Por Claudia Torrens, Associated Press
25 de abril de 2013
Las posibilidades de que el activista chileno Víctor Toro sea deportado de Estados Unidos se redujeron considerablemente cuando un juez garantizó el miércoles el avance de su caso de petición de asilo y fijó otra fecha en la corte de inmigración para dentro de un año.
El caso del ex guerrillero, uno de los fundadores del Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) en Chile, ha dado un importante giro en los últimos meses, cuando una junta de apelaciones revocó la decisión de una corte migratoria negándole el asilo en el 2011.[...]
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http://noticias.terra.com/eeuu/eeuu-avanza-caso-de-asilo-de-victor-toro,afb98a2ee314e310VgnCLD2000000dc6eb0aRCRD.html
Monday, April 29, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Trumka Calls on Obama Administration to Cease Deportations of Aspiring Citizens
Luis Santoyo, AFL-CIO Now
April 22, 2013
Sebastian Velasquez saw his family for the last time when they were helping him move into his Georgetown University dorm before the start of his first semester. A few months later, he found out that his father, mother and sister were in deportation proceedings. They were eventually deported to Colombia.
“It was a very difficult period for me because I was adapting to a different environment,” recalls Velasquez, a 25-year-old DREAMer who was brought by his family from Colombia nine years ago. “I was shipping my family’s things to Colombia. And I was sending money orders to the [Krome] Detention Center [where my family was awaiting deportation].” [...]
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http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Trumka-Calls-on-Obama-Administration-to-Cease-Deportations-of-Aspiring-Citizens
April 22, 2013
Sebastian Velasquez saw his family for the last time when they were helping him move into his Georgetown University dorm before the start of his first semester. A few months later, he found out that his father, mother and sister were in deportation proceedings. They were eventually deported to Colombia.
“It was a very difficult period for me because I was adapting to a different environment,” recalls Velasquez, a 25-year-old DREAMer who was brought by his family from Colombia nine years ago. “I was shipping my family’s things to Colombia. And I was sending money orders to the [Krome] Detention Center [where my family was awaiting deportation].” [...]
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http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Trumka-Calls-on-Obama-Administration-to-Cease-Deportations-of-Aspiring-Citizens
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Day Laborers Skeptical of ‘Doesn’t Solve Anything’ Reform
By Juan Matossian, El Diario La Prensa
April 22, 2013
Translated by Emily Leavitt from Spanish
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http://www.eldiariony.com/plan-migratorio-reforma-decepciona-jornaleros-NY-requisitos-indocumentados
Day laborers are complaining that if the immigration bill ends up requiring people to show proof of continuos work history they will end up being excluded. “Everyone knows that they pay us in cash,” said one. (Photo from Flickr, Creative Commons License)
Day laborers and domestic workers have responded to the proposed bill for immigration reform with skepticism and disappointment; they don’t believe it will help improve their situation if it gets passed.
“It doesn’t solve anything for us and it seems like they want to exclude us,” complained Roberto Menses, who has been working as a day laborer in Queens since 1991. “A work permit doesn’t guarantee us more work or even any benefits, and the requirements for obtaining residency or citizenship appear impossible for a day laborer to fulfill.” [...]
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http://voicesofny.org/2013/04/day-laborers-disappointed-by-immigration-plan-that-doesnt-solve-anything/
April 22, 2013
Translated by Emily Leavitt from Spanish
Go to original story:
http://www.eldiariony.com/plan-migratorio-reforma-decepciona-jornaleros-NY-requisitos-indocumentados
Day laborers are complaining that if the immigration bill ends up requiring people to show proof of continuos work history they will end up being excluded. “Everyone knows that they pay us in cash,” said one. (Photo from Flickr, Creative Commons License)
Day laborers and domestic workers have responded to the proposed bill for immigration reform with skepticism and disappointment; they don’t believe it will help improve their situation if it gets passed.
“It doesn’t solve anything for us and it seems like they want to exclude us,” complained Roberto Menses, who has been working as a day laborer in Queens since 1991. “A work permit doesn’t guarantee us more work or even any benefits, and the requirements for obtaining residency or citizenship appear impossible for a day laborer to fulfill.” [...]
