By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
January 20, 2016
The number of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally is at its lowest in more than a decade and, for the first time in years, has probably dropped below 11 million.
A new study by the Center for Migration Studies estimates that 10.9 million immigrants are living in the country without authorization. That is the lowest level since 2003 and the first time the number has dipped below 11 million since 2004.
The decline, which has been documented by previous studies as well, runs counter to the widespread image on the Republican presidential campaign trail of a rise in illegal immigration.
GOP front-runner Donald Trump has said illegal immigration rates are "beyond belief" and has claimed that immigrants bringing crime and disease are "just pouring across the border."[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-immigrant-decline-20160120-story.html
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Reminder: NYC, 1/28/16, Protest Brod Kitchen Union-Busting
The owners of Bröd Kitchen (formerly Hot & Crusty) on Manhattan’s Upper East Side announced a sudden and immediate shut down of the unionized bakery/restaurant. This attempt to throw the nineteen workers out of work is a clear attempt at union-busting. Join us to speak out against these greedy and callous owners who try to boost profits by destroying the rights and livelihood of workers and their families.
Union Workers Protest Bröd Kitchen on NYU Site
By Abraham Gross, Washington Square News
January 27, 2016
Dozens of union members and affiliated groups gathered outside Bröd Kitchen on the corner of West Fourth Street and Greene Street last Friday afternoon to protest alleged anti-union actions by the restaurant owners and its partners.
Protestors, some of whom were union workers from the former Hot and Crusty and now Bröd Kitchen on 63rd Street and Second Avenue, stated that their bosses were aiming to shut down their Upper East Side location in favor of the nonunionized NYU site.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nyunews.com/2016/01/27/union-workers-protest-brod-kitchen-on-nyu-site/
For more information:
http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2016/01/nyc-demo-12816-hot-and-crusty-workers.html
Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Bröd Kitchen
31 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012
Union Workers Protest Bröd Kitchen on NYU Site
By Abraham Gross, Washington Square News
January 27, 2016
Dozens of union members and affiliated groups gathered outside Bröd Kitchen on the corner of West Fourth Street and Greene Street last Friday afternoon to protest alleged anti-union actions by the restaurant owners and its partners.
Protestors, some of whom were union workers from the former Hot and Crusty and now Bröd Kitchen on 63rd Street and Second Avenue, stated that their bosses were aiming to shut down their Upper East Side location in favor of the nonunionized NYU site.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nyunews.com/2016/01/27/union-workers-protest-brod-kitchen-on-nyu-site/
For more information:
http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2016/01/nyc-demo-12816-hot-and-crusty-workers.html
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Bizarre Contract Dispute Putting Thousands Of Migrant Children At Risk
The revolving door doesn't swing only at the Pentagon.
By Ryan Grim, The Huffington Post
January 18, 2016
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of unaccompanied minors who came across the U.S. border as part of the migrant crisis are at risk of being deported without due process, the archbishop of Miami has warned the Obama administration.
Although the law dictates that these children must be given legal services, recent moves by the Office of Refugee Resettlement have thrown that into doubt. ORR, which is an agency under the umbrella of Health and Human Services, awarded the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants a contract to represent the children. USCRI in turn planned to subcontract with a social services firm that employed zero attorneys at the time.
"Many of these cases are time sensitive, and if they do not receive immediate attention, the affected children face imminent deportation," Archbishop Thomas Wenski warned HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell in a letter sent in October, and which The Huffington Post obtained last week. Judges in Miami have privately warned that the move could jam up the court dockets for as long as a year.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/migrant-children-legal-representation_us_569cf991e4b0778f46f9ff3c
By Ryan Grim, The Huffington Post
January 18, 2016
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of unaccompanied minors who came across the U.S. border as part of the migrant crisis are at risk of being deported without due process, the archbishop of Miami has warned the Obama administration.
Although the law dictates that these children must be given legal services, recent moves by the Office of Refugee Resettlement have thrown that into doubt. ORR, which is an agency under the umbrella of Health and Human Services, awarded the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants a contract to represent the children. USCRI in turn planned to subcontract with a social services firm that employed zero attorneys at the time.
