By Angela Kocherga, KVIA (El Paso, Texas)
April 11, 2012
EL PASO, Texas -- A U.S. Border Patrol agent and his girlfriend are in federal custody charged with buying and smuggling weapons and ammunition across the border to Mexico and into the hands of violent drug traffickers.
The pair was arrested Monday after a yearlong investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms in El Paso.
A federal grand jury indicted U.S. Border Patrol Agent Ricardo Montalvo, 28, and his girl friend Carla Gonzales Ortiz, 29 on conspiracy, firearms and smuggling charges. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.kvia.com/news/30874369/detail.html
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Home again in Mexico: Illegal immigration hits net zero
Tiny Tamaula is the new face of rural Mexico: Villagers are home again as the illegal immigration boom drops to net zero
By Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor
April 8, 2012
Tamaula, Mexico--At this time of year in this tiny rural outpost that sits on a mountainside in Guanajuato State, most able-bodied men are gone. They're off plucking and cutting chicken in processing plants in Georgia or pruning the backyards of Seattle.
But this year, Pedro Laguna and his wife, Silvia Arellano, are clearing rocks from their yard to prepare a field for corn. They've returned home to Tamaula, Mexico, with their four young children, after 20 years in the United States working illegally. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2012/0408/Home-again-in-Mexico-Illegal-immigration-hits-net-zero
By Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor
April 8, 2012
Tamaula, Mexico--At this time of year in this tiny rural outpost that sits on a mountainside in Guanajuato State, most able-bodied men are gone. They're off plucking and cutting chicken in processing plants in Georgia or pruning the backyards of Seattle.
But this year, Pedro Laguna and his wife, Silvia Arellano, are clearing rocks from their yard to prepare a field for corn. They've returned home to Tamaula, Mexico, with their four young children, after 20 years in the United States working illegally. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2012/0408/Home-again-in-Mexico-Illegal-immigration-hits-net-zero
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Shocking Video of Death at the Border
By Arturo Carmona, Presente.org
April 18, 2012
"Please! Señores, help me!"
These are the words screamed by Anastasio Hernández-Rojas as over a dozen U.S. Border Patrol agents beat and tasered him in May 2010. PBS has just uncovered new video showing how Anastasio laid in the dirt defenseless, begging for his life, as Border Patrol agents continued to beat him. The video elicits haunting reminders of the Rodney King beating as Anastasio cries out "¡Nooo! ¡Nooo! ¡Déjenme! [Leave me alone!] ¡Nooo! ¡Señores!" Anastasio later died at the hospital.
There's been two years of inaction, and now we finally have the evidence we need to break the case open. Watch the video clip and sign a petition telling the Justice Department to investigate his death immediately.
http://act.presente.org/sign/anastasio/
If justice isn't served for Anastasio, even when video clearly shows injustice, Border Patrol agents will continue their pattern of abuse and lethal force. Since Anastasio's death in May 2010, at least 7 other US citizens and non-citizens have died in Border Patrol custody, yet there's been no serious investigation by the Justice Department.
"They [Border Patrol] didn't stop to think that he had a family. That he left behind five children and a wife," said Anastasio's widow, María Puga. Please join María in bearing witness to the killing of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas and tell the Justice Department to investigate his homicide now!
http://act.presente.org/sign/anastasio/
Todos somos Anastasio. We are all Anastasio.
Thanks and ¡adelante!
Arturo, Ana, Roberto and the rest of the Presente.org Team
References:
"First Look: Crossing The Line," Need to Know on PBS, 4/12/12
http://to.pbs.org/IZequw
“In History: Rodney King,” CBS News, 2/26/06
http://cbsn.ws/IL5G4C
Southern Border Communities Coalition
http://soboco.org/category/border-brutality
April 18, 2012
"Please! Señores, help me!"
These are the words screamed by Anastasio Hernández-Rojas as over a dozen U.S. Border Patrol agents beat and tasered him in May 2010. PBS has just uncovered new video showing how Anastasio laid in the dirt defenseless, begging for his life, as Border Patrol agents continued to beat him. The video elicits haunting reminders of the Rodney King beating as Anastasio cries out "¡Nooo! ¡Nooo! ¡Déjenme! [Leave me alone!] ¡Nooo! ¡Señores!" Anastasio later died at the hospital.
There's been two years of inaction, and now we finally have the evidence we need to break the case open. Watch the video clip and sign a petition telling the Justice Department to investigate his death immediately.
http://act.presente.org/sign/anastasio/
If justice isn't served for Anastasio, even when video clearly shows injustice, Border Patrol agents will continue their pattern of abuse and lethal force. Since Anastasio's death in May 2010, at least 7 other US citizens and non-citizens have died in Border Patrol custody, yet there's been no serious investigation by the Justice Department.
"They [Border Patrol] didn't stop to think that he had a family. That he left behind five children and a wife," said Anastasio's widow, María Puga. Please join María in bearing witness to the killing of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas and tell the Justice Department to investigate his homicide now!
http://act.presente.org/sign/anastasio/
Todos somos Anastasio. We are all Anastasio.
Thanks and ¡adelante!
Arturo, Ana, Roberto and the rest of the Presente.org Team
References:
"First Look: Crossing The Line," Need to Know on PBS, 4/12/12
http://to.pbs.org/IZequw
“In History: Rodney King,” CBS News, 2/26/06
http://cbsn.ws/IL5G4C
Southern Border Communities Coalition
http://soboco.org/category/border-brutality
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Why Haiti Wasn’t “Built Back Better”
By David L. Wilson, Upside Down World
April 17, 2012
Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake. Mark Schuller and Pablo Morales, editors. Kumarian Press, 2012. Paperback, 288 pages, $24.95.