Read the full article:
http://voicesofny.org/2013/04/day-laborers-disappointed-by-immigration-plan-that-doesnt-solve-anything/
Friday, April 26, 2013
The Families Migrants Left Behind
By Frontera NorteSur
April 19, 2013
In Mexico and Central America, thousands and thousands of families are largely forgotten in the immigration debate. They are the survivors of migrants who died in the United States or perished while attempting to cross the border. Deprived of their breadwinners, the survivors often engage in Herculean efforts to move ahead in life.
In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, Guadalupe “Lupita” Velazquez and her three young children are among those eking out an existence in the absence of a loved one who died during a border crossing.
Velazquez was left a widow after her husband Irineo Barrita, 29, was killed together with eight other Mexican nationals-all from Oaxaca-when the driver of the van in which the group was riding attempted to flee the Border Patrol in Palmview, Texas, on April 10, 2012. Six other passengers of the packed vehicle were injured.[...]
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http://fnsnews.nmsu.edu/2013/04/19/the-families-migrants-left-behind/
April 19, 2013
In Mexico and Central America, thousands and thousands of families are largely forgotten in the immigration debate. They are the survivors of migrants who died in the United States or perished while attempting to cross the border. Deprived of their breadwinners, the survivors often engage in Herculean efforts to move ahead in life.
In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, Guadalupe “Lupita” Velazquez and her three young children are among those eking out an existence in the absence of a loved one who died during a border crossing.
Velazquez was left a widow after her husband Irineo Barrita, 29, was killed together with eight other Mexican nationals-all from Oaxaca-when the driver of the van in which the group was riding attempted to flee the Border Patrol in Palmview, Texas, on April 10, 2012. Six other passengers of the packed vehicle were injured.[...]
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http://fnsnews.nmsu.edu/2013/04/19/the-families-migrants-left-behind/
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Demands Rise on Congress to Guarantee Immigrant Rights
By David Bacon, Truthout
April 17, 2013
Across California on April 10, activists demonstrated for immigration reform and articulated a sharply different version from any currently obtaining in the US Congress of what that reform entails.
In San Diego, California, nine activists completed a six-day hunger strike outside the Mission Valley Hilton Hotel on April 10 - the day demonstrations took place across the United States demanding immigration reform. Hunger strikers were protesting the firing of 14 of the hotel's workers, after Evolution Hospitality, the company operating the Hilton franchise, told them that it had used the government's E-Verify database to determine that they didn't have legal immigration status.
"The company says that E-Verify is making them do this, even though many of the workers have been working here for years," said Sara Garcia, a supporter and hunger striker from House of Organized Neighbors, a local community organization. "But they started firing them when the workers were organizing a union." [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15788-demands-rise-on-congress-to-guarantee-immigrant-rights
April 17, 2013
Across California on April 10, activists demonstrated for immigration reform and articulated a sharply different version from any currently obtaining in the US Congress of what that reform entails.
In San Diego, California, nine activists completed a six-day hunger strike outside the Mission Valley Hilton Hotel on April 10 - the day demonstrations took place across the United States demanding immigration reform. Hunger strikers were protesting the firing of 14 of the hotel's workers, after Evolution Hospitality, the company operating the Hilton franchise, told them that it had used the government's E-Verify database to determine that they didn't have legal immigration status.
"The company says that E-Verify is making them do this, even though many of the workers have been working here for years," said Sara Garcia, a supporter and hunger striker from House of Organized Neighbors, a local community organization. "But they started firing them when the workers were organizing a union." [...]
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15788-demands-rise-on-congress-to-guarantee-immigrant-rights
Saturday, April 20, 2013
NIYA Infiltrates Michigan ICE: Calhoun County Jail
Dream Activist
April 15, 2013
Claudia Munoz (A#205-001-963), an organizer with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, is currently detained at the Calhoun County Jail, in Michigan.
