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Three Hots, A Cot, And A Squat For 20,000 - Immigration Compromise… More Detention Camps Three hots, a cot, and a squat for 20,000 courtesy of the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity. It’s innocuously entitled: Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007...
Posted: Mon, May 21, 2007 10:25am PDT
Senate immigration “compromise”: Democrats join Bush in assault on democratic rights The US Senate begins consideration Monday of S. 1348, the bipartisan immigration bill negotiated between the Bush administration and a group of senators, Democratic and Republican, and backed by the Senate leadership of both parties. While described in the media as a “compromise” bill, in which advocates and opponents of immigration have sought to bridge their differences, the actual provisions of the bill represent an escalation of the war against democratic rights that the Bush administrati...
Posted: Mon, May 21, 2007 6:17am PDT
The Anatomy of an Immigration Raid ICE’s raid on a New Bedford factory underscores the inhumane way the federal agency operates in enforcing immigration laws says Mary Holper of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network. The raid left scores of families without a breadwinner or legal recourse....
Posted: Mon, May 21, 2007 6:11am PDT
Presidential Candidate: Immigrants Beaten Coast to Coast On a day when Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton spent the evening in rallies with thousands of immigrants, to make amends for the terrible beatings that hundreds of immigrants and reporters received at the Los Angeles May Day rallies, President Bush, along with key Democrats and Republicans, took their tern beating up 12 million immigrants coast to coast....
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 8:12pm PDT
Editorial Racism At The Santa Cruz Sentinel Pits Latinos Against UCSC Students? In modern American culture, cars are inherently deadly weapons in the
hands of adolescents.
Adult adolescents, AND the ones under 20-something too.
But to the point... I do have one.
I have zero tolerance for institutionalized racism.
[...] "The bicyclist, who carried no ID, had not been identified late
Friday. He was a Latino male riding a 21-speed mountain bike without a
helmet, according to the CHP.
***Investigators said they don't know why he was out or where he was
goi...
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 10:25am PDT
Presidential Candidate: Immigrants Beaten Coast to Coast On a day when Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton spent the evening in rallies with thousands of immigrants, to make amends for the terrible beatings that hundreds of immigrants and reporters received at the Los Angeles May Day rallies, President Bush, along with key Democrats and Republicans, took their tern beating up 12 million immigrants coast to coast....
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 7:18am PDT
First Stament on New immigration Deal The Immigrant Workers Union opposes last night's congressional agreement and warns that it paves the way for the biggest human rights offense in this century....
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 6:25pm PDT
30,000 March /Rally Renews Call for Immigrant rights: Took Back Macarthur Park Immigrants and their advocated returned to the streets for the first time since May Day with Latino elected officials in tow, escorted by the LAPD who piggy backed for “public relations” during the march/rally to erase police brutality. More than 25,000 immigrant rights activists marched Thursday to Macarthur Park to again call for a path to citizenship for the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants. The Filipino contingent led by the Pilipino Workers Center and the AJLPP attended by scores o...
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 8:14am PDT
Immigrant Rights Groups Condemn New Senate Proposal To Overhaul Nation's Immigration Laws A bipartisan group of Senators have proposed a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to continue to work here if they fulfill a number of requirements including paying a $5,000 fine and getting a biometric identification card. The bill would also established a guest-worker program and increase security on the U.S.-Mexican border....
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 7:56am PDT
Bipartisan Senate plan would deepen exploitation of immigrant workers A group of Democratic and Republicans senators on Thursday announced a bipartisan proposal to overhaul the US immigration system that contains punitive measures against undocumented workers currently in the US and regressive provisions that would prevent future immigrants from bringing parents, adult children or other family members into the country....
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 6:13am PDT
Watsonville declared immigrant sanctuary Watsonville declared immigrant sanctuary...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 12:21pm PDT
Los Angeles Tenants to Confront Landlord Professor About Illegal Evictions Today at 7:00 p.m. at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, a group of low-income tenants will enter their landlord’s real estate investment class and come face-to-face with the man who is trying to displace them and demand he stop illegal attempts to evict them....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 9:04am PDT
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT'S RESURGENCE The US Senate, will finally begin debates this coming Wednesday, May 16, on the much-awaited comprehensive immigration reform bill. The new comprehensive immigration reform bill is supposed to decide the fate of more than 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
On the other hand, the immigrant rights movement led by advocates and immigrant organizations all over the country are gearing up for the passage of a real comprehensive immigrant reform law that will benefit them...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 1:16pm PDT
BAIRC Update 5-11-07 - events & actions i took out the first event, since it happened already...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 9:31am PDT
IMMIGRATION DEBATES UP IN THE US SENATE, NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT LAUNCHED IN THE U.S. The US Senate, after a long delay will finally begin debates this coming Wednesday, May 16, on the much-awaited comprehensive immigration reform bill that will decide the fate of more than 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
The issue: Amnesty or a guest worker program?
Senator Arlan Specter wanted the Senate Bill 2611 to be revived while the White House proposes a very expensive “ temporary guest worker program” The democratic party promised a comprehensive imm...
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2007 1:14pm PDT
'Illegal' is racism in disguise At last night's Beret meeting one of our compañeras brought up the issue of the widely used term "Illegal Alien" and its link to the racist eugenics movement. It prompted this letter to the editors of the local corporate press....
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 3:47pm PDT
May Day 2007 Rally & March in Modesto We are NOT Immigrants was the message at this year’s May Day Movement in Modesto, California. Over 3,000 protestors took to Modesto streets to demand a legalization bill and equal treatment for the millions living in the United States without papers.
The turnout was nowhere near the 10,000 to 12,000 that marched in 2006, when the threat of Sensenbrenner’s House Resolution 4437 brought out record numbers across the nation. But the message was more powerful and resolute....
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 2:49pm PDT
Congress Introduces Bill to Give Same-Sex Binational Couples Same Rights as Heterosexuals In a major step to end immigration discrimination against gay and lesbian couples and their families, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) on Tuesday. This legislation would allow Americans in same-sex binational relationships to sponsor their “permanent partners” for ...
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 2:46pm PDT
Violence Against Immigrants Builds Officials in Los Angeles are scurrying to make amends for the LAPD’s violence against immigrant marchers last week. The violence suggests a disturbing trend, writes New America Media contributing editor Roberto Lovato....
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 6:23am PDT
Family Immigration Could Be Radically Reduced Over the next weeks a new immigration bill is being discussed in Washington which may reduce the chances of re-uniting those families split between immigrants here and family members left behind in their home country. This editorial by NAM immigration editor Sandip Roy is a call to action for ethnic media editors....
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 7:48pm PDT
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