For more than a decade, Kris Kobach has been the G.O.P.’s anointed ideas man for hard-line immigration policies. Now he’s advising Donald Trump.
By Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker
November 22, 2016
During Mitt Romney’s campaign for President, in 2012, he claimed that he could solve the political conundrum of immigration reform by getting undocumented immigrants to “self-deport” from the United States en masse. He was roundly mocked for the idea. Why would millions of people voluntarily leave a country they’d long considered home? His suggestion, though, was hardly a flub—it was meant to be a serious threat. For Kris Kobach, the adviser who sold Romney on the concept, the eventuality of widespread self-deportation was entirely feasible. The government simply had to make life so unrelentingly difficult for immigrants that they’d have no other choice.
Kobach, who has been the Kansas secretary of state since 2011, is advising President-elect Donald Trump during the transition, and he appears to be a candidate for a top post in the incoming Administration.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trumps-ideas-man-for-hard-line-immigration-policy
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Friday, November 25, 2016
Immigrant Communities Brace for Trump
Donald Trump promised to deport two million “criminal illegal immigrants” in his first 100 days in office. Immigrants and their allies are already organizing, protesting, and defending “sanctuary cities.”
David Bacon, American Prospect
November 22, 2016
The state of Nebraska went red on Election Day, voting for Donald Trump and the Republican ticket, but working-class Omaha, Nebraska's largest city, went blue, voting for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. Clinton won urban Omaha—Douglas County—by 3,000 votes, but lost the city’s electoral vote. In 2010, redistricting had joined Omaha to the wealthier suburbs of Sarpy County, delivering Trump a 12,000-vote advantage this year. Incumbent Democratic House member Brad Ashford lost his seat to Republican Don Bacon on November 8 for the same reason.
Nevertheless, all 18 precincts of Ward 4 voted against Trump by a two-to-one margin, thanks to years of patient organizing by the immigrant Mexican community of South Omaha. African American North Omaha voted solidly against Trump as well. The Omaha results highlight both the achievements of years of organizing in U.S. immigrant communities, as well as the vulnerability of those same communities under a Trump administration.
“We have built institutions in which immigrants are winning power in the middle of a corporate culture,” says Sergio Sosa, director of Nebraska's Heartland Workers Center. He describes a 20-year history of community and workplace organizing. “We resisted immigration raids in meatpacking plants under the Clinton and Bush administrations, and mounted marches and demonstrations for immigration reform. For eight years, we’ve fought deportations under President Obama, while building a precinct-by-precinct power base.”[...]
Read the full article:
http://prospect.org/article/immigrant-communities-brace-trump
David Bacon, American Prospect
November 22, 2016
The state of Nebraska went red on Election Day, voting for Donald Trump and the Republican ticket, but working-class Omaha, Nebraska's largest city, went blue, voting for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. Clinton won urban Omaha—Douglas County—by 3,000 votes, but lost the city’s electoral vote. In 2010, redistricting had joined Omaha to the wealthier suburbs of Sarpy County, delivering Trump a 12,000-vote advantage this year. Incumbent Democratic House member Brad Ashford lost his seat to Republican Don Bacon on November 8 for the same reason.
Nevertheless, all 18 precincts of Ward 4 voted against Trump by a two-to-one margin, thanks to years of patient organizing by the immigrant Mexican community of South Omaha. African American North Omaha voted solidly against Trump as well. The Omaha results highlight both the achievements of years of organizing in U.S. immigrant communities, as well as the vulnerability of those same communities under a Trump administration.
“We have built institutions in which immigrants are winning power in the middle of a corporate culture,” says Sergio Sosa, director of Nebraska's Heartland Workers Center. He describes a 20-year history of community and workplace organizing. “We resisted immigration raids in meatpacking plants under the Clinton and Bush administrations, and mounted marches and demonstrations for immigration reform. For eight years, we’ve fought deportations under President Obama, while building a precinct-by-precinct power base.”[...]
Read the full article:
http://prospect.org/article/immigrant-communities-brace-trump
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Why Private Prison Stocks Are Soaring
Investors are betting on Trump’s promise to incarcerate and deport millions, and big changes may be coming to America's prison towns, says Carl Takei of the ACLU.
