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Police and prison officers were today trying to regain control of Britain's largest immigration centre after major overnight disturbances....
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2006 7:16am PST
Thanksgiving Day is much more than turkey, trimmings, and football....
Posted: Thu, Nov 23, 2006 10:08am PST
WASHINGTON — Rude immigration officials and long delays in processing visas have turned the United States into the world's most unfriendly country for international travelers, a new global survey has showed, amid a controversy over the kicking off of six imams from a US Airways flight....
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 6:19am PST
National Mobilization to Support Immigrant Workers!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 12:57am PST
If officials truly value highly skilled legal immigrants waiting for permanent residency they wouldn't leave them stewing in frustrating bureaucratic backlogs, writes Amit Gupta, a member of Immigration Voice, a nonprofit trying to alleviate the problems faced by legal high-skilled foreign workers in the United States. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 9:29am PST
Indigenous Bolivian professor Waskar Ari was well on his way to a distinguished academic career in the U.S. -- until someone decided that his support for native rights put him in league with terrorists. "Disappeared in America" is a regular feature profiling immigrants who've been detained or deported and whose cases illustrate unjust or inhumane features of the Department of Homeland Security's immigration and detention systems. Camille T. Taiara (ctaiara@newamericamedia.org) edits the serie...
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 6:37am PST
THE HAGUE — Contrary to the hostile hustings speeches on immigration and integration that colored previous election campaigns, Dutch political parties electioneering for this month's general polls are shying away from playing the hoary-old tune falling on deaf ears with the electorate....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 6:36am PST
SOS holding rally in Sacto!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 2:15am PST
Student Organizer from Columbia University to Speak on Struggle Against Minutemen...
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 8:33pm PST
With the slogan" “”Full Rights for All immigrants, Justice for Veterans, Now” more than 2,000 people participated last Saturday’s PCORE/JFAV Annual Veterans Day Parade and Community Health Fair in Historic Filipinotown , Los Angeles. The event started will the emotional and solemn unveiling of the Filipino World War II Memorial Monument at the Lake Street Park. The memorial monument is a tribute of the City of Los Angeles to honor the contribution of Filipino Word War II veterans during the S...
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2006 1:08pm PST
With the slogan" “”Family Reunification and Veterans Equity, Now! , Filipino Americans in Los Angeles are all set for the 6th PCORE/ JFAV Annual Veterans Day. The Annual Veterans Day Parade and Community Health Fair in Historic Filipino town in Los Angeles will be held on Saturday, November 11, 2005 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.The event will start with the unveiling of the Filipino World War II Memorial Monument at the Lake Street Park 227 N. Lake St. at 9:00 in the morning. The memorial monument...
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 10:22am PST
Pagkatapos ng eleksyong 2006, malinaw na panalo ang mga Demokrata sa midterm elections nitong Nobyembre 7. Mahigit 21 bagong kongresista ang naipanalo ng mga ito laban sa dating mayoryang Republicans. Mahigpit pang pinaglalalabanan ang anim na pwesto sa senado. Nakuha din ng mga demokrata ang mayorya ng mga goberador sa 50 estado ng Ameriak na isang pinakamalaking bagay sa loob ng 20 taon.
Maraming nagsasabing ang mga matitinding eskandalo ang pumatay sa mga Republikano. Nariyan ang mga ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2006 1:48pm PST
SAN DIEGO – It's a safe bet that José Chavero will vote in today's election. Chavero, 18, was virtually dragged from his bed on a recent Sunday by his father, who took him to register to vote at a booth at the Escondido swap meet....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 8:02am PST
Editors, reporters and producers from national ethnic media discuss the ethnic vote in tomorrow's mid-term elections. "Headlines From The Ethnic Media," produced and anchored by Odette Alcazaren-Keeley, airs each week on New America Media's "Upfront" radio program on 91.7 FM-KALW in San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 8:01am PST
Commentator and essayist Richard Rodriguez spoke with NAM editor Sandip Roy about the immigration landscape, the mid-term elections, and the Secure Fence Act that promises 700 miles of fencing along the U.S. Mexico border. Rodriguez is an essayist and author of, most recently, "Brown: The Last Discovery of America" (Viking, 2003), is working on a book about religion. Roy is host of New America Media radio show, Up Front....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 8:01am PST
The solution to the problem cannot be curfews and tear gas.. Profit and power are set above social peace. Who is really responsible when the villa surrounded by barbed wire is charred one morning?...
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 4:12am PST
I-List Events & Actions...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 11:28pm PST
I think it would be a good idea for folks to call ICE Director Julie Myers at 202-514-2648 and ask why she released the report three months early, right before the elections....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 10:23pm PST
No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 4:23am PST