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Hispanic Media Help Community Navigate 'Anti-Immigrant' Climate Thursday, July 5, 2007 : With federal immigration reform out of reach until 2009, and an increasing number of local “anti-immigrant” laws across the country, Spanish-language media must help their communities navigate a climate of panic and fear. Elena Shore is an editor and Latino media monitor for New America Media....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 8:28am PDT
Independence Day For Libby Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :TWhatever happened to "don't do the crime if you can't do the time," which allows tough-love conservatives to cheerfully sentence petty criminals to incarceration? Suddenly, no prison time for perjury and obstruction of justice is termed by this President to be a "harsh" penalty, because I....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 1:36pm PDT
Colorado Police Begin Immigration Enforcement Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :DENVER -- A special unit of the Colorado State Police officially began enforcing immigration law, reports Spanish news service EFE in Diario Hoy. The Colorado State Police immigration unit has 24 officers and an annual budget of $2.2 million. Created by a state law last year, the immigration unit's tasks include the detection and arrest of human traffickers as well as verification of identity documents....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 1:36pm PDT
Black and Brown unite to stop the Minutemen Los Angeles – Anti-Minuteman protestors, called by the Mayday Defense Committee and Unión del Barrio, linked arms across the 43rd Place entrance to Leimert Park three lines deep to defend the park against the minutemen. Across the street, Choose Black America (CBA), a front group for the anti-immigrant march sponsors, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and Save Our State, a Minuteman spin-off, fretted and stewed. The LAPD, obviously sensing the determination of the people and ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 10:27am PDT
Ethnic Seniors Lost in America Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :The American Association of Retired People held a first of its kind national diversity conference that explored a wide range of issues affecting America’s burgeoning elderly population, particularly their access to health care....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 9:15am PDT
Extracting Info From ICE Wednesday, July 4, 2007 : The Immigration and Customs Enforcement have left confusion in the media. Public information about the raids is hard to come by and accessing names of the disappeared virtually impossible. NAM contributor Nick Rahaim has some tips for the public and journalists on how to obtain the necessary information....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 9:14am PDT
Failure of Immigration Bill Could Lead to Racist Ordinances Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :New America Media, News Report, Eugenia Chien, Posted: Jul 03, 2007 Editor's Note: Immigration advocates warned ethnic media during a NAM Access Washington teleconference that with immigration reform effectively dead in the Senate, immigrant communities need to brace themselves for a defense against harsh enforcement-only ordinances....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 9:13am PDT
Economic Sanctions Against Iran are Old Hat—and They Have Never Worked Tuesday, July 3, 2007 :President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are talking about putting the economic squeeze on Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program. NAM contributing writer William O. Beeman says it won’t work....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 8:38am PDT
'Anti-Immigrant' Law Goes into Effect in Georgia Tuesday, July 3, 2007 :ATLANTA -- To drive or not to drive? This is one of many dilemmas that undocumented immigrants in Georgia now face, according to Spanish-language newspaper Mundo Hispánico and the Associated Press....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 8:38am PDT
Immigration Bill Failed: Xenophobes Do Victory Dance Monday, July 2, 2007 :The immigration bill’s defeat has got xenophobes celebrating, especially the Minutemen and talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh. Their victory dance now has echoes of the xenophobia from over a century ago, when the target was Chinese workers but the rhetoric startlingly similar, notes NAM editor Sandip Roy. Roy is the host of Up Front, a radio program on KALW 91.7 FM....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 9:05pm PDT
Immigration Bill Dies, Protests & Raids Continue On June 28, the US Senate defeated a measure that would have limited debate on immigration reform and cleared the way for final passage of a proposed "compromise" bill....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:31pm PDT
Worker Center Alliances: The Austin Example Monday, July 2, 2007 : Last week, we reported that Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, Calif., was the first local worker center in the Golden State to affiliate with a local AFL-CIO central body....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 6:55pm PDT
Assimilation is a Double-Edged Sword for Immigrants In 1993, Toni Morrison wrote, in a special issue of Time magazine on immigration, that the "most enduring and efficient rite of passage into American culture" for immigrants was "negative appraisals of the native-born black population....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 6:46pm PDT
Immigration Reform Is Needed, After Bush Stewart Alexander, a presidential hopeful with the Peace and Freedom Party, says, “I believe Congress should work on comprehensive immigration reform after President Bush ends his term in office. I do not believe this important issue should be used as a political football or as a bandage for an administration that is hemorrhaging before the nation and the world.”...
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 5:26pm PDT
NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL - Workers Will Inherit the Earth A Bittersweet Victory with the Defeat of S.1639 - Kennedy-Kyl Bill...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 1:23pm PDT
Immigrant children being shipped to `orphan camps,' source claims By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Wed Jun 27th, 2007 at 11:27:46 PM EST
As the immigration reform legislation reaches a critical circuit in the U.S. Senate, it is not inappropriate to raise an important question that all Senators must consider when they vote.
Over the past year, there have been numerous federal operations, carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), where thousands of immigrants have been rounded up in surprise workplace raids — a number of them likely not eve...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 12:59pm PDT
Bush to Announce Korean Visa Waiver Sunday, July 1, 2007 :SEOUL -- U.S. President George Bush is expected to announce a planned expansion of the country’s Visa Waiver Program to include South Korea, reports Jung Sung-ki for Korean-language daily The Korea Times....
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 12:20pm PDT
Northern California Worker Center Joins Local AFL-CIO Saturday, June 30, 2007 : The Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, Calif., is the first local worker center in the Golden State to affiliate with a local AFL-CIO central body....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:56am PDT
US: Senate Republicans kill plan to overhaul immigration law Saturday, June 30, 2007 :The defeat Thursday of sweeping immigration legislation backed by both the White House and the Democratic congressional leadership underscores the profound crisis of the Bush administration and the continuing swing to the right by the US political establishment and both of its major parties....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:50am PDT
Senate Fails to Pass Immigration Bill Cloture Vote Friday, June 29, 2007 : WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate blocked passage of the immigration reform bill today for the second time, when in a vote of 46 to 53, it failed to pass the cloture vote necessary to end debate and bring the bill to a final vote, reports EFE in the Spanish-language newspaper Hoy. Supporters fell 14 votes short of the 60 votes needed to wrap up debate within 30 hours....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:21am PDT
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