By George Josephy, CityLab
November 14, 2016
Among the big winners buoyed by Donald Trump’s victory? The private prison industry. Shares of CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America) and GEO Group, the two biggest players in the business, jumped 43 and 21 percent, respectively, the day after the election.
Over the last week, their fortunes have continued to rise as Trump’s recent public statements affirm his aggressive deportation plans. In an interview broadcast on CBS’ “60 Minutes” Sunday, Trump insisted he would remove two to three million immigrants upon taking office, incarcerating many in the process. “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records,” Trump told correspondent Lesley Stahl. “We are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate.”
Trump’s win comes at a crucial time for the prison business.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.citylab.com/crime/2016/11/why-private-prison-stocks-are-soaring/507626/
By George Josephy, CityLab
November 14, 2016
Among the big winners buoyed by Donald Trump’s victory? The private prison industry. Shares of CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America) and GEO Group, the two biggest players in the business, jumped 43 and 21 percent, respectively, the day after the election.
Over the last week, their fortunes have continued to rise as Trump’s recent public statements affirm his aggressive deportation plans. In an interview broadcast on CBS’ “60 Minutes” Sunday, Trump insisted he would remove two to three million immigrants upon taking office, incarcerating many in the process. “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records,” Trump told correspondent Lesley Stahl. “We are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate.”
Trump’s win comes at a crucial time for the prison business.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.citylab.com/crime/2016/11/why-private-prison-stocks-are-soaring/507626/
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Over 350 Faculty Members Urge Support for Undocumented Students
By Mia C. Karr, Harvard Crimson
November 18, 2016
More than 350 faculty members signed a letter Wednesday urging University President Drew G. Faust and other Harvard administrators to protect undocumented students in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States.
The letter—published in The Crimson and co-authored by Fine Arts and African and African American Studies Professor Suzanne P. Blier, English Professor Stephen L. Burt ’93, and History and African and African American Studies Professor Walter Johnson—argues that the University has an obligation to protect students to the best of its ability and uphold its stated ideals of diversity.[...]
Read the full article:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/11/18/harvard-faculty-undocumented-students/
November 18, 2016
More than 350 faculty members signed a letter Wednesday urging University President Drew G. Faust and other Harvard administrators to protect undocumented students in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States.
The letter—published in The Crimson and co-authored by Fine Arts and African and African American Studies Professor Suzanne P. Blier, English Professor Stephen L. Burt ’93, and History and African and African American Studies Professor Walter Johnson—argues that the University has an obligation to protect students to the best of its ability and uphold its stated ideals of diversity.[...]
Read the full article:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/11/18/harvard-faculty-undocumented-students/
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
What Trump's Presidency Will Mean for the Dreamers
The Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has granted reprieves to many undocumented immigrants. The Trump Administration could end the program.
By Francisco Goldman, The New Yorker
November 19, 2016
In November, 2014, when news stories about Donald Trump, if he was in the news at all, made him seem nothing more than a buffoon, President Obama issued a series of executive actions on immigration. One of them expanded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or daca, which allowed immigrants brought to the U.S. as children—often referred to as “Dreamers”—to apply for work permits and temporary protection against deportation. dapa, another new program, offered the same assurances to undocumented immigrant parents whose children were U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Some five million immigrants might have benefitted, but the programs were put on hold in May, 2015, by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld an injunction issued by a judge in Texas. After the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, organizations and immigrants remained in a state of suspense.
