What we learned was the Repubicans' “dirty little secret”: they did not want to get rid of the system of undocumented labor, they just wanted to control it.
By Elvira Arellano, Familia Unida Latina
September 28, 2010
While I was in the United States, Familia Latina Unida had the opportunity to meet with the infamous Congressman Sensenbrenner. The Wisconsin Senator had introduced – and passed in the House of Representatives – the most repressive law against the undocumented. The movement had responded with the largest marches in the history of the United States. Later in the spring of that year, the movement forced the passage of comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate, only to have the Republican controlled House of Representatives refuse to even consider it. [...]
Todavía estamos luchando en contra de Sensenbrenner
Lo que aprendimos fue el “pequeño secreto sucio” de los republicanos, que es que no desean desmantelar al sistema de mano de obra indocumentada; mas bien lo pretenden controlar.
Por Elvira Arellano, Familia Unida Latina
September 28, 2010
Cuando yo vivia en los Estados Unidos, la Familia Latina tuvimos la oportunidad de reunirnos con el infame congresista Sensenbrenner. El congresista de Wisconsin había introducido en la Cámara de Representantes y logrado la aprobación de la ley más represiva en contra de los indocumentados. El movimiento había respondido por medio de las mayores marchas de protesta en la historia de los Estados Unidos. Después durante la primavera de aquel año, se logró aprobar una reforma integral de las leyes de inmigración en el Senado pero la Cámara de Representantes, en aquel entonces controlada por los republicanos, ni siquiera lo consideró. [...]
Read the full article:
http://fluenglish.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/still-fighting-sensenbrenner/
http://fluspanish.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/todavia-estamos-luchando-en-contra-de-sensenbrenner/
Also in El Diario-La Prensa (NY), September 29, 2010:
http://www.impre.com/eldiariony/opinion/columnistas/2010/9/29/seguimos-luchando-contra-sense-213544-1.html#commentsBlock
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Birthright Citizenship Is Bedrock Americanism
By Van Gosse, Huffington Post
September 27, 2010
We need to get clear: birthright citizenship was a core principle at the founding of the Republic in 1776. Yet now, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina wants to hold Senate hearings on the bedrock constitutional precept that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-gosse/birthright-citizenship-is_b_738923.html
September 27, 2010
We need to get clear: birthright citizenship was a core principle at the founding of the Republic in 1776. Yet now, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina wants to hold Senate hearings on the bedrock constitutional precept that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-gosse/birthright-citizenship-is_b_738923.html
Sunday, September 26, 2010
"Las mujeres de La Casa Rosa" & Last NYC Performances
Silvina Sterin Pensel, El Diario-La Prensa (NY)
September 26, 2010
La obra se montó hace un año y es la primera vez que sale de gira
El grupo ocupa casi todo el vagón; algunas dormitan, otras repasan el guión y otras conversan. En este tren rumbo a Connecticut viajan más de 20 mexicanas que en un par de horas presentarán La Casa Rosa, una obra teatral que aborda frontalmente la temática de la inmigración, sus causas y sus efectos principalmente en aquellos que quedan atrás, aquellos que no se van y se aferran a la tierra.
Devenidas en actrices, estas mujeres del pequeño pueblo de San Francisco Tetlanohcan; en Tlaxcala, son principalmente madres, hermanas, abuelas e hijas de inmigrantes que partieron rumbo al norte con la esperanza —fallida o no— de un mejor porvenir. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.impre.com/eldiariony/noticias/comunidad/2010/9/26/las-mujeres-de-la-casa-rosa-212870-1.html#
See also:
Mexican Community Theater: A Different View of Immigration
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/wilson030910.html
Last Three NYC Performances
Sunday September 26th, 3-5 PM at Intar, 500 West 52nd Street 4th floor, New York, NY.
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=intar+new+york&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=intar&hnear=New+York&ll=40.777032,-73.998413&spn=0.059016,0.122566&z=13&iwloc=A
Monday September 27th, 7-9 PM at Intar, 500 West 52nd Street 4th floor, New York, NY.
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=intar+new+york&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=intar&hnear=New+York&ll=40.777032,-73.998413&spn=0.059016,0.122566&z=13&iwloc=A
Wednesday, September 29th, 7:30-9 PM at University Settlement Speyer Hall, 184 Elderidge St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY.
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=safari&q=184+eldridge+street+ny+ny&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=184+Eldridge+St,+New+York,+10002&gl=us&ei=AtV_TJn4NMKAlAe507W1Dg&ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA&z=16
September 26, 2010
La obra se montó hace un año y es la primera vez que sale de gira
El grupo ocupa casi todo el vagón; algunas dormitan, otras repasan el guión y otras conversan. En este tren rumbo a Connecticut viajan más de 20 mexicanas que en un par de horas presentarán La Casa Rosa, una obra teatral que aborda frontalmente la temática de la inmigración, sus causas y sus efectos principalmente en aquellos que quedan atrás, aquellos que no se van y se aferran a la tierra.
