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‘Immigrants Bring Crime’ Is a Myth Government and academic studies prove decisively that the common belief that immigrants, especially undocumented ones, bring criminality is based on a big lie. Walter Ewing is a Research Associate at the Immigration Policy Center. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 9:30am PST
2/20: San Pablo: Council to address immigration raids The San Pablo City Council will tackle the recent enforcement actions by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even as ICE's chill on the local Latino community has receded somewhat now that the agency apparently has shifted its focus to other areas....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 5:57pm PST
Day laborer stabbed to death on Oakland street Sunday A man heading to look for work in a day labor hiring zone in Oakland's Fruitvale district Sunday morning was stabbed to death by a man who demanded money before attacking him, police said....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 5:50pm PST
2/26: Pittsburg rally/mtg for immigration law reform The next is planned for 7 p.m., Feb. 26 at the church, which is at 740 Black Diamond Street in Pittsburg....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 5:45pm PST
More on redwood city minutemen rally and the counter rally A better report on the minuteklan rally and the spontaaoeus local latino-led counter rally. This report is from the mainstream newspaper "Daily Journal"....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 9:06am PST
May Day 2007: Call to Action & 2/26 National Organizing Conference Call National Mobilization to Support Immigrant Workers!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 12:06am PST
MayDay 2006 DVD ¡Gigante Despierta! My name is Franklin Lopez and I am collaborating with Indymedia (http://video.indymedia.org) on a DVD project about the May Day 2006 migrant rights marches. The working title is ¡Gigante: Despierta! (Giant: Awake!) This DVD project is a compilation of video pieces shot during the May Day 2006 immigrant marches and due to hit the streets several weeks before May 1 of this year.
Me llamo Franklin López y colaboro con http://video.indymedia.org en un proyecto que busca producir un DVD de la...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 6:03pm PST
I saw this in mainstream news account. Does anyone know who the counter-protesters were? Minutemen and counter-protesters face off in Redwood city. Does anyone know who the counter-protesters were?...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 5:27pm PST
Democrat Governor Says: "No Iraqis in Our Backyards!" The following news brief ran on the Associated Press yesterday:
Strickland Doesn´t Want Overflow Iraqi Refugees
"Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has a message for President Bush: any plan to relocate to the US thousands of refugees uprooted by the Iraq war shouldn't include Ohio.
The administration plans to allow about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to settle in the United States over the next year, a huge expansion at a time of mounting international pressure to help millions who hav...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 2:28pm PST
Iraq's Other Surge Najah worked as an interpreter for the U.S. military at the Falcon base in Baghdad. One day as he left base, a car sprayed him with bullets, hitting him in both legs and his abdomen. Najah left the hospital after two days, fearing insurgents would find him there and kill him: "After the shooting, everyone knew I was working for the Americans." After recovering sufficiently, he fled to Jordan, where he is stuck without papers, and could be deported at any time....
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 10:23am PST
2/25 in LA: Stop the ICE Raids Organizing Summit WHAT: STOP THE ICE RAIDS ORGANIZING SUMMIT
WHEN: Sunday February 25, 2007 10:00AM - 2:00PM
WHERE: UCLA Downtown Labor Center 675 S. Parkview Street, Los Angeles, CA...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 10:10pm PST
UK government steps up assault on asylum-seekers The British Labour government is ratcheting up the pressure on asylum-seekers and refugees in Britain. Deportations are being pursued regardless of the consequences for the deportees. This policy reflects an increasingly belligerent government attitude towards refugees....
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 1:39pm PST
Last Minute annoucement of Minutemen rally in Saturday in Redwood City Announcement from mainstream press of Minutemen rally Saturday in Redwood City...
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 4:01pm PST
How Anti-Terror Laws Hurt Asylum Seekers Terrorism definitions are so broad that DHS admitted they may even deny asylum to the Iraqi national who helped in the rescue of American soldier Jessica Lynch. Sarnata Reynolds is the Director of the Amnesty International USA Refugee Program, a member of Detention Watch Network. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 9:25am PST
The Experience of Mohammad, 11-year-old in US Prison During the day Friday, the words of 11-year-old Mohammad Hazahza have filled him up and weighed him down. On Friday night, he pours the words back out, as if wanting to be lifted back up....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:24pm PST
I.C.E raids apartment complex in Coalinga Agents looking for one person conduct general sweep of the area....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 11:06am PST
Give H1-B Visa Holders a Life A German scientist lost more than his visa when his job ran out; he lost his family as well. Dr. Dirk Krueger, who was last with the Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a member of Immigration Voice. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights groups and advocates....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:26am PST
Please Join Us- Immigrant Rights and Labor Events in Feb. ...picketing for the Woodfin workers
who just before Christmas last year were laid off for asserting their
rights under Measure C...
Valentine's Day for a boycott action in solidarity with laid off
workers of Monster Cable....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 3:54pm PST
Independent film shines a light in the dark canyons of immigration The hypocrisy of U.S. immigration policy is underscored by a little-known reality of Mexican migrants in the border city of San Diego.
An estimated 2,000 undocumented Mexicans live in tiny shacks in the rocky, rattlesnake-invested, brush-covered canyons abutting high-end San Diego communities that boast multi-million dollar mansions....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:28am PST
Forced Out: The Greatest Tragedy of Our Time As the world sees increasing numbers of refugees and internally displaced people due to warfare and environmental catastrophe, nations are tightening their borders and asylum laws. But all of us, at one time or another, run the risk of being forced from home. Andrew Lam is an editor at New America Media and author of "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora" (Heyday Books, 2005), which recently won a PEN/Beyond Margins award....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:16am PST
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