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Trial Begins in Landmark Challenge to Anti-Immigrant Laws in Hazleton, PA Laws Would Legitimize Discrimination Against Immigrant Community, Groups Charge...
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:46am PDT
Guest Workers Fired After Protesting 'Slave' Conditions Guest workers from India accuse a Mississippi shipyard of exploiting and treating them like slaves, reports NAM associate editor David Bacon....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:42am PDT
Deported and Detainees: ‘Stepchildren’ of Immigrant Rights Movement? As Congress takes up the immigration debate in coming weeks, some advocates worry that comprehensive immigration reform may come at the expense of rights for those most vulnerable to detention and deportation. Roberto Lovato is a writer and editor for New America Media based in New York City....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:41am PDT
Southern Poverty Law Center report: Slave labor conditions under US guestworker program The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) held a press conference in Washington DC Monday to release a report documenting the brutal exploitation and abuse of foreign temporary workers under so-called “guestworker” programs run by the US Department of Labor....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:39am PDT
Carlos Slim: US-Mexico immigrant fence 'absurd' George Bush, the US president, has arrived in Mexico and will meet Felipe Calderon, Mexico's president, in the last leg of his turbulent Latin American tour....
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 7:58am PDT
Inhospitable US Scares Off Visitors GRAND CANYON, Arizona — The heightened security craze and the lasting cloud of suspicion in post 9/11 America is driving away leisure travelers and damaging the country's substantial economic sector....
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 9:17am PDT
We immigrant women demand end of migra raids on our families We immigrant women demand end of migra raids on our families. 2:30 minute video...
Posted: Sun, Mar 11, 2007 7:55am PDT
No Borders Camp Info Meeting (3/17) Join organizers currently working along the US-Mexico border to discuss strategies, tactics and goals for the upcoming No Borders Camp in Calixico/Mexicali during the second week of November....
Posted: Sat, Mar 10, 2007 7:41pm PST
San Rafael ICE Raids Video Jimmy Justice's video from San Rafael ICE Protest March 9
http://blip.tv/file/166396/...
Posted: Sat, Mar 10, 2007 7:32pm PST
3/9: Updates on New Bedford, MA Immigrant Raid 3/9: Updates on New Bedford, MA Immigrant Raid...
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 11:03pm PST
ACLU Update on ICE Raids and Criminal Justice The legislative session is heating up, and we wanted to let you know about the issues we're
currently working on.
From reducing wrongful convictions to drug policy reform, the ACLU of
Northern California is advocating for a fair and equitable criminal
justice system....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 7:10pm PST
JFAV-Samahang Pilipino Conference March 10-11: ALL OUT FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE! “All Out for Equity and Justice” With this battle cry, the community advocates, students, youth and the remaining Filipino World War II veterans in Southern California and Los Angeles cordially invite the public to come and gather for a Unity Conference on March 10-11, 2007 in UCLA in Los Angeles, CA 90095. Veterans leaders like Commander Jack Vergara of the Society of Guerillas and Scouts Inc (SGSI); Commander Franco Arcebal of ACFV; Commander Peping Baclig of JFAV; Commander Joe Samonte of ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 11:13am PST
BAIRC News, Policy Update, Raids Update and Information lots going on...
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 8:35am PST
Racist Israeli Professor Tells Australians To Ban Muslims A self described academic on Islam and Jewish professor, Raphael Israeli, has been condemned for explicit racism and sparking trouble in Australia after calling for a limit on Islamic migration to Australia, because Muslims were violent....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 6:56am PST
The Littlest Deportees Immigrant advocates suspect that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is deporting a growing number of unaccompanied minors who’ve been caught trying to reunite with their parents already in the U.S., even when the parents have status, as in the case of one 9 year-old Honduran girl. The child is under deportation orders as an undocumented alien. Camille Taiara writes for NAM’s column Disappeared in America....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 6:20am PST
More than 300 seized in Massachusetts immigration raid Federal immigration authorities carried out a massive raid on a New Bedford, Massachusetts, plant Tuesday morning, detaining 300 to 350 immigrant workers and charging the company’s owner and three managers with knowingly hiring undocumented workers. The company holds a multimillion-dollar contract with the Defense Department producing supplies for the US military and runs a poverty-wage operation employing mostly Central American labor....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 6:15am PST
Marin Interfaith Council Canal Neighborhood Vigil The Marin Interfaith Council in cooperation with numerous local civic and community groups is announcing the following action in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors in the Canal District of San Rafael. Beginning Friday morning, March 9th, 5:00AM-8:30AM (the times of the raids!!) and continuing each week day until no longer necessary the Council is calling for a vigil of witness and solidarity to be kept in the Canal neighborhood focused primarily at the corners of Medway and Canal Street...
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 5:50pm PST
ACLU Challenges Illegal Detention of Immigrant Children Held in Prison-Like Conditions Lawsuits Ask That Children and Their Families be Released From Texas Facility Under Appropriate and Humane Supervision...
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 8:14am PST
Proposed Suffolk County Law Unfairly Criminalizes Day Laborers, NYCLU Testifies NEW YORK- The New York Civil Liberties Union today expressed its firm opposition to an anti-immigrant ordinance under consideration by the Suffolk County legislature, arguing in testimony that the bill criminalizes "standing while Latino" by unfairly targeting day laborers seeking work....
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 8:07am PST
ICE kidnappings in New Bedford: Mobilize labor's power to free them now! Immigration Gestapo kidnaps 500 workers in New Bedford
Mobilize labor's power to free them now!
Full citizenship rights for all immigrants!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 11:45am PST
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