There's one way to reorient the dialogue toward rights and away from profits: help workers and organized labor understand that the zero-sum game of “competition” for the most degrading jobs keeps the economically disenfranchised divided along false lines of “legal” versus “illegal.”
By Michelle Chen, In These Times
December 16, 2011
It’s not often that human rights and business profits line up on the same side of a political debate, but Alabama is a special place. The Cotton State was not only ground zero for some of the worst abuses under Jim Crow; it was also the flashpoint for early struggles that fused economic empowerment with civil rights, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Today, Alabama is once again a focal point for racial and class struggles, ignited by an anti-immigrant law that tests our definitions of economic citizenship in a world of fluid borders. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12438/with_anti-immigrant_law_alabama_is_again_ground_zero_for_civil_rights/
Read the AFL-CIO report, "Crisis in Alabama: Investigating the Devastating Effects of HB 56":
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/enespanol/upload/alabama.pdf
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The Public’s View of Immigration
Americans Are Talking but Why Aren't Candidates Listening?
By Philip E. Wolgin, Angela Maria Kelley, Center for American Progress
December 15, 2011
Immigration became an increasingly polarized issue over the last few years. Now, loud voices on all sides shout each other down and crowd out any discussion of real solutions. Smears of “amnesty” have tarred numerous politicians, and the idea of dealing sensibly with the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States appears to be anathema for many on the right. The recent Republican presidential debates only confirm how much immigration is a hot-button issue.
But how do ordinary Americans feel about immigration? Five recent polls, run by organizations from across the political spectrum—from Fox News to Latino Decisions—unequivocally illustrate that the vast majority of Americans support smart solutions to immigration reform and reject mass deportation. They support a pathway to citizenship for people who are part of our communities, learn English, pay back taxes, and so forth, and they reject tearing these families apart. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/12/immigration_polling.html
By Philip E. Wolgin, Angela Maria Kelley, Center for American Progress
December 15, 2011
Immigration became an increasingly polarized issue over the last few years. Now, loud voices on all sides shout each other down and crowd out any discussion of real solutions. Smears of “amnesty” have tarred numerous politicians, and the idea of dealing sensibly with the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States appears to be anathema for many on the right. The recent Republican presidential debates only confirm how much immigration is a hot-button issue.
But how do ordinary Americans feel about immigration? Five recent polls, run by organizations from across the political spectrum—from Fox News to Latino Decisions—unequivocally illustrate that the vast majority of Americans support smart solutions to immigration reform and reject mass deportation. They support a pathway to citizenship for people who are part of our communities, learn English, pay back taxes, and so forth, and they reject tearing these families apart. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/12/immigration_polling.html
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Groups Protest Citizen Detentions
By Kent Paterson, Frontera NorteSur (via Grassroots Press)
December 19, 2011
Pro-immigrant and civil liberties groups are stepping up the pressure against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities program.
Designed to remove immigrant lawbreakers from the United States, Secure Communities enlists local law enforcement agencies in a cooperative relationship with ICE in order to identify, hold and deport foreign nationals. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2011/12/19/groups-protest-citizen-detentions/
December 19, 2011
Pro-immigrant and civil liberties groups are stepping up the pressure against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities program.
Designed to remove immigrant lawbreakers from the United States, Secure Communities enlists local law enforcement agencies in a cooperative relationship with ICE in order to identify, hold and deport foreign nationals. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2011/12/19/groups-protest-citizen-detentions/
Monday, December 26, 2011
Border Patrol Says Giving a Ride to an Illegal Immigrant Is a Crime
By Nina Shapiro, Seattle Times
December 15, 2011
Undeterred by questions about hyper-aggressive tactics and possible over-funding, the Border Patrol has turned up the heat on the Olympic Peninsula, according to the Forks Human Rights Group. Now, if you give an illegal immigrant a ride in your car, you're at risk for being detained--even if you yourself are legal.
