By Doug Porter, San Diego Free Press
June 30, 2015
A newly released report from the Center for a New Community (CNC) says there is a systemic pattern of behind-the-scenes collusion between officials of unions associated with the Border Patrol and prominent anti-immigrant hate groups.
Last year’s protests in Murrieta, California are cited in “Blurring Borders: Collusion between Anti-Immigrant Groups and Immigration Enforcement Agents” as an example of Border Patrol agents coordinating with anti-immigrant forces. On July 1st, 2014, anti-immigrant activists used civil disobedience to block federal buses carrying refugee women and children to a Border Patrol processing center.[...]
Read the full article:
http://sandiegofreepress.org/2015/06/report-border-patrol-union-officials-working-with-hate-groups/
Read the report:
http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Blurring-Borders-FINAL.pdf
Friday, July 10, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Donald Trump backlash: 'I love Mexico' but promises border wall if elected
By Martin Pengelly, The Guardian
June 28, 2015
As the aftershocks of his campaign launch attack on Mexico and Mexicans rumbled on, Donald Trump used an interview on Sunday to say “I love Mexico”.
The business mogul-turned-White House hopeful subsequently said, however, that once in office he would if necessary do “something very severe” to make Mexico pay for his promised border wall between the two countries.
Launching his bid for the Republican nomination in 2016 at his business HQ in New York, Trump was discussing his views on immigration when he said: “[Mexico is] sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists.”
Responses included official condemnation, the withdrawal by TV network Univision from Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, a golf course ban and the creation in Mexico of a Donald Trum-campaign. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/28/donald-trump-mexico-immigration-presidential-campaign
June 28, 2015
As the aftershocks of his campaign launch attack on Mexico and Mexicans rumbled on, Donald Trump used an interview on Sunday to say “I love Mexico”.
The business mogul-turned-White House hopeful subsequently said, however, that once in office he would if necessary do “something very severe” to make Mexico pay for his promised border wall between the two countries.
Launching his bid for the Republican nomination in 2016 at his business HQ in New York, Trump was discussing his views on immigration when he said: “[Mexico is] sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists.”
Responses included official condemnation, the withdrawal by TV network Univision from Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, a golf course ban and the creation in Mexico of a Donald Trum-campaign. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/28/donald-trump-mexico-immigration-presidential-campaign
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Number of Homeless Latino Immigrants Grows
LaChapel said that since 2010, the number of homeless immigrants in search of a piece of bread and some hot soup has increased rapidly in his church.
By Zaira Cortés, El Diario/La Prensa
June 29, 2015
Translated from Spanish by Marianna Breytman for Voices of NY
His tattered clothes scream for help through all of their open seams, but their cries don’t get the pity of passersby hurrying along. He doesn’t remember his name, but they call him Pepe Sopo in the Bronx. He introduces himself as a hopeless Mexican without a ceiling above his head. “I am tired of this bloody life,” he whispers, hiding a toothless smile with his calloused hand. “The only thing I have is the street.”
Pepe says that he is in his 40s, lacking the privilege of having a memory. He may have been born in 1972, but he doesn’t have any identity documentation that confirms his age. He looks older, with his skeletal body, consumed by hunger and addiction, and the deep wrinkles in his dark skin.
“It’s quite strange that you’re interested in when I was born because no one cares that I’m going to die,” he said. “We die without anyone praying to our sweet, little God for our souls.”[...]
Read the full article in English:
http://www.voicesofny.org/2015/06/number-of-homeless-latino-immigrants-grows/
Read the original in Spanish:
http://www.eldiariony.com/aumentan-inmigrantes-latinos-en-desamparo
By Zaira Cortés, El Diario/La Prensa
June 29, 2015
Translated from Spanish by Marianna Breytman for Voices of NY
His tattered clothes scream for help through all of their open seams, but their cries don’t get the pity of passersby hurrying along. He doesn’t remember his name, but they call him Pepe Sopo in the Bronx. He introduces himself as a hopeless Mexican without a ceiling above his head. “I am tired of this bloody life,” he whispers, hiding a toothless smile with his calloused hand. “The only thing I have is the street.”
Pepe says that he is in his 40s, lacking the privilege of having a memory. He may have been born in 1972, but he doesn’t have any identity documentation that confirms his age. He looks older, with his skeletal body, consumed by hunger and addiction, and the deep wrinkles in his dark skin.
“It’s quite strange that you’re interested in when I was born because no one cares that I’m going to die,” he said. “We die without anyone praying to our sweet, little God for our souls.”[...]