In a video message that she shot before her arrest and detention, Claudio states she allowed herself to be caught by Customs and Border Protection in an effort to expose the abuses that happen inside immigrant detention centers. Since Claudia has been detained inside the Calhoun County Jail for the past 10 days, she has witnesses numerous due process violations and abuses conducted by ICE officials:
Due process violations: CBP agents intentionally misinterpreted detainees in order to incriminate them, which is a violation of their due process.
Forcing detainees to agree to voluntary departure: ICE Liaison, Officer J. Jolin, was seen forcing detainees to agree to voluntary departure. Office Jolin told a detainee that “I can bring in 3 deputies and make you sign it!” in order to compel signature. Additionally, a detainee was locked away in a room ‘until he changed his mind.’ Office Jolin also threatened one man with “20-years in prison if you don’t sign.” These reports corroborate past allegations that ICE officials have forced individuals to relinquish their legal rights. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.dreamactivist.org/niya-infiltrates-michigan-ice-calhoun-county-jail/
April 15, 2013
Claudia Munoz (A#205-001-963), an organizer with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, is currently detained at the Calhoun County Jail, in Michigan.
In a video message that she shot before her arrest and detention, Claudio states she allowed herself to be caught by Customs and Border Protection in an effort to expose the abuses that happen inside immigrant detention centers. Since Claudia has been detained inside the Calhoun County Jail for the past 10 days, she has witnesses numerous due process violations and abuses conducted by ICE officials:
Due process violations: CBP agents intentionally misinterpreted detainees in order to incriminate them, which is a violation of their due process.
Forcing detainees to agree to voluntary departure: ICE Liaison, Officer J. Jolin, was seen forcing detainees to agree to voluntary departure. Office Jolin told a detainee that “I can bring in 3 deputies and make you sign it!” in order to compel signature. Additionally, a detainee was locked away in a room ‘until he changed his mind.’ Office Jolin also threatened one man with “20-years in prison if you don’t sign.” These reports corroborate past allegations that ICE officials have forced individuals to relinquish their legal rights. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.dreamactivist.org/niya-infiltrates-michigan-ice-calhoun-county-jail/
Friday, April 19, 2013
The San Diego Nine Walk in the Footsteps of Martin Luther King
Let’s be clear: big business has always been perfectly happy to hire undocumented workers as long as they were easily exploitable and cheap. It’s only when they speak up that it becomes an issue.
By Jim Miller, San Diego Free Press
April 8, 2013
The San Diego Nine picked the perfect week for a hunger strike. They may not have known it, but the ghosts of Memphis were haunting the Mission Valley Hilton. What’s the connection?
Last week was the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was murdered in Memphis where he had gone to support striking sanitation workers. As I noted in my column for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday in January, the real MLK is frequently neglected in favor of a distorted picture of a vanilla saint who just wanted us all to get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Indeed, King was a provocateur who wanted to disturb us about America’s hypocritical racial inequality AND its shameful class divide. King died fighting for the rights of poor workers of color because he thought nothing was a better example of what he wanted the Poor People’s Campaign to be than the sanitation workers’ strike. Their fight was a call not just for legal civil rights for black people, but a cry for economic justice for all. [...]
Read the full article:
http://sandiegofreepress.org/2013/04/the-san-diego-nine-walk-in-the-footsteps-of-martin-luther-king/
By Jim Miller, San Diego Free Press
April 8, 2013
The San Diego Nine picked the perfect week for a hunger strike. They may not have known it, but the ghosts of Memphis were haunting the Mission Valley Hilton. What’s the connection?
Last week was the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was murdered in Memphis where he had gone to support striking sanitation workers. As I noted in my column for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday in January, the real MLK is frequently neglected in favor of a distorted picture of a vanilla saint who just wanted us all to get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Indeed, King was a provocateur who wanted to disturb us about America’s hypocritical racial inequality AND its shameful class divide. King died fighting for the rights of poor workers of color because he thought nothing was a better example of what he wanted the Poor People’s Campaign to be than the sanitation workers’ strike. Their fight was a call not just for legal civil rights for black people, but a cry for economic justice for all. [...]
Read the full article:
http://sandiegofreepress.org/2013/04/the-san-diego-nine-walk-in-the-footsteps-of-martin-luther-king/
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