"Many of these cases are time sensitive, and if they do not receive immediate attention, the affected children face imminent deportation," Archbishop Thomas Wenski warned HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell in a letter sent in October, and which The Huffington Post obtained last week. Judges in Miami have privately warned that the move could jam up the court dockets for as long as a year.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/migrant-children-legal-representation_us_569cf991e4b0778f46f9ff3c
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Beyond Open Borders
The history of Puerto Rican migration to the U.S. shows why the fight for migrant rights must also be a struggle for racial justice.
By Lilia Fernández, NACLA Report on the Americas
January 5, 2016
The third in a multi-part NACLA series on migration in the Americas – past and present. (Earlier articles in the series can be found here and here.)
Immigration activists in the United States have called for open borders as a solution to the abuses suffered by so many migrants. While there are many good reasons to support this, it’s useful to consider one example of what open-border policy and practice might look like, namely Puerto Rican labor migration to the mainland U.S. in the mid-20th century.
During and after World War II, U.S. officials encouraged and recruited Puerto Ricans to migrate to the mainland to fill agricultural and industrial jobs, particularly in areas with labor shortages. Because Puerto Ricans were assigned U.S. citizenship in the first decades of the 20th century, they bypassed the official immigration inspection to which foreign nationals were subjected. Legally speaking, they were simply domestic “American” migrants, like anyone from Tennessee, Montana, or Virginia who relocated to another state.
Puerto Rican “open border” migration occurred at the same time as the much more highly regulated migration of Mexican contract workers through the Bracero Program (1942-1964). These simultaneous migrations offer a useful comparison of open borders versus regulated or restricted migration, and the consequences of both.[...]
Read the full article:
https://nacla.org/news/2016/01/05/beyond-open-borders
By Lilia Fernández, NACLA Report on the Americas
January 5, 2016
The third in a multi-part NACLA series on migration in the Americas – past and present. (Earlier articles in the series can be found here and here.)
Immigration activists in the United States have called for open borders as a solution to the abuses suffered by so many migrants. While there are many good reasons to support this, it’s useful to consider one example of what open-border policy and practice might look like, namely Puerto Rican labor migration to the mainland U.S. in the mid-20th century.
During and after World War II, U.S. officials encouraged and recruited Puerto Ricans to migrate to the mainland to fill agricultural and industrial jobs, particularly in areas with labor shortages. Because Puerto Ricans were assigned U.S. citizenship in the first decades of the 20th century, they bypassed the official immigration inspection to which foreign nationals were subjected. Legally speaking, they were simply domestic “American” migrants, like anyone from Tennessee, Montana, or Virginia who relocated to another state.
Puerto Rican “open border” migration occurred at the same time as the much more highly regulated migration of Mexican contract workers through the Bracero Program (1942-1964). These simultaneous migrations offer a useful comparison of open borders versus regulated or restricted migration, and the consequences of both.[...]
Read the full article:
https://nacla.org/news/2016/01/05/beyond-open-borders
Monday, January 25, 2016
NYC demo, 1/28/16: Hot and Crusty Workers Under Attack
Stop Union Busting at Brod Kitchen
Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm
The owners of Bröd Kitchen (formerly Hot & Crusty) on Manhattan’s Upper East Side announced a sudden and immediate shut down of the unionized bakery/restaurant. This attempt to throw the nineteen workers out of work is a clear attempt at union-busting. Join us to speak out against these greedy and callous owners who try to boost profits by destroying the rights and livelihood of workers and their families.
Location:
Bröd Kitchen
31 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012
Read NYC Central Labor Council post:'
http://www.nycclc.org/event/stop-union-busting-brod-kitchen-jan-28-2016
Download flier:
http://www.nycclc.org/sites/default/files/attached-files/events/Stop%20Union%20Busting%20at%20Brod%20Kitchen/brod-rally-29012016-flier-v4.pdf
Twitter Storm! The Hot & Crusty union workers need your support!
On January 14th, 2016, in an attempt to disband and bust the unionized workers of Brod Kitchen-- formerly Hot & Crusty Bakery--on 63rd Street and 2nd avenue, the owners suddenly announced that they would shut down the unionized bakery/restaurant permanently, THE FOLLOWING DAY. This highly politicized move was made the day before Union negotiations for the worker’s second contract began.