Read the full article in English:
http://www.voicesofny.org/2015/06/number-of-homeless-latino-immigrants-grows/
Read the original in Spanish:
http://www.eldiariony.com/aumentan-inmigrantes-latinos-en-desamparo
Saturday, July 4, 2015
The True Story of a Texas Prison Riot
And how our rush to lock up immigrants has overwhelmed the federal prison system.
By Seth Freed Wessler, The Nation
June 23, 2015
The Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas, is now empty. As of late May, a single security guard sat in a small car in the entrance to the parking lot. It has been like this since prisoners so ransacked the facilities in a February riot, cutting and burning holes in the Kevlar domes that held them, that the Federal Bureau of Prisons declared it “uninhabitable.” The agency moved the inmates to other prisons and declined to renew its contract with the private corrections company that ran the facility. Nearly all of the 400 employees were terminated.
Willacy’s operating company, Management & Training Corp., says the riot was plotted by inmates and was unavoidable; the SWAT team it deployed to control inmates, a measured response to prisoner unrest. This version of the story, which has circulated in the press since the days after the riot, is at best a partial truth, and one that obscures the company’s own aggression. A fuller account of the events at Willacy points to deep problems with the federal government’s management of a soaring population of immigrants it incarcerates for border crimes.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.thenation.com/article/210449/true-story-texas-prison-riot#
By Seth Freed Wessler, The Nation
June 23, 2015
The Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas, is now empty. As of late May, a single security guard sat in a small car in the entrance to the parking lot. It has been like this since prisoners so ransacked the facilities in a February riot, cutting and burning holes in the Kevlar domes that held them, that the Federal Bureau of Prisons declared it “uninhabitable.” The agency moved the inmates to other prisons and declined to renew its contract with the private corrections company that ran the facility. Nearly all of the 400 employees were terminated.
Willacy’s operating company, Management & Training Corp., says the riot was plotted by inmates and was unavoidable; the SWAT team it deployed to control inmates, a measured response to prisoner unrest. This version of the story, which has circulated in the press since the days after the riot, is at best a partial truth, and one that obscures the company’s own aggression. A fuller account of the events at Willacy points to deep problems with the federal government’s management of a soaring population of immigrants it incarcerates for border crimes.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.thenation.com/article/210449/true-story-texas-prison-riot#
Friday, July 3, 2015
Immigrants' Lawsuit Over Post-9/11 Detention Is Revived; Ashcroft and Mueller to be Deposed
By Adam Liptak, New York Times
June 17, 2015
Saying that high-ranking Bush administration officials may have taken part in grave constitutional violations after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal appeals court in New York on Wednesday revived a long-running lawsuit brought by immigrants, most of them Muslim, who said they were subjected to beatings, humiliating searches and other abuses in a Brooklyn detention center.
"The suffering endured by those who were imprisoned merely because they were caught up in the hysteria of the days immediately following 9/11 is not without a remedy," Judges Rosemary S. Pooler and Richard C. Wesley wrote in a joint opinion for a divided three-judge panel of the court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
"Holding individuals in solitary confinement 23 hours a day with regular strip-searches because their perceived faith or race placed them in the group targeted for recruitment by Al Qaeda violated the detainees' constitutional rights," the judges said.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/us/immigrants-suit-over-detention-after-9-11-is-revived.html
June 17, 2015
Saying that high-ranking Bush administration officials may have taken part in grave constitutional violations after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal appeals court in New York on Wednesday revived a long-running lawsuit brought by immigrants, most of them Muslim, who said they were subjected to beatings, humiliating searches and other abuses in a Brooklyn detention center.
"The suffering endured by those who were imprisoned merely because they were caught up in the hysteria of the days immediately following 9/11 is not without a remedy," Judges Rosemary S. Pooler and Richard C. Wesley wrote in a joint opinion for a divided three-judge panel of the court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
"Holding individuals in solitary confinement 23 hours a day with regular strip-searches because their perceived faith or race placed them in the group targeted for recruitment by Al Qaeda violated the detainees' constitutional rights," the judges said.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/us/immigrants-suit-over-detention-after-9-11-is-revived.html
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Agentes de Migra Fuera de Control/Confront Rogue ICE Agents
Agentes de Migra Fuera de Control
Por Elvira Arellano
17 de junio, 2015
(English Version folows below)
Mientras que esperamos para que las cortes federales fallen a favor de las órdenes ejecutivas del presidente Obama, el presidente ha mandado que el departamento de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE) suelte a todas aquellas personas que calificarían para un aplazamiento según aquellas órdenes. El Jefe del Departamento de Seguridad Interna (Homeland Security), Jeh Johnson, ha dicho que esta “acción por discreción” debe llevarse a cabo lo más pronto posible. Es una política beneficiosa y las familias que, si se llega a implementar, podrán quedar unificadas, merecen que se cumpla en forma total y completa.