For the New York Immigration Coalition, prepping immigrants to apply for daca or dapa was a priority, both before and after the injunction. One afternoon in the spring of 2015, while the Supreme Court was still undecided as to the fate of the executive orders, I dropped by Junior High School 162, in Bushwick, where Betsy Plum, the director of special projects at the Immigration Coalition, and some of her young colleagues, along with other immigration attorneys, activists, and representatives from foreign consulates, had organized a day of outreach to the local immigrant community. That morning, Plum told me, the line had stretched down the sidewalk.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-trumps-presidency-will-mean-for-the-dreamers
By Francisco Goldman, The New Yorker
November 19, 2016
In November, 2014, when news stories about Donald Trump, if he was in the news at all, made him seem nothing more than a buffoon, President Obama issued a series of executive actions on immigration. One of them expanded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or daca, which allowed immigrants brought to the U.S. as children—often referred to as “Dreamers”—to apply for work permits and temporary protection against deportation. dapa, another new program, offered the same assurances to undocumented immigrant parents whose children were U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Some five million immigrants might have benefitted, but the programs were put on hold in May, 2015, by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld an injunction issued by a judge in Texas. After the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, organizations and immigrants remained in a state of suspense.
For the New York Immigration Coalition, prepping immigrants to apply for daca or dapa was a priority, both before and after the injunction. One afternoon in the spring of 2015, while the Supreme Court was still undecided as to the fate of the executive orders, I dropped by Junior High School 162, in Bushwick, where Betsy Plum, the director of special projects at the Immigration Coalition, and some of her young colleagues, along with other immigration attorneys, activists, and representatives from foreign consulates, had organized a day of outreach to the local immigrant community. That morning, Plum told me, the line had stretched down the sidewalk.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-trumps-presidency-will-mean-for-the-dreamers
Monday, November 21, 2016
Otra Vuelta del Planeta/As the World Turns…
Otra Vuelta del Planeta
Por Elvira Arellano, Familias Unidas
16 de Noviembre, 2016
Después de los ataques terroristas del 11 de Septiembre de 2001, casi la nación entera se hallaba sumergida en una onda de temor e ira. Se buscaba a Osama bin Laten pero como lo podían ubicar, se lanzaron ataques en contra de los inmigrantes mexicanos. Pocos días antes del “9-11”, activistas del movimiento pro derechos inmigrantes pretendían viajar a Washington para celebrar la aprobación de una ley de reforma migratoria. Después de los ataques aquel proyecto de ley murió en el Congreso. Se unieron demócratas y republicanos tras el proyecto de sacar a los indocumentados del país.
En aquel momento no nos dimos por vencidos y tampoco debemos hacerlo ahora. Presentamos nuestras familias a la nación. Dimos nuestro testimonio en audiencias de gobiernos municipales, de condados, de estados y ante el Congreso federal. Tuvimos platicas con los sindicatos y con las iglesias. Nos organizamos y íbamos marchando juntos con millones de latinos, con o sin papeles. En Chicago empezamos el movimiento de santuario de nuevo. Nos movilizamos para elegir al presidente Obama bajo la promesa de una reforma migratoria durante sus primeros 100 días en la casa blanca.
Cuando Obama incumplió su promesa, marchábamos otra vez, hasta el punto nos concedió el programa DACA para los soñadores, justamente antes de su reelección.[...]
As the World Turns…
By Elvira Arellano, Familias Unidas
November 16, 2016
We have been here before – only there is something different now
After 9/11 in 2001 almost the entire nation was living in fear and anger. They were looking for Bin Ladin but they couldn’t find him so they directed their anger at the Mexican immigrant. Only a few days before 9/11 immigration activists were preparing to go the Washington DC to celebrate the passage of a reform law. After 9/11 that legislation died in the Congress. Democrats and Republicans were joined at the hip, intent on driving immigrants from the nation.
We didn’t give up then – and we shouldn‘t give up now. We brought our families before the nation. We testified in local city councils, county board, state legislatures and before the U.S. Congress. We talked with the unions and the churches. We organized ourselves – and we marched with millions of Latinos – both with and without papers. In Chicago we began the sanctuary movement again. We mobilized and elected President Obama on the promise of immigration reform in the first 100 days.
When President Obama broke his promise we marched and rallied again – until right before his second election the President gave us DACA for the Dreamers.[...]
