By Daniel Kanstrom, New York Times Op-Ed
August 30, 2012
Newton Centre, Mass.-- It would have taken a hard heart not to be moved this month as tens of thousands of “Dreamers” — young undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as children — emerged from the shadows to apply for temporary work permits and deportation deferrals under a new policy by the Obama administration that has delighted immigrant advocates and enraged conservatives.
Though generous and humane, the policy represents only one side of the deportation story. Barack Obama has presided over a record increase in the number of removals, in many cases on legal grounds that offend our basic notions of fairness. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/opinion/deportation-nation.html?ref=opinion
Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Young and Alone, Facing Court and Deportation
By Julia Preston, New York Times
August 25, 2012
HARLINGEN, Tex. — The judge called his next case, scanning the courtroom.
The immigrant who was facing deportation rose to his feet, in a clean T-shirt and khaki pants several sizes too large, with his name — JUAN — printed on a tag around his neck.
But the judge could not see him. Juan’s head did not rise above the court’s wooden benches.
Juan David Gonzalez was 6 years old. He was in the court, which would decide whether to expel him from the country, without a parent — and also without a lawyer. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/us/more-young-illegal-immigrants-face-deportation.html?_r=1&ref=us
Watch the video, "In Deportation, Age 6":
https://mail.google.com/mail/?tab=wm#label/immigration/1396434fee7df63f
August 25, 2012
HARLINGEN, Tex. — The judge called his next case, scanning the courtroom.
The immigrant who was facing deportation rose to his feet, in a clean T-shirt and khaki pants several sizes too large, with his name — JUAN — printed on a tag around his neck.
But the judge could not see him. Juan’s head did not rise above the court’s wooden benches.
Juan David Gonzalez was 6 years old. He was in the court, which would decide whether to expel him from the country, without a parent — and also without a lawyer. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/us/more-young-illegal-immigrants-face-deportation.html?_r=1&ref=us
Watch the video, "In Deportation, Age 6":
https://mail.google.com/mail/?tab=wm#label/immigration/1396434fee7df63f
Friday, August 24, 2012
Private Prisons Spend $45 Million On Lobbying, Rake In $5.1 Billion For Immigrant Detention Alone
By Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress
August 3, 2012
Nearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a night. That’s added up to massive profits for Corrections Corporation of America, The GEO Group and other private prison companies:
A decade ago, more than 3,300 criminal immigrants were sent to private prisons under two 10-year contracts the Federal Bureau of Prisons signed with CCA worth $760 million. Now, the agency is paying the private companies $5.1 billion to hold more than 23,000 criminal immigrants through 13 contracts of varying lengths. [...]
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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/03/627471/private-prisons-spend-45-million-on-lobbying-rake-in-51-billion-for-immigrant-detention-alone/
August 3, 2012
Nearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a night. That’s added up to massive profits for Corrections Corporation of America, The GEO Group and other private prison companies:
A decade ago, more than 3,300 criminal immigrants were sent to private prisons under two 10-year contracts the Federal Bureau of Prisons signed with CCA worth $760 million. Now, the agency is paying the private companies $5.1 billion to hold more than 23,000 criminal immigrants through 13 contracts of varying lengths. [...]
Read the full article:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/03/627471/private-prisons-spend-45-million-on-lobbying-rake-in-51-billion-for-immigrant-detention-alone/
Thursday, August 23, 2012
El Secreto Sucio de la Economía Global
De verdad, la mano de obra migrante e indocumentada es el secreto sucio de la economía global.
Yo tenía sed y me diste a beber
By Elvira Arellano, El Diario/La Prensa
August 8, 2012
Ando bien cansada por la labor de los últimos días de recoger y preparar comida para los inmigrantes, que se encuentran atrapados en el viaje peligroso desde Centroamérica y por todo México para llegar al norte. Siempre es una cosa buena, darle de comer a los que pasan hambre. La experiencia me ha hecho reflexionar sobre la frase "darle de comer a los que pasan hambre".
En la Biblia, Jesucristo cuenta de Lázaro el hombre pobre, cuidado en el cielo mientras que el rico queda sufriendo de sed. Dijo a algunos de los "hombres justos" que aquellos serán salvados quienes "me dieron a comer cuando yo tenía hambre". Los hombres "justos" le preguntaron, "Señor, ¿cuándo lo vimos con hambre?". Jesucristo contestó "cuando los más humildes de mi pueblo pasaban hambre, ahí estaba yo". [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.eldiariony.com/Yo_tenia_sed_y_me_diste_a_beber
Yo tenía sed y me diste a beber
By Elvira Arellano, El Diario/La Prensa
August 8, 2012
Ando bien cansada por la labor de los últimos días de recoger y preparar comida para los inmigrantes, que se encuentran atrapados en el viaje peligroso desde Centroamérica y por todo México para llegar al norte. Siempre es una cosa buena, darle de comer a los que pasan hambre. La experiencia me ha hecho reflexionar sobre la frase "darle de comer a los que pasan hambre".
En la Biblia, Jesucristo cuenta de Lázaro el hombre pobre, cuidado en el cielo mientras que el rico queda sufriendo de sed. Dijo a algunos de los "hombres justos" que aquellos serán salvados quienes "me dieron a comer cuando yo tenía hambre". Los hombres "justos" le preguntaron, "Señor, ¿cuándo lo vimos con hambre?". Jesucristo contestó "cuando los más humildes de mi pueblo pasaban hambre, ahí estaba yo". [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.eldiariony.com/Yo_tenia_sed_y_me_diste_a_beber
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Spanish Appears to Be on Trial in Ariz. Case
By Terry Greene Sterling, National Journal
August 2, 2012
Four years ago, a Minnesota retiree who had resettled in the Phoenix area was upset when she visited a McDonald’s and observed workers speaking Spanish to each other.