Earthquakes may be hard to predict, but it should have been easy to foresee the disaster that would result from the sort of quake that hit Haiti in January 2010. Haiti’s failure to recover in the two years since was just as predictable.
The structural problems that turned a bad earthquake into a cataclysm go all the way back to Haiti’s colonial history, but the immediate causes are much more recent. [...]
Read the full article:
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/haiti-archives-51/3582--why-haiti-wasnt-built-back-better
For earlier earthquake coverage:
http://grassrootssolidarity.blogspot.com/2010/02/singing-and-praying-at-night-in-port-au.html
April 17, 2012
Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake. Mark Schuller and Pablo Morales, editors. Kumarian Press, 2012. Paperback, 288 pages, $24.95.
Earthquakes may be hard to predict, but it should have been easy to foresee the disaster that would result from the sort of quake that hit Haiti in January 2010. Haiti’s failure to recover in the two years since was just as predictable.
The structural problems that turned a bad earthquake into a cataclysm go all the way back to Haiti’s colonial history, but the immediate causes are much more recent. [...]
Read the full article:
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/haiti-archives-51/3582--why-haiti-wasnt-built-back-better
For earlier earthquake coverage:
http://grassrootssolidarity.blogspot.com/2010/02/singing-and-praying-at-night-in-port-au.html
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The Problem with ObamaCare that Nobody Talks About
While we were demonstrating, I saw a young boy kicking a soda can down the street. I thought to myself, ”That is what they are doing to our children, kicking their futures down the road like an old dirty half crushed soda can."
By Elvira Arellano, Centro sin Fronteras
April 11, 2012
The national news lit up last week after the Supreme Court heard arguments about ”Obama Care.” The court will decide if Obama’s effort to provide health insurance for most U.S. citizens be requiring all citizens to buy insurance is constitutional.
The news coverage reminded me of the time Familia Latina Unida demonstrated outside on the steps of the Supreme Court. We were asking the Supreme Court to hear our lawsuit which sought to stop the government from deporting the parents of U.S. citizen children. We argued that it violated the constitutional rights of the children. Sadly, the court never decided to hear our case. [...]
Read the full article:
http://fluenglish.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/the-problem-with-obamacare-that-nobody-talks-about/
Lea el artículo en español:
http://www.laopinion.com/article/20120411/IMPORT01/304119986
By Elvira Arellano, Centro sin Fronteras
April 11, 2012
The national news lit up last week after the Supreme Court heard arguments about ”Obama Care.” The court will decide if Obama’s effort to provide health insurance for most U.S. citizens be requiring all citizens to buy insurance is constitutional.
The news coverage reminded me of the time Familia Latina Unida demonstrated outside on the steps of the Supreme Court. We were asking the Supreme Court to hear our lawsuit which sought to stop the government from deporting the parents of U.S. citizen children. We argued that it violated the constitutional rights of the children. Sadly, the court never decided to hear our case. [...]
Read the full article:
http://fluenglish.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/the-problem-with-obamacare-that-nobody-talks-about/
Lea el artículo en español:
http://www.laopinion.com/article/20120411/IMPORT01/304119986
Friday, April 13, 2012
Two Immigrants Killed in Ambush by Arizona Gunmen
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout Report
April 11, 2012
Eloy, Arizona.Two people were killed on Sunday night when "an unknown number of subjects in camouflage clothing armed with rifles" ambushed a truck carrying 20 to 30 undocumented immigrants near the southern Arizona town of Eloy," according to the Pima County sheriff's department.
Border Patrol agents and police found one body in the bed of the pickup truck and the other nearby in the desert. The identities of the victims have not been released. [...]
Read the full article:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8469-arizona-gunmen-wearing-camouflage-kill-two-immigrants-in-ambush
April 11, 2012
Eloy, Arizona.Two people were killed on Sunday night when "an unknown number of subjects in camouflage clothing armed with rifles" ambushed a truck carrying 20 to 30 undocumented immigrants near the southern Arizona town of Eloy," according to the Pima County sheriff's department.
Border Patrol agents and police found one body in the bed of the pickup truck and the other nearby in the desert. The identities of the victims have not been released. [...]
Read the full article:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8469-arizona-gunmen-wearing-camouflage-kill-two-immigrants-in-ambush
Monday, April 2, 2012
Former Restaurant Workers Demand $27K in Unpaid Wages
By Gloria Medina, El Diario-La Prensa via Voices of NY
March 22, 2012
Wage theft has been a recurring issue for New York City’s Latino community. On March 21, former workers at the restaurant Plaza Garibaldi in Elmhurst, Queens, held a protest, claiming they were cheated out of wages due to them. Below is the translation from Spanish of an El Diario La Prensa article by Gloria Medina on last week’s protest.
Yesterday [March 21], five female ex-workers of the Plaza Garibaldi restaurant in Queens demanded that their former boss pay them $27,000 in wages that they say they earned over months of working there. [...]
Read the full article:
http://voicesofny.org/2012/03/former-restaurant-workers-demand-27k-in-unpaid-wages/
Read the original story:
http://www.eldiariony.com/article/20120322/LOCALES/303229910
March 22, 2012
Wage theft has been a recurring issue for New York City’s Latino community. On March 21, former workers at the restaurant Plaza Garibaldi in Elmhurst, Queens, held a protest, claiming they were cheated out of wages due to them. Below is the translation from Spanish of an El Diario La Prensa article by Gloria Medina on last week’s protest.
Yesterday [March 21], five female ex-workers of the Plaza Garibaldi restaurant in Queens demanded that their former boss pay them $27,000 in wages that they say they earned over months of working there. [...]
Read the full article:
http://voicesofny.org/2012/03/former-restaurant-workers-demand-27k-in-unpaid-wages/
Read the original story:
http://www.eldiariony.com/article/20120322/LOCALES/303229910
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