The Hot & Crusty Workers Association (HCWA) represents primarily immigrant and African American workers, and the owners’ actions can only be interpreted as being racist, classist and heartless. Brod Kitchen owners have opened a second location at 31st and 4th street in an attempt to have a non-unionized staff.
19 workers are out of a job within 30 days.
We need your help to stop this attack on workers’ rights here in New York City.
Read full Facebook posting:
https://www.facebook.com/ClementineOh/posts/894393620657713?fref=nf
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Protesters Rally Against Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE Raids in New York City
By Alyza Katrina C. Torres, Latin Post
January 11, 2016
Protesters from a pro-immigrant rights coalition group last Friday held a rally in New York City airing their grievances against the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that kicked off last week in response to orders from the Obama administration.
Since the beginning of the year, the National Homeland Security has announced that it will be deporting and detaining undocumented immigrants in the U.S. starting this month where already121 immigrants mostly from North Carolina, Georgia and Texas were raided and detained.
The coalition group, ICE-Free NYC, according to Latino Rebels, were marching outside an immigration court in lower Manhattan calling out the recent deportation raids made by the Obama administration. Meanwhile, as hundreds of protesters joined, seven people were reportedly arrested when they blocked the corner of Varick Street and West Houston Street, Waging Nonviolence reports.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/107613/20160111/protesters-rally-against-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-or-ice-raids-in-new-york-city.htm
Watch a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHnjbLshtIg
January 11, 2016
Protesters from a pro-immigrant rights coalition group last Friday held a rally in New York City airing their grievances against the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that kicked off last week in response to orders from the Obama administration.
Since the beginning of the year, the National Homeland Security has announced that it will be deporting and detaining undocumented immigrants in the U.S. starting this month where already121 immigrants mostly from North Carolina, Georgia and Texas were raided and detained.
The coalition group, ICE-Free NYC, according to Latino Rebels, were marching outside an immigration court in lower Manhattan calling out the recent deportation raids made by the Obama administration. Meanwhile, as hundreds of protesters joined, seven people were reportedly arrested when they blocked the corner of Varick Street and West Houston Street, Waging Nonviolence reports.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/107613/20160111/protesters-rally-against-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-or-ice-raids-in-new-york-city.htm
Watch a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHnjbLshtIg
Monday, January 18, 2016
This Is Fear: ICE Raids on Parents and Children
By Nancy Hiemstra, Huffington Post
January 8, 2016
At the end of December, The Washington Post reported that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would being rounding up Central American immigrants for deportation. This past weekend, the raids began, with parents and children being detained in military-style operations in several southern and border states. Fear has spread through immigrant communities around the country.
As a professor of migration studies at Stony Brook University who has researched consequences of immigration policies for over a decade, I have followed news of this initiative closely. But I am also an Anglo mom of two on Long Island, in a town with sizeable communities of Latino immigrants, many of them from Central America. I speak Spanish, so I talk with Latino immigrants, I listen, I ask. And this is what fear looks like in my town.
Sunday afternoon, my kids were playing with some kids in the community, blowing off end-of-holiday break steam. Suddenly, one boy said to me, "Miss Nancy, did you hear that they are stopping people on the streets, and taking them away? Whole families. My mom was crying, she's so scared."[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-hiemstra/this-is-fear-ice-raids-on_b_8939568.html
January 8, 2016
At the end of December, The Washington Post reported that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would being rounding up Central American immigrants for deportation. This past weekend, the raids began, with parents and children being detained in military-style operations in several southern and border states. Fear has spread through immigrant communities around the country.
As a professor of migration studies at Stony Brook University who has researched consequences of immigration policies for over a decade, I have followed news of this initiative closely. But I am also an Anglo mom of two on Long Island, in a town with sizeable communities of Latino immigrants, many of them from Central America. I speak Spanish, so I talk with Latino immigrants, I listen, I ask. And this is what fear looks like in my town.
Sunday afternoon, my kids were playing with some kids in the community, blowing off end-of-holiday break steam. Suddenly, one boy said to me, "Miss Nancy, did you hear that they are stopping people on the streets, and taking them away? Whole families. My mom was crying, she's so scared."[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-hiemstra/this-is-fear-ice-raids-on_b_8939568.html
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