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Please contact your Senators today, and urge them to oppose the
REAL ID Act. Call your Senators by dialing the Capitol
Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and send the e-mail below!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 11:35am PDT
As part of what some see as the 'War Against Dissent', extraordinary events can occur within the US, life threatening events. Has so-called 'realpolitik' now effectively denied Americans the right to political asylum. There have been legitimate cases, including one based upon torture and attempted murder....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 11:05am PDT
On Wednesday afternoon, April 13, Senator Larry Craig and Sen. Edward Kennedy are likely to offer the AgJOBS farmworker immigration bill, S.359, as an amendment to the pending supplemental appropriations bill...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 10:30am PDT
For the last two weekends, Jessica and Walt have spent time on the Arizona-Mexico border, interacting with both the Minuteman Project volunteers and the ACLU Legal Observers. What they saw revealed problems with the activist movements....
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 7:56pm PDT
Monthly Newsletter From National Immigrant Solidarity Network
No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 2:49pm PDT
DREAM Act 2005: Introduction Imminent - More endorsements urgently needed!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 9:08pm PDT
Sadly, their efforts bear far more resemblance to xenophobic hate groups than they do to the original Minutemen from Massachusetts. Local, state, and federal officials have denounced their initiative as an unnecessary interference with border patrol authorities, and even President Bush referred to them as “vigilantes.”...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 12:57am PDT
XISPAS, the Los Angeles website & blog dedicated to Chicano culture, art, and politics, reports on the library crisis in Salinas California. The state will be closing three public libraries this coming June for "lack of funds", and raza are spearheading a struggle to keep the libraries open. This fight for public access is only part of our mounting battle for civil and human rights. El Movemiento is revitalized with the energy of a whole new generation working for peace and justice....
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 12:01pm PDT
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, in its traditional role as a guardian of civil liberties, announced today that it will be providing legal observers throughout the month of April at the site of the Minuteman Project at the Arizona-Mexico Border....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 10:43pm PDT
End Vigilante Hate Crimes and Impunity on the Border.
Don’t Let Elected Officials Off-the-Hook!
Week of Call-ins to insist that our officials do their jobs!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 9:14pm PST
Proposed Law Will Hurt Refugees
U.S. Senate to Consider REAL ID Act Soon...
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 10:45am PST
A series of high-profile immigrant issues, coupled with a new tough-on-immigrants mood in the legislature has people in Wisconsin and beyond concerned about bad legislation that discriminates against immigrants....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:35pm PST
The following is a heart wrenching appeal from the wife of Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, a Pakistani convenience store owner in Houston, Texas, who is facing 30 years in prison and deportation. This is an example of one of the many ways in which the government is persecuting Pakistanis and other Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants. In this case the government launched an investigation, not of criminal activity, but of Pakistani convenience store owners who took out Small Business Administration guar...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 12:30am PST
According to the WA Dept of Health, these workers were forced to live in
outrageously crowded, unsanitary conditions--with only 21 beds for 45
people at one location, no cooking facilities at multiple locations, and
workers were forced to wash their clothes in trash cans....
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 10:48pm PST
Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Taco Bell Reach Groundbreaking Agreement; CIW to End Taco Bell Boycott; Taco Bell to Pay Penny-Per-Pound Surcharge Demanded by Workers, Will Work With CIW to Raise Farm Labor Standards in Supply Chain...
Posted: Tue, Mar 8, 2005 12:08pm PST
Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee Hearing Focused on the Immigration Enforcement Resources Authorized in Last Year's 9/11 CommissionLegislation...
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 10:59am PST
*New Homeland Security Secretary Should Make Reforms for
Refugees*
US Commission on International Religious Freedom Recommends
Changes
Take Action: Urge New DHS Secretary to Help Refugees...
Posted: Thu, Feb 24, 2005 11:10am PST
Indian Official Accused of Complicity in Riots That Left 1,000+ Muslims Dead...
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2005 8:26pm PST
ON FEBRUARY 20TH, TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES WEAR A BLUE TRIANGLE WITH THE NAME OF A MUSLIM, ARAB OR SOUTH ASIAN IMMIGRANT ROUNDED UP AND JAILED IN SECRET BY THE US GOVERNMENT AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 9:49pm PST
Approximately 20 amendments were offered to the bill. Of that number, six were ruled in order with the House approving three of the six. A brief outline of those six amendments follows:...
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 8:53pm PST