Devenidas en actrices, estas mujeres del pequeño pueblo de San Francisco Tetlanohcan; en Tlaxcala, son principalmente madres, hermanas, abuelas e hijas de inmigrantes que partieron rumbo al norte con la esperanza —fallida o no— de un mejor porvenir. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.impre.com/eldiariony/noticias/comunidad/2010/9/26/las-mujeres-de-la-casa-rosa-212870-1.html#
See also:
Mexican Community Theater: A Different View of Immigration
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/wilson030910.html
Last Three NYC Performances
Sunday September 26th, 3-5 PM at Intar, 500 West 52nd Street 4th floor, New York, NY.
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=intar+new+york&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=intar&hnear=New+York&ll=40.777032,-73.998413&spn=0.059016,0.122566&z=13&iwloc=A
Monday September 27th, 7-9 PM at Intar, 500 West 52nd Street 4th floor, New York, NY.
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=intar+new+york&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=intar&hnear=New+York&ll=40.777032,-73.998413&spn=0.059016,0.122566&z=13&iwloc=A
Wednesday, September 29th, 7:30-9 PM at University Settlement Speyer Hall, 184 Elderidge St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY.
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=safari&q=184+eldridge+street+ny+ny&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=184+Eldridge+St,+New+York,+10002&gl=us&ei=AtV_TJn4NMKAlAe507W1Dg&ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA&z=16
Mexican New Yorkers Are Steady Force in Workplace
“Illegal immigrants are very convenient,” said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Washington. “Employers are quite interested in employing people who are willing to work and to overlook some labor laws.”
By Kirk Semple, New York Times
September 22, 2010
Night and day, the heavy front door rarely stops swinging. Men and women pass one another at the entrance of a four-story building on 21st Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, on their way out to work, or back in for a few hours of sleep between shifts. They are line cooks, construction laborers, deliverymen, deli workers, housecleaners and gardeners. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/nyregion/23mexicans.html?_r=1&hp
By Kirk Semple, New York Times
September 22, 2010
Night and day, the heavy front door rarely stops swinging. Men and women pass one another at the entrance of a four-story building on 21st Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, on their way out to work, or back in for a few hours of sleep between shifts. They are line cooks, construction laborers, deliverymen, deli workers, housecleaners and gardeners. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/nyregion/23mexicans.html?_r=1&hp
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Family Fight, Border Patrol Raid, Baby Deported
By Adam Liptak, New York Times
September 20, 2010
A few days before her daughter Rosa’s first birthday, Monica Castro and the girl’s father had a violent argument in the trailer they all shared near Lubbock, Tex. Ms. Castro fled, leaving her daughter behind.
Ms. Castro, a fourth-generation American citizen, went to the local Border Patrol station. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/us/21bar.html?ref=us
September 20, 2010
A few days before her daughter Rosa’s first birthday, Monica Castro and the girl’s father had a violent argument in the trailer they all shared near Lubbock, Tex. Ms. Castro fled, leaving her daughter behind.
Ms. Castro, a fourth-generation American citizen, went to the local Border Patrol station. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/us/21bar.html?ref=us
Friday, September 24, 2010
Immigration Crackdown Steps Into the Kitchen
“We always, always hire the undocumented workers,” he said. “It’s not just me, it’s everybody in the industry. First, they are willing to do the work. Second, they are willing to learn. Third, they are not paid as well. It’s an economic decision. It’s less expensive to hire an undocumented person.”
By Sarah Kershaw, New York Times
September 7, 2010
FOR a man facing the possibility of up to 30 years in prison, almost $4 million in fines and the government seizure of his small French restaurant here, Michel Malecot has an unusually jovial and serene air. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/dining/08crackdown.html?_r=1&ref=us
By Sarah Kershaw, New York Times
September 7, 2010
FOR a man facing the possibility of up to 30 years in prison, almost $4 million in fines and the government seizure of his small French restaurant here, Michel Malecot has an unusually jovial and serene air. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/dining/08crackdown.html?_r=1&ref=us
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Are Immigrants "Good for the Economy"?
by David L. Wilson, MRZine
September 18, 2010
U.S. progressives have expressed a great deal of concern about the effects of anti-immigrant hysteria in the general population, from criminal attacks on immigrants to vicious legislation like Arizona's SB 1070. But instead of just condemning the hysteria, maybe we need to ask ourselves what we've been doing to counter it.
Not very much, according to one experienced immigrant rights organizer. [...]
Read the full article:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/wilson180910.html
September 18, 2010
U.S. progressives have expressed a great deal of concern about the effects of anti-immigrant hysteria in the general population, from criminal attacks on immigrants to vicious legislation like Arizona's SB 1070. But instead of just condemning the hysteria, maybe we need to ask ourselves what we've been doing to counter it.
Not very much, according to one experienced immigrant rights organizer. [...]
Read the full article:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/wilson180910.html
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