this spring.
Activists from across the nation gathered in Los Angeles last weekend to prepare for another national boycott May 1, when immigrants will be asked to refrain from working, shopping, going to school or selling goods....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 6:26am PST
CT: stop university censorship of forum against raids! The administration of Western Connecticut State University is
attempting to censor the upcoming forum on the immigration raids set
for Sunday...
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 12:47pm PST
‘Immigrants Bring Crime’ Is a Myth Government and academic studies prove decisively that the common belief that immigrants, especially undocumented ones, bring criminality is based on a big lie. Walter Ewing is a Research Associate at the Immigration Policy Center. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 9:30am PST
May Day 2007: Call to Action & 2/26 National Organizing Conference Call National Mobilization to Support Immigrant Workers!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 12:06am PST
Democrat Governor Says: "No Iraqis in Our Backyards!" The following news brief ran on the Associated Press yesterday:
Strickland Doesn´t Want Overflow Iraqi Refugees
"Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has a message for President Bush: any plan to relocate to the US thousands of refugees uprooted by the Iraq war shouldn't include Ohio.
The administration plans to allow about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to settle in the United States over the next year, a huge expansion at a time of mounting international pressure to help millions who hav...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 2:28pm PST
Iraq's Other Surge Najah worked as an interpreter for the U.S. military at the Falcon base in Baghdad. One day as he left base, a car sprayed him with bullets, hitting him in both legs and his abdomen. Najah left the hospital after two days, fearing insurgents would find him there and kill him: "After the shooting, everyone knew I was working for the Americans." After recovering sufficiently, he fled to Jordan, where he is stuck without papers, and could be deported at any time....
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 10:23am PST
2/25 in LA: Stop the ICE Raids Organizing Summit WHAT: STOP THE ICE RAIDS ORGANIZING SUMMIT
WHEN: Sunday February 25, 2007 10:00AM - 2:00PM
WHERE: UCLA Downtown Labor Center 675 S. Parkview Street, Los Angeles, CA...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 10:10pm PST
UK government steps up assault on asylum-seekers The British Labour government is ratcheting up the pressure on asylum-seekers and refugees in Britain. Deportations are being pursued regardless of the consequences for the deportees. This policy reflects an increasingly belligerent government attitude towards refugees....
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 1:39pm PST
How Anti-Terror Laws Hurt Asylum Seekers Terrorism definitions are so broad that DHS admitted they may even deny asylum to the Iraqi national who helped in the rescue of American soldier Jessica Lynch. Sarnata Reynolds is the Director of the Amnesty International USA Refugee Program, a member of Detention Watch Network. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 9:25am PST
The Experience of Mohammad, 11-year-old in US Prison During the day Friday, the words of 11-year-old Mohammad Hazahza have filled him up and weighed him down. On Friday night, he pours the words back out, as if wanting to be lifted back up....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:24pm PST
Give H1-B Visa Holders a Life A German scientist lost more than his visa when his job ran out; he lost his family as well. Dr. Dirk Krueger, who was last with the Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a member of Immigration Voice. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights groups and advocates....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:26am PST
Video-chronicle: Demonstration against racism and foreigners law 
500 people took part in the demonstration against racism in Alcorcon and in the whole Madrid region.
The immigrant people and the antifascist youth marched around the streets of the multicultural neighbourhood of Lavapies shouting: “native or foreigner, it is the same working class”....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 3:11am PST
Independent film shines a light in the dark canyons of immigration The hypocrisy of U.S. immigration policy is underscored by a little-known reality of Mexican migrants in the border city of San Diego.
An estimated 2,000 undocumented Mexicans live in tiny shacks in the rocky, rattlesnake-invested, brush-covered canyons abutting high-end San Diego communities that boast multi-million dollar mansions....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:28am PST
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