Yesterday, the Forks Human Rights Group, a group of residents that has been documenting the Border Patrol's intense activity in the city made famous by Twilight, sent a letter to Patty Murray and other Congress members calling for an investigation of "increasing questionable and illegal behavior" by the BP's Port Angeles office. [...]
Read the full article:
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/12/border_patrol_says_having_an_i.php
December 15, 2011
Undeterred by questions about hyper-aggressive tactics and possible over-funding, the Border Patrol has turned up the heat on the Olympic Peninsula, according to the Forks Human Rights Group. Now, if you give an illegal immigrant a ride in your car, you're at risk for being detained--even if you yourself are legal.
Yesterday, the Forks Human Rights Group, a group of residents that has been documenting the Border Patrol's intense activity in the city made famous by Twilight, sent a letter to Patty Murray and other Congress members calling for an investigation of "increasing questionable and illegal behavior" by the BP's Port Angeles office. [...]
Read the full article:
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/12/border_patrol_says_having_an_i.php
Saturday, December 24, 2011
"Anchor Babies" and "Illegals"
Anchor Baby: A Term Redefined as a Slur
By Julia Preston, New York Times
December 8, 2011
What does the term “anchor baby” mean? If you were to look it up in the American Heritage Dictionary, you would find a new definition since last week. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/us/anchor-baby-a-term-redefined-as-a-slur.html?ref=us
"Illegals"
By Bill Keller, New York Times
December 13, 2011
A number of readers have written or tweeted their objection to my use of the word “illegals” as shorthand for “illegal immigrants.” [...]
Read the full article:
http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/llegals/?ref=opinion
By Julia Preston, New York Times
December 8, 2011
What does the term “anchor baby” mean? If you were to look it up in the American Heritage Dictionary, you would find a new definition since last week. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/us/anchor-baby-a-term-redefined-as-a-slur.html?ref=us
"Illegals"
By Bill Keller, New York Times
December 13, 2011
A number of readers have written or tweeted their objection to my use of the word “illegals” as shorthand for “illegal immigrants.” [...]
Read the full article:
http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/llegals/?ref=opinion
Monday, December 19, 2011
Immigrants Pay Taxes, But 68 Fortune 500 Companies Dodge State Taxes
NEW REPORT: 265 Major, Profitable U.S. Corporations’ Tax Avoidance Costs States $42 Billion Over Three Years
“Our report shows these 265 corporations raked in a combined $1.33 trillion in profits in the last three years, and far too many have managed to shelter half or more of their profits from state taxes,” said Matthew Gardner, Executive Director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the report’s co-author. “They’re so busy avoiding taxes, it’s no wonder they’re not creating any new jobs.”
68 of the 265 Fortune 500 companies profiled paid no state corporate income tax in at least one of the last three years and 20 of them averaged a tax rate of zero or less during the 2008-2010 period.
Among the 20 corporations paying zero or less in state corporate income taxes over the three year period are: Utility provider Pepco Holdings (DC); pharmaceutical giant Baxter International (IL); chemical maker DuPont (DE); fast food behemoth Yum Brands (KY); high tech manufacturer Intel (CA).
“Corporate Tax Dodging in the Fifty States, 2008-2010” follows up on “Corporate Taxpayers and Corporate Tax Dodgers, 2008-2010” which was published in November by Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The two groups released their first major study on the federal income taxes that large, profitable American corporations pay on their U.S. pretax profits in 1984.
Full Report Here:
http://www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers50states/CorporateTaxDodgers50StatesReport.pdf
Read Press Release With Key Findings:
http://www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers50states/CorporateTaxDodgers50StatesPR.pdf
“Our report shows these 265 corporations raked in a combined $1.33 trillion in profits in the last three years, and far too many have managed to shelter half or more of their profits from state taxes,” said Matthew Gardner, Executive Director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the report’s co-author. “They’re so busy avoiding taxes, it’s no wonder they’re not creating any new jobs.”
