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| Protesters block street after acquittal. Photo: Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star |
Border Patrol agent found not guilty of murder in Mexican
teen's 2012 death
Almost six years after José Antonio Elena Rodríguez died
in a cross-border shooting, activists condemn US jury’s ‘inconceivable’ finding
By Rory Carroll, The Guardian
April 24, 2018
José Antonio Elena Rodríguez was on Calle Internacional,
four blocks from his home in Nogales, when 16 shots punctured the night. Ten
bullets struck him: eight in the back, two in the head. He died where he fell.
The 16-year-old was not a victim of street crime. All the
shots came from the United States, from the gun of a Border Patrol agent aiming
through the fence which separates Arizona from Mexico.[...]
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How the Border Patrol Faked Statistics Showing a 73 Percent
Rise in Assaults Against Agents
By Debbie Nathan, The Intercept
April 23, 2018
LAST NOVEMBER, REPORTS that a pair of U.S. Border Patrol
agents had been attacked with rocks at a desolate spot in West Texas made news
around the country. The agents were found injured and unconscious at the bottom
of a culvert off Interstate 10. Agent Rogelio Martinez soon died from his
injuries. Early reports in right-wing media outlets such as Breitbart suggested
that the perpetrators were undocumented immigrants, and President Donald Trump
quickly embraced the narrative to bolster his campaign for a border wall.
To people familiar with the harsh terrain and the habits of
undocumented border crossers, however, the news made little sense. Why would
immigrants seeking entry to the U.S. hang out in the middle of nowhere, miles
from the border, waiting to randomly attack law enforcement officers?[…]
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Criminal Conviction Rates in Texas in 2016
By Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute Blog
April 23, 2018
Cato published my recent Immigration Research and Policy
Brief that relied on Texas state criminal data to compare the conviction rates
of native-born Americans, legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants. That Texas
state data was of such high quality that I was even able to compare conviction
rates by the type of crime. The result was that in 2015 the criminal conviction
and arrest rates for illegal immigrants were below that of native-born
Americans for virtually all crimes including homicide, sexual assault, and
larceny. This is just further evidence that illegal immigrants are less
crime-prone than native-born Americans.[…]
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Deportations Under ICE’s Secure Communities Program
The top 10 offense categories where Secure Communities
removals grew the fastest since President Trump assumed office were generally
misdemeanors or petty offenses.
By Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)
April 25, 2018
Immediately upon assuming office, President Trump issued an
Executive Order terminating what was known as the Priority Enforcement Program
(PEP) and "reinstat[ing] the immigration [enforcement] program known as
'Secure Communities.'" This program is widely portrayed as the cornerstone
of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts for stepped up deportations.
Recently released ICE removal-by-removal records from Secure
Communities—current through October 2017—provide a portrait of deportations of
immigrants from each state and county in the nation by the Trump
Administration. This report examines first how the level of Secure Communities
deportations has changed under the new administration, and then turns to what
types of crimes are now being targeted through this program.[…]
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In Rural Tennessee, a Big ICE Raid Makes Some Conservative
Voters Rethink Trump’s Immigration Agenda
By Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker
April 19, 2018
April 5th began in the usual way at the Southeastern Provision
meat-processing plant, in Bean Station, Tennessee—some workers were breaking
down carcasses on the production line, while others cleaned the floors—until,
around 9 a.m., a helicopter began circling above the plant. Moments later, a
fleet of cars pulled up outside. Agents from the I.R.S., Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ice), and the Tennessee Highway Patrol emerged, and
proceeded to arrest ninety-seven people, most of them originally from Mexico or
Guatemala, for working without legal papers. It was the largest workplace
roundup of immigrants in a decade.[…]
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An ICE Raid Has Turned The Lives of Hundreds of Tennessee
Kids Upside Down
By Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker
April 24, 2018
In the spring of 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
arrested three hundred and eighty-nine workers, most of them Guatemalan, at a
kosher slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. The headines at
the time focussed on the fate of those who’d been arrested, but the
consequences of the raid went much further. For months afterward, parents and
teachers in and around Postville reported that their children had trouble
focussing at school. The kids studied less, and acted out more. Their performance
in class generally declined. “Young kids are developmentally sensitive to
stresses involving family separation, and large-scale raids are an extreme form
of that stress,” Nicole Novak, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa,
told me. Novak led a study that examined the birth certificates of children
born in Iowa in the year after the raid: among the babies born to Hispanic
mothers, there had been a spike in the number who were born abnormally small, a
mark of maternal duress during pregnancy.[…]
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