Known only as “Gail” in court records, the retiree penned a letter to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who’d become popular among the county’s aging majority white population for his crackdowns on illegal immigration in heavily Latino neighborhoods and workplaces.
“I am a fan of yours and what you are doing to rid the area of illegal immigrants,” Gail wrote Arpaio. Her letter is frequently mentioned in an ongoing trial in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, where Arpaio has denied allegations that he and his department engaged in widespread racial profiling of Hispanics during traffic stops, detentions, and arrests in the nation’s fourth-most populous county. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/immigration/spanish-appears-to-be-on-trial-in-ariz-case-20120802
August 2, 2012
Four years ago, a Minnesota retiree who had resettled in the Phoenix area was upset when she visited a McDonald’s and observed workers speaking Spanish to each other.
Known only as “Gail” in court records, the retiree penned a letter to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who’d become popular among the county’s aging majority white population for his crackdowns on illegal immigration in heavily Latino neighborhoods and workplaces.
“I am a fan of yours and what you are doing to rid the area of illegal immigrants,” Gail wrote Arpaio. Her letter is frequently mentioned in an ongoing trial in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, where Arpaio has denied allegations that he and his department engaged in widespread racial profiling of Hispanics during traffic stops, detentions, and arrests in the nation’s fourth-most populous county. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/immigration/spanish-appears-to-be-on-trial-in-ariz-case-20120802
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Two Articles on Organizing in Texas
Houston, we have a workers’ rights problem
Profile of a worker justice center in Texas’ biggest city
By Kim Krisberg, The Pump Handle
July 9, 2012
Last month, more than 70 ironworkers walked off an ExxonMobil construction site near Houston, Texas. The workers, known as rodbusters in the industry, weren’t members of a union or backed by powerful organizers; they decided amongst themselves to unite in protest of unsafe working conditions in a state that has the highest construction worker fatality rate in the country. [...]
Read the full article:
http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2012/07/09/houston-we-have-a-workers-rights-problem-profile-of-a-worker-justice-center-in-texas-biggest-city/
On the border of change
A portrait of the workers’ rights movement in El Paso
By Kim Krisberg, The Pump Handle
July 27, 2012
In the fall of 2011, a new Texas statute took effect against employers who engage in wage theft, or failing to pay workers as much as they’re owed. The statewide statute put in place real consequences, such as jail time and hefty fines, for employers found guilty of stealing wages from workers. It was a big step forward in a state where wage theft has become as common as cowboy boots and pick-up trucks.
In El Paso, which sits on the western-most tip of Texas on the border with Juarez, Mexico, and is among the most populous cities in the nation, wage theft has become so rampant that workers rights advocates have dubbed it an “epidemic.” [...]
Read the full article:
http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2012/07/27/on-the-border-of-change-a-portrait-of-the-workers-right-movement-in-el-paso/
Profile of a worker justice center in Texas’ biggest city
By Kim Krisberg, The Pump Handle
July 9, 2012
Last month, more than 70 ironworkers walked off an ExxonMobil construction site near Houston, Texas. The workers, known as rodbusters in the industry, weren’t members of a union or backed by powerful organizers; they decided amongst themselves to unite in protest of unsafe working conditions in a state that has the highest construction worker fatality rate in the country. [...]
Read the full article:
http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2012/07/09/houston-we-have-a-workers-rights-problem-profile-of-a-worker-justice-center-in-texas-biggest-city/
On the border of change
A portrait of the workers’ rights movement in El Paso
By Kim Krisberg, The Pump Handle
July 27, 2012
In the fall of 2011, a new Texas statute took effect against employers who engage in wage theft, or failing to pay workers as much as they’re owed. The statewide statute put in place real consequences, such as jail time and hefty fines, for employers found guilty of stealing wages from workers. It was a big step forward in a state where wage theft has become as common as cowboy boots and pick-up trucks.
In El Paso, which sits on the western-most tip of Texas on the border with Juarez, Mexico, and is among the most populous cities in the nation, wage theft has become so rampant that workers rights advocates have dubbed it an “epidemic.” [...]
Read the full article:
http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2012/07/27/on-the-border-of-change-a-portrait-of-the-workers-right-movement-in-el-paso/
Monday, August 20, 2012
Joe the Plumber calls to ‘start shooting’ immigrants at the border
[The week after a white supremacist's rampage in a Sikh temple, a rigntwing candidate for Congress calls for gunning down undocumented immigrants at the border.--Ed.]
By David Edwards, The Raw Story
August 14, 2012
At two separate events in recent days, Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher has proposed to “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting.”
Wurzelbacher first made the remarks during a campaign rally for Arizona Republican state Rep. Lori Klein on Friday, according to video published by Prescott eNews.
“For years I’ve said, you know, put a damn fence on the border, going to Mexico and start shooting,” he insisted.
Wurzelbacher then repeated the remarks at a so-called “Patriot Rally” with Klein on Saturday. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/14/joe-the-plumber-calls-to-start-shooting-immigrants-at-the-border/
By David Edwards, The Raw Story
August 14, 2012
At two separate events in recent days, Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher has proposed to “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting.”
Wurzelbacher first made the remarks during a campaign rally for Arizona Republican state Rep. Lori Klein on Friday, according to video published by Prescott eNews.
“For years I’ve said, you know, put a damn fence on the border, going to Mexico and start shooting,” he insisted.
Wurzelbacher then repeated the remarks at a so-called “Patriot Rally” with Klein on Saturday. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/14/joe-the-plumber-calls-to-start-shooting-immigrants-at-the-border/
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