68 of the 265 Fortune 500 companies profiled paid no state corporate income tax in at least one of the last three years and 20 of them averaged a tax rate of zero or less during the 2008-2010 period.
Among the 20 corporations paying zero or less in state corporate income taxes over the three year period are: Utility provider Pepco Holdings (DC); pharmaceutical giant Baxter International (IL); chemical maker DuPont (DE); fast food behemoth Yum Brands (KY); high tech manufacturer Intel (CA).
“Corporate Tax Dodging in the Fifty States, 2008-2010” follows up on “Corporate Taxpayers and Corporate Tax Dodgers, 2008-2010” which was published in November by Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The two groups released their first major study on the federal income taxes that large, profitable American corporations pay on their U.S. pretax profits in 1984.
Full Report Here:
http://www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers50states/CorporateTaxDodgers50StatesReport.pdf
Read Press Release With Key Findings:
http://www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers50states/CorporateTaxDodgers50StatesPR.pdf
Sunday, December 18, 2011
DHS details contract for second try at Southwest virtual fence
By Aliya Sternstein, Nextgov
12/09/2011
The Homeland Security Department has published an expected draft solicitation for bids on a successor to a failed $1 billion virtual border fence.
The proposed work order calls for "nondevelopmental" -- already available from defense or industrial production lines -- towers flanked with cameras designed to tolerate the extreme Arizona weather. The Southwest terrain undermined former contractor Boeing Co.'s previous try at what was then called the Secure Border Initiative network, leading DHS to switch to a more tailored surveillance strategy. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20111209_5650.php
12/09/2011
The Homeland Security Department has published an expected draft solicitation for bids on a successor to a failed $1 billion virtual border fence.
The proposed work order calls for "nondevelopmental" -- already available from defense or industrial production lines -- towers flanked with cameras designed to tolerate the extreme Arizona weather. The Southwest terrain undermined former contractor Boeing Co.'s previous try at what was then called the Secure Border Initiative network, leading DHS to switch to a more tailored surveillance strategy. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20111209_5650.php
NYC, 12/18: #ImmigrantsOccupy March/Los Inmigrantes Ocupan! Manifestacíon y Marcha
Sunday, December 18, 2011
1:30pm until 5:00pm
Foley Sq to Zuccotti Park
Train: Chambers J/Z Brooklyn Bridge 4/5/6
More info: 646 397 4373
Immigrants are part of the 99% and on December 18th we will march with the Occupy Wall Street movement to demand immigrant justice including putting an end to wage theft, and stopping detentions and deportations of our beloved community members. As the Occupy Wall Street movement highlights corporate profiteering we would like to shed light on those that profit off our labor, exploit workers and refuse to pay dignified wages. We also march against the corporations who support racist anti-immigrant legislation that allows them to make billions of dollars by detaining immigrants in private detention centers and deporting nearly 400,000 people per year.
As the occupy movement goes global we also recognize the destructive role that these corporations play in exploiting resources and labor in our home countries which forces millions to migrate. December 18th is the International Day of Migrants and we stand in solidarity with those world wide who are proclaiming Immigrant Rights as Human Rights.
Share and join FB event
(march) http://www.facebook.com/events/240820965995020/
ImmigrantsOccupyNYC on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ImmigrantsOccupyNYC/273614659355676
ImmigrantsOWS on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ImmigrantsOWS
Our NYCGA page: http://www.nycga.net/groups/immigrant-worker-justice
Download Flier: http://bit.ly/rwyv61
This march is being organized by the Immigrant Worker Justice Working Group of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. We bring the voices and struggles of New York City s immigrant workers members of the 99% to Occupy Wall Street. In solidarity with OWS and the immigration and labor movements, we lift up the particular organizing campaigns and concerns of immigrant workers. We believe that all labor should be honored and that all workers, regardless of immigration status, deserve equal rights and dignity. We recognize globalized capital in the form of financial institutions, multinational corporations, and neoliberal state economic policies as the impetus for economic migration to the United States, and deplore the fact that banks and corporations, supported by the government, continue to profit from immigrant detention and deportation. The leadership and participation of immigrant workers is necessary for any discussion of social, economic, and environmental justice.
