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Immigration Hunts for 500,000 Absconders In an unprecedented crackdown on more than 500,000 absconders — illegal immigrants who have not followed deportation orders — U.S. authorities this year are nearly tripling the number of federal officers assigned to round up such fugitives....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 7:20pm PST
Anti-immigrant bill moves to Senate The Senate Judiciary Committee will shortly begin debate on the measures it will send to the Senate floor on immigration law, one of the key legislative and electoral issues of 2006....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:20am PST
1/20: Please Sign the Petitions to Oppose Anti-Immigrant Bills! We are asking you for your help in collecting signatures for a petition addressed to the Los Angeles City Council requesting they adopt a resolution in favor of the immigrant community....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 9:03pm PST
EU Threatens Members Over Immigrant Rights The European Commission threatened on Friday, January20 , firm action against European countries failing to grant rights to long-term immigrants from countries outside the25 -nation bloc....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 5:58pm PST
Australian Government accused of blood on its hands over Papuan Asylum Seekers Reports from West Papua detail that the Indonesian military are engaging in reprisal killing in response to 43 Papuans seeking asylum in Australia. Five people have been shot by the Indonesian military, two dead, with one of the killed teenagers being a relative of one of the asylum seekers. The survivors of what was described as an unprovoked attack, are in a critical condition....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:25am PST
Bush on Border Wall, Guest Workers, and Amnesty New America Media, Transcript Excerpt, Jan 19, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 6:37pm PST
Humanitarian Aide Volunteers Face Possibility of Prison A trial that could set a precedent for volunteers who offer humanitarian aid to undocumented migrants has been postponed until after a federal judge in Tucson, AZ decides whether or not to dismiss the charges....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:43am PST
Immigration Reform: From 'American Dream' to 'Latino Nightmare' A young man whose mother immigrated from Nicaragua looks at the immigration reform debate and finds frightening changes on the horizon....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 9:09am PST
EU Meets to Toughen Immigration Laws Seeking to reduce the number of refugees trying to enter the European Union, EU ministers moved Friday, January13 , to harmonize asylum laws and pledged to strengthen cooperation on deporting illegal immigrants....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:24am PST
The 'Paper Ceiling' -- Undocumented Youths Face Barriers at the Brink of Adulthood At an age when most teenagers are getting their driver's licenses, working their first jobs and applying to college, more and more young people are coming face to face with what it means to grow up without papers....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:39am PST
2005: The Year Hatred Went Mainstream Along U.S-Mexico Border Christian Ramirez is the director of the American Friends Service Commitee in San Diego, a human rights organization offering job placement, legal advice and housing leads to undocumented people crossing into the United States....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:38am PST
Working Immigrant Safety and Health Coalition Trainings in Feb 
Two day training 2/9 and 2/16, 9 to 5pm @ Freedom Archives, 522 Valencia Street, San Francisco, 94110 - lunch provided...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:41pm PST
CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SPREADS BLOOD LIBEL AGAINST HOLY QURAN, ISLAM & MUSLIMS "The Cleveland Public Library has a Quran that may have been bound in the skin of its previous owner, an Arab tribal leader. Pam Eyerdam, head of the library's fine arts and special collections department, said he may have wanted to immortalize himself. 'People kept their family histories written in Bibles, and what is a Quran?' she said."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/01/07/some_of_nations_best_libraries_have_books_bound_in_human_skin...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 8:57am PST
1/18: Immigrant organizing meeting against federal proposal WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2006
12:00 TO 2:00
CENTRO DEL PUEBLO
474 VALENCIA ST. (AT 16TH ST.)
2ND FLOOR AUDITORIUM
SAN FRANCISCO...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:38pm PST
La guerra contra inmigrantes ha sido declarada! The Peace and Freedom Party of Fesno County joins El Comite No Nos Vamos in calling for an end to the war on immigrants....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 6:22pm PST
18-year-old shot by Border Patrol Killing fuels Mexican anger over US immigration policy...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:04am PST
Minutement Target Day Laborers Day workers across the country will peacefully respond to coordinated vigilante actions organized by Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control and local cells of the so-called “Minutemen.”...
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 10:13pm PST
Decades Later, Mexican Migrants Travel South to Receive Payment They boarded buses and headed north by the millions with strong arms and legs ready to pick fruits and vegetables or build railroad tracks during the labor shortage of World War II....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:19pm PST
Washington Pulse -- Alito Record Shows Hard Line on Immigrant Rights Little attention has been paid to Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito's views on immigration. As a lawyer for Reagan administration, Alito argued that immigrants who enter the United States illegally are not entitled to the rights afforded to American citizens....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:18pm PST
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