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Sarkozy stigmatises immigrants and glorifies the French nation In a TV interview last Thursday and at a rally before 10,000 supporters in Caen in Normandy the following Friday, Nicolas Sarkozy, presidential candidate for the ruling Gaullist UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), announced his intention, if elected, to set up a new ministry of immigration and national identity and to further strengthen immigration restrictions....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:20am PDT
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
Know Your Rights Brochure 
Know Your Rights Brochure for Immigrants in Spanish and English...
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 12:00pm PDT
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
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
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
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
Denounce ICE Raid in New Bedford, MA on 3/7/07 This time it was the turn for
an East Coast location, New Bedford, Massachusetts where scores of workers
were taken away...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 11:28am PST
US Jails and Anti-Immigrant Practices: Incarceration of Families and Individuals This is a summary of reports about jails where la Migra (ICE) detains families and individuals SUSPECTED of violating U.S. immigration law. In this summary you will find links to information regarding current conditions of incarceration provoked by U.S. immigration law and lived by those incarcerated....
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:08am PST
Are YOU Ready for a National ID Card? Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security released new guidelines for compliance with the
REAL ID Act, which would create a national ID card and poses significant threats to civil
liberties. Read on for more information about REAL ID and how YOU can help stop it!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 2, 2007 6:31pm PST
Legislative Update: DREAM Act Action & CIR Update info and what you can do!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 11:56pm PST
Grim result of the ICE raids: Mothers taken from their children “THE ABDUCTION and detention were really ugly, but what’s worse is worrying about your children while you’re trapped in there.” Those are the words of Erica Jimenez, one of three mothers of children under 18 months old who were swept up along with 48 other immigrant workers in a Valentine’s Day raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Auburn, Wash., south of Seattle....
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 9:15am PST
Congress & Immigration in '07 -- Reform or Punishment? With a Democratic majority in Congress, immigration reform may be possible in the near future. But will it buckle under Bush's stress on enforcement? Rich Stolz is with the Center for Community Change. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 9:10am PST
March 2007 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly Digest New Congress, How It’ll Affect (or Benefit) Our Immigrant Rights Movement?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 7:27pm PST
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