Los Inmigrantes Ocupan! Manifestacíon y Marcha
Los inmigrantes son parte del 99% y el 18 de Diciembre marcharemos junto al movimiento Occupy Wall Street para exigir justicia para el inmigrante. Mientras el movimiento de Occupy Wall Street destaca las excesivas ganancias corporativas, nosotros quisiéramos enfatizar sobre aquellos que se enriquecen por medio del trabajo de los inmigrantes, explotan a los trabajadores y rehúsan pagar salarios dignos. También marcharemos en contra de las corporaciones que apoyan la legislación anti-inmigrante generando billones de dólares recluyendo a inmigrantes en centros de detención privados y deportando a aproximadamente 400,000 personas al año. Queremos eliminar el robo de salarios y, frenar las detenciones y deportaciones de los apreciados miembros de nuestra comunidad.
Mientras Occupy Wall Street se hace global, reconocemos el rol destructivo que éstas corporaciones juegan en la explotación de los recursos y la mano de obra en nuestros países de origen, lo cual obliga a millones a migrar.
El 18 de diciembre es el Día Internacional del Migrante y nos hacemos solidarios con aquellos que a nivel mundial proclaman los Derechos del inmigrante y los Derechos Humanos.
Marcha con Permiso:
Domingo, 18 de Deciembre, 2011
1:30pm - 5:00pm
Foley Sq hacia Zuccotti Park
Metro Chambers J/Z Brooklyn Bridge 4/5/6
Mas info: 646 397 4373
El evento en Facebook:
(marcha) http://www.facebook.com/events/240820965995020/
ImmigrantsOccupyNYC en facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ImmigrantsOccupyNYC/273614659355676
ImmigrantsOWS en twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ImmigrantsOWS
la pagina de nuestro grupo en el sitio de la asamblea general de Wall Street : http://www.nycga.net/groups/immigrant-worker-justice
Descarga el Volante: http://bit.ly/rwyv61
Esta marcha esta siendo organizada por el Immigrant Justice Working Group del movimiento Occupy Wall Street. Traemos las voces y las luchas de los trabajadores inmigrantes de la ciudad de Nueva York- miembros del 99%- a Occupy Wall Street. En solidaridad con OWS, los movimientos de inmigración y los movimientos obreros, elevamos esta campaña con las preocupaciones de los trabajadores inmigrantes. Creemos que toda mano de obra debe ser reconocida y que todos los trabajadores, independientemente de su estatus como inmigrantes, merecen igualdad de derechos y dignidad. Reconocemos el capital global-en la forma de instituciones financieras, corporaciones multinacionales, y el estado neoliberal de las políticas económicas- como el ímpetu de la migración económica a los Estados Unidos, y lamentamos el hecho de que los bancos y las corporaciones, apoyadas por el gobierno, sigan lucrándose por medio de detenciones y deportaciones. El liderazgo y la participación de los trabajadores inmigrantes es necesaria para cualquier discusión sobre la justica social, económica y ambiental.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Joe Arpaio's Latest Victim Rushed to Hospital
By Stephen Lemons, Phoenix New Times
December 17, 2011
Following on the heels of a report by the U.S. Department of Justice condemning the MCSO [Maricopa County Sheriff's Office] for engaging in "discriminatory policing" and blasting its treatment of Latinos in and out of its jails, an incident involving a prisoner at [Sheriff Joe] Arpaio's Fourth Avenue Jail may end up offering more proof of the report's findings.
Rumors of the details of the incident have been bouncing around Facebook since yesterday, with claims by Scottsdale Police Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, Arpaio's only announced foe in the 2012 election, that "a Latino inmate at 4th Avenue Jail is brain dead due to excessive force by detention officers." [...]