Las familias lo merecen pero muchas veces no lo están recibiendo. Acompañados por el congresista Luis Gutiérrez, hace poco tuvimos una reunión con los agentes encargados de la oficina de ICE en Chicago. Cuando en caso de ellos se les apela un fallo, estoy segura que van a responder conforme a las órdenes dadas por el presidente Obama. Pero la reacción de los agentes que trabajan para ellos es otro asunto.[...]
Lea el artículo completo:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agentes-de-migra-fuera-control-rev-walter-l-slim-coleman
Confront Rogue ICE Agents
By Elvira Arellano
June 17, 2015
While we wait for the courts to clear President Obama’s executive orders ICE is under instruction from the President to release those who would qualify for deferments under those orders. The head of Homeland Security has said that this “discretionary action” should happen at the earliest stage possible of the process. It is a good policy and the families that will be kept together deserve its full, complete and thorough implementation.
The families deserve it - but often they are not getting it. We recently met with the agents in charge of the Chicago office along with Congressman Gutierrez. When an appeal for a ruling is made to them I am convinced they will follow the guidelines set out by the President. The agents that work for them are a different story.[...]
Read the full article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agentes-de-migra-fuera-control-rev-walter-l-slim-coleman
Por Elvira Arellano
17 de junio, 2015
(English Version folows below)
Mientras que esperamos para que las cortes federales fallen a favor de las órdenes ejecutivas del presidente Obama, el presidente ha mandado que el departamento de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE) suelte a todas aquellas personas que calificarían para un aplazamiento según aquellas órdenes. El Jefe del Departamento de Seguridad Interna (Homeland Security), Jeh Johnson, ha dicho que esta “acción por discreción” debe llevarse a cabo lo más pronto posible. Es una política beneficiosa y las familias que, si se llega a implementar, podrán quedar unificadas, merecen que se cumpla en forma total y completa.
Las familias lo merecen pero muchas veces no lo están recibiendo. Acompañados por el congresista Luis Gutiérrez, hace poco tuvimos una reunión con los agentes encargados de la oficina de ICE en Chicago. Cuando en caso de ellos se les apela un fallo, estoy segura que van a responder conforme a las órdenes dadas por el presidente Obama. Pero la reacción de los agentes que trabajan para ellos es otro asunto.[...]
Lea el artículo completo:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agentes-de-migra-fuera-control-rev-walter-l-slim-coleman
Confront Rogue ICE Agents
By Elvira Arellano
June 17, 2015
While we wait for the courts to clear President Obama’s executive orders ICE is under instruction from the President to release those who would qualify for deferments under those orders. The head of Homeland Security has said that this “discretionary action” should happen at the earliest stage possible of the process. It is a good policy and the families that will be kept together deserve its full, complete and thorough implementation.
The families deserve it - but often they are not getting it. We recently met with the agents in charge of the Chicago office along with Congressman Gutierrez. When an appeal for a ruling is made to them I am convinced they will follow the guidelines set out by the President. The agents that work for them are a different story.[...]
Read the full article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agentes-de-migra-fuera-control-rev-walter-l-slim-coleman
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Suit alleges U.S. violates rights of immigrant detainees
By Emile Schepers, People's World
June 15 2015
An important class action suit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Arizona last week alleging that U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement (CBP) officials have been massively violating the constitutional and human rights of detainees in Border Patrol lockups in the Tucson, Arizona sector of their operations.
The suit, filed by three specific plaintiffs as representative of a class of at least 75 and potentially tens of thousands, was filed by attorneys for the law firm of Morrison and Foerster LLP, the National Immigration Law Center, the American Immigration Council, the American Civil Liberties Council of Arizona, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.[...]
Read the full article:
http://peoplesworld.org/suit-on-violation-of-constitutional-and-human-rights-of-detained-immigrants/
June 15 2015
An important class action suit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Arizona last week alleging that U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement (CBP) officials have been massively violating the constitutional and human rights of detainees in Border Patrol lockups in the Tucson, Arizona sector of their operations.
The suit, filed by three specific plaintiffs as representative of a class of at least 75 and potentially tens of thousands, was filed by attorneys for the law firm of Morrison and Foerster LLP, the National Immigration Law Center, the American Immigration Council, the American Civil Liberties Council of Arizona, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.[...]
Read the full article:
http://peoplesworld.org/suit-on-violation-of-constitutional-and-human-rights-of-detained-immigrants/
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