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Senate Advances Sweeping Immigration Bill The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to limit
debate on election-year immigration legislation, clearing the way for final
passage later this week of a bill that calls for tougher border security as well
as an eventual chance at citizenship for millions of men and women in the
country illegally....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 2:15pm PDT
LATINOPHOBIA on the Senate What the immigration debate is really about
by Ruben Navarrette Jr., San Diego Union-Tribune...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 10:23am PDT
Madres se oponen a la deportacion de sus hijos Olina Calderón y Ana Corea celebraron el día de las madres luchando por sus hijos, quienes podrían ser deportados por el Servicio de Inmigración de los Estados Unidos. A Olina el gobierno pretende arrancar de su lado a Gerson, 20, y Oscar, 17, un par de jóvenes espigados quienes se han adaptado sin complicaciones en Oakland, donde vislumbran un mejor futuro que en su natal y pobre Honduras. Ámbos muchachos fueron detenidos por la patrulla fronteriza, en el desierto de Arizona, junto con otros...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 6:30am PDT
Mothers confront sons' deportation Olina Calderón and Ana Corea celebrated Mother’s Day fighting for their children, who face deportation by the Immigration Service. Calderón says the U.S. government intends to deport her two sons, Gerson, 20 and Oscar, 17, to Central America. The two have grown-up, trouble free in Oakland, where they have carved out a better future than they could have in their native and impoverished country of Honduras, says Calderón....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 6:28am PDT
U.S. Troops Heading to Southern Border Not About Immigration The push to deploy National Guards troops to our southern border with Mexico has nothing to do with current immigration issues, but plenty to do with the Bush administration’s failure to effectively maintain U.S. influence in Latin America....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 8:53pm PDT
English-Only Was a Bane in My Immigrant Family Long before the Senate adopted a measure that would make English the national language of the United States, Pueng Vongs' immigrant parents imposed an "English Only" rule within her family. Vongs, an editor with New America Media, says that instead of helping, speaking English exclusively deprived her family of intimacy....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 8:53pm PDT
Una Cárcel de Barras y Estrellas Crispín plantea así, literariamente, como relato periodístico, la interacción de los muchísimos componentes del fenómeno de la emigración y la existencia, azarosa y desarraigada, de los connacionales en el mundo enajenante --de alienación-- de los gringos, el cual es una prisión. De allí el título de la novela: Una cárcel de barras y estrellas....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 6:58pm PDT
LA's South Central Farm's Call for Action LA's South Central Farm is asking for people to come to the 14 acre community garden (41st/Alameda) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 12:16pm PDT
Who's Illegal? Shooting to Kill on the Border On the afternoon of May 18, 22 year-old Oscar Abraham Garcia-Barrios was shot and killed at close range by U.S. Border Patrol and Customs agents. Garcia-Barrios was just 50 feet north of the border crossing from San Diego to Tijuana. He and a teenage passenger were transporting four undocumented immigrants-back to Mexico....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 10:09am PDT
Workers Hoping to Secure Minimum Wage Enforcement In 2003, workers across San Francisco scored a huge victory when voters approved Proposition L, the Minimum Wage Ordinance. The measure raised the local minimum wage to $8.50, indexed it to inflation, and put the city on the map as having the strongest minimum wage law in the country. However, since its passage, a crucial element to the ordinance revealed itself to be missing * no on was enforcing the ordinance, leaving many immigrants and other vulnerable workers unable to reap its benefits....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:42am PDT
English-Only Laws Don't Work, and Bush Knows It The president, who enthusiastically backed bilingual education as governor of Texas, should resist English-only moves by Congress. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an associate editor at New America Media and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black" (Middle Passage Press). TheHutchinsonReport blog is now at www.earlofarihutchinson.com....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:25am PDT
Update on Senate Debate and Action Alert can you tell that i got on another list?...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 12:22am PDT
Bay Area Minutemen Chapter May Form A group that wants to crack down on undocumented workers hopes to launch a Bay Area chapter of the Minutemen on Monday night in Fremont....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 12:17am PDT
5/24: NNIRR/AFSC Press Conference What: "Immigrant Communities Nationwide say NO to Compromise Bill
-Call for Fair and Just
Legalization with Rights"
When: Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 1:00 to 2:00 pm EDT...
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 9:41pm PDT
Newcomers should be citizens, not guests It was a soothing color to see after so many stark shades of black and white. The president, who has long boasted that he doesn't see a lot of nuance, dressed up his speech on immigration in muted tones of gray....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 6:51pm PDT
INB 5/21/06: More Raids as Senate Acts on Bill 1. Raids Protested in Detroit
2. LA Water & Power Raided
3. 34 Arrested in Western NY
4. Construction Raids Continue
5. Senate Moves on Immigration Bill...
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 5:22pm PDT
Revealed: 'sex-for-asylum' scandal at immigration HQ in UK A 'sex-for-asylum' scandal at the UK's largest immigration processing centre has been uncovered by an Observer investigation, piling more pressure on a government already reeling from a series of Home Office bungles....
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2006 1:03pm PDT
Immigration Setback Blacks, Poor Whites The increasing number of immigrants entering the U.S. has been sanction by Washington D.C. to satisfy the growing demand from corporate America for cheap labor; and the failure of U.S. policy has been a setback for all Americans on both sides of the border....
Posted: Sat, May 20, 2006 6:27pm PDT
Language Bill Divides Americans LOS ANGELES, May20 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – A US Senate bill making English the United States' national language has divided the Americans, with many seeing the move as adding more burdens on millions of immigrants in the country....
Posted: Sat, May 20, 2006 9:36am PDT
MASS STUDENT PROTEST AGAINST RACIST MINUTEMEN SUNDAY MAY 21 @ 10:00AM @ L.A. City Hall (then march through Broadway until we get to Olympic & Broadway)
IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
STUDENTS 4 MIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION...
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 3:54pm PDT
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