Read the full article:
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2011/12/joe_arpaios_latest_victim_rush.php
For more, read:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Office Commits Worst Racial Profiling in U.S. History, Concludes DOJ Investigation
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/12/sheriff_arpaio_oversaw_worst_r.php
December 17, 2011
Following on the heels of a report by the U.S. Department of Justice condemning the MCSO [Maricopa County Sheriff's Office] for engaging in "discriminatory policing" and blasting its treatment of Latinos in and out of its jails, an incident involving a prisoner at [Sheriff Joe] Arpaio's Fourth Avenue Jail may end up offering more proof of the report's findings.
Rumors of the details of the incident have been bouncing around Facebook since yesterday, with claims by Scottsdale Police Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, Arpaio's only announced foe in the 2012 election, that "a Latino inmate at 4th Avenue Jail is brain dead due to excessive force by detention officers." [...]
Read the full article:
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2011/12/joe_arpaios_latest_victim_rush.php
For more, read:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Office Commits Worst Racial Profiling in U.S. History, Concludes DOJ Investigation
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/12/sheriff_arpaio_oversaw_worst_r.php
Friday, December 16, 2011
Who Killed Joaquin Luna?
Joseph Nevins, Border Wars, NACLA
November 30, 2011
Last Friday Joaquin Luna put on a white shirt and black tie—the same ones he wore every Sunday at the church he attended. The eighteen-year-old high school senior then kissed family members, went into the bathroom of his mother’s house in south Texas, and shot and killed himself.
According to his family, Joaquin was suffering from emotional and psychological distress related to his unauthorized immigrant status. Since the age of six months, when his family crossed the U.S.-Mexico boundary and settled in Mission, Texas, just on the other side of the international divide from Reynosa, Joaquin had lived in the United States as an “illegal.” Given his unauthorized status, he had become increasingly anxious as his graduation approached, and his limited life prospects became apparent. [...]
Read the full article:
https://nacla.org/blog/2011/11/30/who-killed-joaquin-luna
November 30, 2011
Last Friday Joaquin Luna put on a white shirt and black tie—the same ones he wore every Sunday at the church he attended. The eighteen-year-old high school senior then kissed family members, went into the bathroom of his mother’s house in south Texas, and shot and killed himself.
According to his family, Joaquin was suffering from emotional and psychological distress related to his unauthorized immigrant status. Since the age of six months, when his family crossed the U.S.-Mexico boundary and settled in Mission, Texas, just on the other side of the international divide from Reynosa, Joaquin had lived in the United States as an “illegal.” Given his unauthorized status, he had become increasingly anxious as his graduation approached, and his limited life prospects became apparent. [...]
Read the full article:
https://nacla.org/blog/2011/11/30/who-killed-joaquin-luna
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Unions and Immigrants Join Occupy Movements
By David Bacon, Truthout
December 6, 2011
Oakland, California - When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp "Planton Seattle," camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set of tactics used for decades by social movements in Mexico, Central America and the Philippines. And when immigrant janitors marched down to the detention center in San Diego and called their effort Occupy ICE (the initials of the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency responsible for mass deportations),people from countries with that planton encampment tradition were connecting it to the Occupy movement here. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.truth-out.org/unions-and-immigrants-join-occupy-movements/1323183717
December 6, 2011
Oakland, California - When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp "Planton Seattle," camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set of tactics used for decades by social movements in Mexico, Central America and the Philippines. And when immigrant janitors marched down to the detention center in San Diego and called their effort Occupy ICE (the initials of the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency responsible for mass deportations),people from countries with that planton encampment tradition were connecting it to the Occupy movement here. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.truth-out.org/unions-and-immigrants-join-occupy-movements/1323183717
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Perceptions of Migration Clash With Reality, Report Finds
By Caroline Brothers, New York Times
December 5, 2011
PARIS — Perceptions of the impact of migration in some countries are so distorted that their citizens estimate that there are as many as three times the number of immigrants living there than is actually the case, a global migration body says in a report being released on Tuesday.
