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INB 8/16/08: Detainee Dies in Rhode Island; Boston Raids Protested On Aug. 13, more than 150 people from immigrant rights organizations, labor unions, religious congregations and other groups rallied at Boston's City Hall Plaza to protest the raids and the collaboration between local police and ICE, and to demand fair immigration policies. The rally was sponsored by groups including Jobs with Justice and Centro Presente....
Posted: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 6:59pm PDT
Cancer-Stricken 34-Year-Old Chinese Computer Engineer Dies After Being Denied Care in Private US Immigration Prison Tuesday, August 19, 2008 :Earlier this month, a thirty-four-year-old Chinese computer engineer, Hiu Lui Ng, who overstayed his visa, died in a Rhode Island immigration detention center. He had cancer in his liver, lung and bones, and a fractured spine. Despite repeated complaints of severe pain, Mr. Ng was refused independent medical evaluation by immigration officials. Before Mr. Ng died on August 6th, he told his sister that the nurses at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center in Rhode Island...
Posted: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 8:10am PDT
Canada to deport another Iraq war resister to the US Tuesday, August 19, 2008 :The Canada Border Service Agency last week ordered Jeremy Hinzman, the first US soldier to refuse to serve in Iraq and apply for political refugee status in Canada, to be deported back to the US. The ruling was handed down one month after Robin Long became the first US war resister to be deported from Canada....
Posted: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 7:30am PDT
Facing Years in US Prison, Iraq War Resister Jeremy Hinzman Ordered Deported from Canada Friday, August 15, 2008 :In 2004, Jeremy Hinzman became the first war resister to seek asylum in Canada instead of going to fight in Iraq. On Wednesday, Canada's Border Services Agency ordered the twenty-nine-year-old Hinzman, his wife, son and baby daughter to leave the country by Sept. 23. We speak to Jeremy Hinzman from Toronto....
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2008 7:44am PDT
Police and Feds Set Tone for Chronicle Attack of Sanctuary Ordinance Wednesday, August 13, 2008 : Carelessly referencing vague sources and leading with off the cuff remarks by law enforcement, the San Francisco Chronicle and reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken have published a series of damaging articles about juvenile immigrant offenders and the city's sanctuary ordinance. The implication in the series of stories that began to appear on June 29, is that violent felons and crack dealers are taking advantage of the City’s Sanctuary Ordinance and specifically a policy a...
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 7:14am PDT
Australia: Rudd government modifies immigration detention regime Wednesday, August 13, 2008 :In an attempt to distance the Rudd government from the notorious immigration policies of the previous Howard government, Immigration Minister Chris Evans last month announced alterations to Australias mandatory detention regime for asylum seekers....
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 7:13am PDT
INB 8/10/08: Union Protests Arrests in Pennsylvania Local 32BJ organized a rally on Aug. 5 in front of St. Patrick's Church on DeKalb Street in Norristown to protest the arrests and show solidarity with the workers. On Aug. 7 a crowd of 150 people, including members of Local 32BJ and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776, attended a second rally on the Montgomery County courthouse steps in Norristown....
Posted: Tue, Aug 12, 2008 5:13pm PDT
Targeting Immigrants - The Largest Ever US ICE Raid Police state tactics intensify....
Posted: Tue, Aug 12, 2008 8:00am PDT
ADVISORY: ACLU says Sacramento police 'racial profiling' similar to rest of U.S. The Sacramento Chapter of the ACLU today criticized the
Sacramento Police Department for what it calls evidence of "racial
profiling" after an analysis of traffic stops revealed black and Latino
drivers were much more likely to be pulled over by police than other
drivers in Sacramento....
Posted: Sun, Aug 10, 2008 2:17pm PDT
Plight of Iraqi Refugees From a Friday, August 8, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sat, Aug 9, 2008 12:02pm PDT
Texas executes Mexican and Honduran nationals The state of Texas sent two prisoners to their deaths within two days this week, following US Supreme Court rulings that rejected stays of execution despite international protests....
Posted: Fri, Aug 8, 2008 8:05am PDT
New information on today's court hearing of Dee Allen, arrested protesting the Minutemen Dee Allen was arrested recently, among hundreds protesting the racist and xenophobic Minutemen, who were spreading their hateful and dangerous message that immigrants, and by inuendo, Latinos, are violent low-life that threaten the safety of community. Dee's crime: spitting at an officer....
Posted: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 4:54pm PDT
Italian government imposes national state of emergency On July 25, the Italian government headed by Silvio Berlusconi proclaimed a national state of emergency due to the continuing inflow of refugees by boat from across the Mediterranean Sea. This means that the state of emergency already imposed on Italy’s three southernmost provinces—Sicily, Apulia and Calabria—will be expanded to encompass the entire country....
Posted: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 7:26am PDT
Farmworkers dying from Heat Dozens of farmworkers have died from heatstroke in the last decade in California. No one knows exactly how many because sometimes their deaths are not recorded as heat-related or not recorded at all. Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez is one whose story we do know....
Posted: Tue, Aug 5, 2008 2:34pm PDT
Spain: Socialist government turns on immigrants as economy heads for recession Spain’s Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) government is turning on the country’s immigrant population as the economy heads towards recession. The PSOE administration headed by Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero was once regarded as Europe’s most liberal, left-leaning administration, but it today allies itself with the most right wing elements in the European Union (EU). One could go further and say Zapatero and his ministers are now leading the xenophobic pack....
Posted: Mon, Aug 4, 2008 7:33am PDT
San Diego Company Carries Out Privatized Deportations for Hospitals MexCare, a company based in Chula Vista, aids hospitals in deporting uninsured undocumented immigrants....
Posted: Sun, Aug 3, 2008 7:57am PDT
Xenophobia: A direct result of failed ANC economic policies The xenophobic attacks taking place in different parts of South Africa have gripped local and foreign media attention. Graphic details are portrayed in the media of “mobs” attacking immigrants, looting, raping and killing. It appears as if the intensity of the hatred for the immigrant community has caught everyone by complete surprise....
Posted: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 7:44am PDT
Did hate speech lead to murder of Mexican immigrant? "[The hate] is being whipped up by right wing, mostly Republican politicians who have absolutely nothing to show for eight years in power except an illegal war and a tanking economy, and who therefore have to find red herrings to distract the voters. This is being facilitated by irresponsible media personalities like Lou Dobbs who retail slanderous information about Latinos, Mexicans and immigrants for hours every week."...
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2008 6:48pm PDT
Bush Signs President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Legislation President Bush signed the President’s Emergency Program (PEPFAR) into law yesterday at the White House.
The landmark bill, which passed in both the House and Senate by wide margins earlier this month, provides $48 billion over the next five years for the global fight of AIDS. Within the legislation is a directive to lift the HIV travel/immigration ban, which bars foreign travelers with HIV/AIDS from entering the United States unless they obtain a spouse or family waiver. That ban is blatantl...
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2008 4:44pm PDT
Bush Signs President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Legislation Out4Immigration Applauds Bill's Call for Removal of Discriminatory HIV Travel/Immigration Ban...
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2008 2:46pm PDT
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