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Conversations with Indian American: My California Vacation Ethnic diversity is nothing new in California, although the state that denies its own history discovers its immigrants every decade. There has never been a decade in the state's history when its elites have not startled its population with a panic over its immigrants. Mexicans know this intimately, but so do Asians, and so do Central Americans. California might have an Austrian governor, but he is certainly not an immigrant. To be an immigrant today is to be of color; that's categorical....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 9:40am PST
Brutality Highlights Plight of Sudanese Refugees The brutal onslaught by Egyptian police forces on Sudanese refugees in Cairo shed light on a human tragedy of a large scale and continued to draw criticisms Saturday, December31 ....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 9:34am PST
January 2006 U.S. Immigrant News Alert! No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 5:00am PST
Minutemen now hunting immigrants in MEXICO!! Racist immigrant hunters are now organizing to search for immigrants while they are still in Mexico!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 3:57pm PST
Immigrants Abused in INS Detention I bring this to you after being in INS detention for 2 months. I was detained by INS for no specific reason and was slated for deportation to India. While in INS custody I met with other detainees who have been in INS detention for period ranging from a few years to one Sikh detainee who has been in INS limbo for 9 years being shunted form one INS facility to another....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 1:32pm PST
Minutemen Mobilize Whites Left Behind by Globalization Cross the white picket fence of the Minutemen offices in Tombstone, Ariz. and you're immediately aware that the federal government denied the local media mogul his constitutional right to bear arms. And, the sign on the front door adds, “ Minutemen founder Chris Simcox trains his infrared scope on the border. BEWARE of his armed bodyguard who is still exercising his second amendment rights.”...
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:33pm PST
Young Immigrant Family URGENTLY Needs Your Support! Last Thursday in San Francisco at 7 in the morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with guns busted into the apartment of two Young Workers United members...
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 8:52pm PST
US House passes draconian anti-immigrant bill The US House of Representatives passed a sweeping anti-immigration bill on December 16, laced with measures that, if passed, would create a virtual military-police zone along the US-Mexican border. The bill would criminalize all undocumented immigrants, would vastly expand the powers of the state to target these immigrants, and poses serious threats to the democratic rights of all workers in the US....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 6:59am PST
Abused Immigrants File Complaint Against Welfare Agencies in NY NEW YORK -- Thirteen immigrant women who were abused by their husbands have filed a complaint in Manhattan Federal Court against city and state agencies who denied them public assistance, reports El Diario/La Prensa. All 13 of the women are legal U.S. residents, and many are mothers who came to New York to reunite with their spouses after years of separation. Under federal and state laws, legal residents qualify for public assistance....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 6:51am PST
House Debates Immigration Laws, Including Making it a Felony to be an Undocumented Worker The House debates a bill that would rewrite the nation's immigration laws. The legislation makes it a felony to be an undocumented worker to be in the United States without authorization and requires all employers to verify the legal status of their workers. We speak with the general counsel of the immigration worker program at the AFL-CIO and a member of the Border Network for Human Rights....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:19am PST
Help Defeat Unrealistic & Dangerous Immigration Legislation In just a few days the House of Representatives will vote on a misguided and harmful immigration proposal that would, among other things, make unlawful presence a crime....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 10:34pm PST
En español: Candidato Pacifista Para desafiar Diane Feinstein 
Ensamble por favor a Todd Chretien en una rueda de prensa jueves, de diciembre el 15 en el 10am en 1 Post Street en San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 1:45pm PST
Urgent Action: Oppose Anti-Immigrant Bill Your House representative needs to hear from you about why this bad bill should not pass. Instead, he or she should support comprehensive immigration reform such as the AgJobs bill (H.R. 884)...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:44pm PST
Day Laborers Face Uncertain Future under Bush’s Immigration Plan They earn a living day-to-day, painting houses, installing roofs, gardening and offering their work at a low cost. Day laborers are the most visible undocumented group of Latino immigrants in the United States, and their lives may soon change if a guest worker plan proposed this week by Pres. George Bush is approved by Congress....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 6:36am PST
Theresa Dang acquitted of all criminal charges “They
saw that this was a politically-motivated charge
brought forth by the Garden Grove Police Department
against Dang for exercising her constitutional rights
of free speech and assembly."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:52pm PST
November 2005 U.S. Immigrant News Alert! November 2005 U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter
Published by National Immigrant Solidarity Network...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:44am PST
Minuteman Exposed By Their Own By Raoul Lowery Contreras
November 27, 2005...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 12:42pm PST
100 Arrested at Wal-Mart Construction Site in Allentown - immigration violations In 2003, a raid of 60 Wal-Mart stores in 21 states led to the arrests of 245 illegal workers. An affidavit claimed a pair of senior Wal-Mart executives knew cleaning contractors were hiring illegal immigrants. The retailer agreed to pay $11 million in March to settle the case but denied senior executives knew of the hirings....
Posted: Fri, Nov 18, 2005 1:47pm PST
As Flames Die Down, Young People in France Exhale and Organize PARIS--Burnt and rotting garbage spills from melted dumpsters at the entrance to a public housing project here in Saint Denis, a suburb north of Paris. The refuse has lain here for more than a week, blocking the walkway and serving as a reminder of the violence. Four teenagers stand in front of the building, one of them holding tight to a dog on a leash. As they turn to walk away, one of them says, "Nobody has come to clean it up because nobody cares."...
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 2:42pm PST
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