In “World Migration Report for 2011,” the International Organization for Migration, a 132-member intergovernmental body based in Geneva, warns that misinformation about migration fans “harmful stereotypes, discrimination and xenophobia.” [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/world/europe/perceptions-of-migration-clash-with-reality-report-finds.html?ref=world
Read the report:
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=37&products_id=752&zenid=86e083135fcd6aae6bd3d334d4cb4e5d
December 5, 2011
PARIS — Perceptions of the impact of migration in some countries are so distorted that their citizens estimate that there are as many as three times the number of immigrants living there than is actually the case, a global migration body says in a report being released on Tuesday.
In “World Migration Report for 2011,” the International Organization for Migration, a 132-member intergovernmental body based in Geneva, warns that misinformation about migration fans “harmful stereotypes, discrimination and xenophobia.” [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/world/europe/perceptions-of-migration-clash-with-reality-report-finds.html?ref=world
Read the report:
http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=37&products_id=752&zenid=86e083135fcd6aae6bd3d334d4cb4e5d
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Arrests of illegal migrants on U.S.-Mexico border plummet
By Nick Miroff and William Booth, Washington Post
December 3, 2011
MEXICALI, Mexico — Arrests of illegal migrants trying to cross the southern U.S. border have plummeted to levels not seen since the early 1970s, according to tallies released by the Department of Homeland Security last week, a historic shift that could reshape the debate over immigration reform.
The Border Patrol apprehended 327,577 illegal crossers along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, numbers not seen since Richard Nixon was president, and a precipitous drop from the peak in 2000, when 1.6 million unauthorized migrants were caught. More than 90 percent of the migrants apprehended on the southwest border are Mexican. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/arrests-of-illegal-migrants-on-us-mexico-border-plummet/2011/12/02/gIQA6Op8PO_story.html?tid=pm_pop
December 3, 2011
MEXICALI, Mexico — Arrests of illegal migrants trying to cross the southern U.S. border have plummeted to levels not seen since the early 1970s, according to tallies released by the Department of Homeland Security last week, a historic shift that could reshape the debate over immigration reform.
The Border Patrol apprehended 327,577 illegal crossers along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, numbers not seen since Richard Nixon was president, and a precipitous drop from the peak in 2000, when 1.6 million unauthorized migrants were caught. More than 90 percent of the migrants apprehended on the southwest border are Mexican. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/arrests-of-illegal-migrants-on-us-mexico-border-plummet/2011/12/02/gIQA6Op8PO_story.html?tid=pm_pop
Monday, December 12, 2011
Tell ICE's Southern Office: Respect the Civil Rights of Immigrant Workers!
From Jobs with Justice National jwjnational@jwj.org
December 1, 2011
Ever since SB1070 passed in Arizona, Southern states like Alabama have been quick to pass legislation that take the racial profiling bill to the next levels of hate.
At the same time, the Obama administration has announced that Immigration Enforcement’s regional field
offices now are empowered to use their discretion with who is or is not deported.
That means that ICE’s Southern Field Director in New Orleans, Scott Sutterfield has a decision to make.
Last August, his office coordinated the violent ambush of thirty workers in New Orleans who had gathered to receive their paychecks. Now, the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice and community leaders across the South are demanding Mr. Sutterfield attend a town hall meeting on the state of civil rights in the era of Alabama-style hate.
Jobs with Justice has been working on this fight for a long time as a part of the Turning the Tides movement building, and we want to make sure that Sutterfield won’t stand in the way of their civil rights.
You can support their call with three quick steps
1. Watch the video about their case
2. Sign the petition calling for a town hall meeting
3. Ask five friends to do the same.
If Arizona is the laboratory for these Right-Wing policies, the South has become their testing ground. While the administration talks about making immigration enforcement more precise, its own programs and the recent wave of state laws have been doing the opposite. Within those contradictions, ICE’s regional directors like Sutterfield become the deciding factor.