Lea el artículo completo/read the full article:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sanctuarymovement/E0R7z7N2jzw
Por Elvira Arellano, Familias Unidas
16 de Noviembre, 2016
Después de los ataques terroristas del 11 de Septiembre de 2001, casi la nación entera se hallaba sumergida en una onda de temor e ira. Se buscaba a Osama bin Laten pero como lo podían ubicar, se lanzaron ataques en contra de los inmigrantes mexicanos. Pocos días antes del “9-11”, activistas del movimiento pro derechos inmigrantes pretendían viajar a Washington para celebrar la aprobación de una ley de reforma migratoria. Después de los ataques aquel proyecto de ley murió en el Congreso. Se unieron demócratas y republicanos tras el proyecto de sacar a los indocumentados del país.
En aquel momento no nos dimos por vencidos y tampoco debemos hacerlo ahora. Presentamos nuestras familias a la nación. Dimos nuestro testimonio en audiencias de gobiernos municipales, de condados, de estados y ante el Congreso federal. Tuvimos platicas con los sindicatos y con las iglesias. Nos organizamos y íbamos marchando juntos con millones de latinos, con o sin papeles. En Chicago empezamos el movimiento de santuario de nuevo. Nos movilizamos para elegir al presidente Obama bajo la promesa de una reforma migratoria durante sus primeros 100 días en la casa blanca.
Cuando Obama incumplió su promesa, marchábamos otra vez, hasta el punto nos concedió el programa DACA para los soñadores, justamente antes de su reelección.[...]
As the World Turns…
By Elvira Arellano, Familias Unidas
November 16, 2016
We have been here before – only there is something different now
After 9/11 in 2001 almost the entire nation was living in fear and anger. They were looking for Bin Ladin but they couldn’t find him so they directed their anger at the Mexican immigrant. Only a few days before 9/11 immigration activists were preparing to go the Washington DC to celebrate the passage of a reform law. After 9/11 that legislation died in the Congress. Democrats and Republicans were joined at the hip, intent on driving immigrants from the nation.
We didn’t give up then – and we shouldn‘t give up now. We brought our families before the nation. We testified in local city councils, county board, state legislatures and before the U.S. Congress. We talked with the unions and the churches. We organized ourselves – and we marched with millions of Latinos – both with and without papers. In Chicago we began the sanctuary movement again. We mobilized and elected President Obama on the promise of immigration reform in the first 100 days.
When President Obama broke his promise we marched and rallied again – until right before his second election the President gave us DACA for the Dreamers.[...]
Lea el artículo completo/read the full article:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sanctuarymovement/E0R7z7N2jzw
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Owner Was Target, but Restaurant Workers Are Swept Up in Immigration Raids
By Liz Robbins, New York Times
November 11, 2016
BUFFALO — Immigration enforcement agents were supposed to be targeting the restaurant owner. But Antonio Ramos Salazar, a cook, was the one with guns pointed at his head.
One morning last month the officers burst through the back door at La Divina, a no-frills Mexican market and taco counter in suburban Buffalo, capping a two-year investigation into the labor practices of the restaurant’s owner, Sergio Mucino. According to the authorities, Mr. Mucino, 42, a legal permanent resident from Mexico City, along with two associates, had been harboring undocumented workers in homes around Buffalo, transporting them to jobs at his restaurants and paying them off the books.
Mr. Mucino was arrested at his home on Oct. 18. But two dozen of his workers were swept up in simultaneous raids that morning at all four of his restaurants.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/nyregion/immigration-workplace-raids-buffalo.html
November 11, 2016
BUFFALO — Immigration enforcement agents were supposed to be targeting the restaurant owner. But Antonio Ramos Salazar, a cook, was the one with guns pointed at his head.
One morning last month the officers burst through the back door at La Divina, a no-frills Mexican market and taco counter in suburban Buffalo, capping a two-year investigation into the labor practices of the restaurant’s owner, Sergio Mucino. According to the authorities, Mr. Mucino, 42, a legal permanent resident from Mexico City, along with two associates, had been harboring undocumented workers in homes around Buffalo, transporting them to jobs at his restaurants and paying them off the books.
Mr. Mucino was arrested at his home on Oct. 18. But two dozen of his workers were swept up in simultaneous raids that morning at all four of his restaurants.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/nyregion/immigration-workplace-raids-buffalo.html
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