December 1, 2011
Ever since SB1070 passed in Arizona, Southern states like Alabama have been quick to pass legislation that take the racial profiling bill to the next levels of hate.
At the same time, the Obama administration has announced that Immigration Enforcement’s regional field
offices now are empowered to use their discretion with who is or is not deported.
That means that ICE’s Southern Field Director in New Orleans, Scott Sutterfield has a decision to make.
Last August, his office coordinated the violent ambush of thirty workers in New Orleans who had gathered to receive their paychecks. Now, the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice and community leaders across the South are demanding Mr. Sutterfield attend a town hall meeting on the state of civil rights in the era of Alabama-style hate.
Jobs with Justice has been working on this fight for a long time as a part of the Turning the Tides movement building, and we want to make sure that Sutterfield won’t stand in the way of their civil rights.
You can support their call with three quick steps
1. Watch the video about their case
2. Sign the petition calling for a town hall meeting
3. Ask five friends to do the same.
If Arizona is the laboratory for these Right-Wing policies, the South has become their testing ground. While the administration talks about making immigration enforcement more precise, its own programs and the recent wave of state laws have been doing the opposite. Within those contradictions, ICE’s regional directors like Sutterfield become the deciding factor.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Crisis Clobbers Mexican Immigrants
Salem-News.com from Frontera NorteSur
November 28, 2011
(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The last four years have been a rough road for Mexican immigrants in the US. Anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, Alabama and other states have disrupted lives and sent people packing, while record deportations have uprooted longtime residents and divided families. If public policy shifts weren't enough, economic tremors have clobbered the Mexican immigrant community. That's according to a report by BBVA Research, an arm of the BBVA bank in Mexico.
In a new study, BBVA Research reveals that 900,000 Mexican immigrants residing in the US have fallen into poverty since the global economic crisis struck in 2008. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november282011/immigrant-crisis.php
November 28, 2011
(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The last four years have been a rough road for Mexican immigrants in the US. Anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, Alabama and other states have disrupted lives and sent people packing, while record deportations have uprooted longtime residents and divided families. If public policy shifts weren't enough, economic tremors have clobbered the Mexican immigrant community. That's according to a report by BBVA Research, an arm of the BBVA bank in Mexico.
In a new study, BBVA Research reveals that 900,000 Mexican immigrants residing in the US have fallen into poverty since the global economic crisis struck in 2008. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november282011/immigrant-crisis.php
Saturday, December 10, 2011
In Haiti, U.S. deportees face illegal detentions and grave health risks
By Jacob Kushner, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
November 13, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United States has deported more than 250 Haitians since January knowing that one in two will be jailed without charges in facilities so filthy they pose life-threatening health risks.
An investigation by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting found that the Obama administration has not followed its own policy of seeking alternatives to deportation when there are serious medical and humanitarian concerns. One deportee who arrived in April suffered from asthma, hypertension, diabetes, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and head trauma, among other ailments. That same month, the U.S. government deported a mentally ill immigrant whose psychiatric medications were lost by Haitian authorities after his first day in jail. [...]
Read the full article:
http://fcir.org/2011/11/13/u-s-deportees-to-haiti-jailed-without-cause-face-severe-health-risks/
November 13, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United States has deported more than 250 Haitians since January knowing that one in two will be jailed without charges in facilities so filthy they pose life-threatening health risks.
An investigation by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting found that the Obama administration has not followed its own policy of seeking alternatives to deportation when there are serious medical and humanitarian concerns. One deportee who arrived in April suffered from asthma, hypertension, diabetes, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and head trauma, among other ailments. That same month, the U.S. government deported a mentally ill immigrant whose psychiatric medications were lost by Haitian authorities after his first day in jail. [...]
Read the full article:
http://fcir.org/2011/11/13/u-s-deportees-to-haiti-jailed-without-cause-face-severe-health-risks/
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