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Perspective: By Raul Rodriguez New America Media  BERKELEY— As President Obama delivered his third State of the Union Address, the 11 sentences he dedicated to addressing my current immigration status did little to instill in me any more optimism than did similar statements from the last State of the Union… or the one before that. [...]

 By Marshall Fitz and Sarah Jane Glynn By next month Congress must extend the 2012 payroll tax cut to help boost our nation’s economic recovery. In 2011 this tax cut resulted in 122 million American households boosting their take-home-pay worth to the total tune of $120 billion. The extension and expansion of the payroll tax [...]

Story and Photographs by David Bacon OAXACA, MEXICO — The Oaxacan Institute for Attention to Migrants, and its director Rufino Dominguez, called for a new era of respect for the rights of migrants, in commorating the International Day of the Migrant in the Palacio del Gobierno, Oaxaca’s state capitol building. Representing the newly-elected state government, [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur  Pro-immigrant and civil liberties groups are stepping up the pressure against US Immigration and Customs Enforce-ment’s (ICE) Secure Communities program. Designed to remove immigrant lawbreakers from the United States, Secure Communities enlists local law enforcement agencies in a cooperative relationship with ICE in order to identify, hold and deport foreign [...]

 A Celebration Peace and Goodwill By Vivian Marlene Dunbar Sat. Dec. 10 20ll — People of two nations came joined together, at the border, to celebrate the Annual Posada Sin Frontiers. This event marked the 18thyear of people gathering at Friendship Park to share in this traditional holiday. This year’s them is ‘The Star Still [...]

Commentary: By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista    Much news has been made overAlabama’s tough immigration policy, HB 56, and how it has adversely affected the state’s agriculture economy by driving the immigrant labor out of the state.    Rather than scrap the law or make changes that could help the farmers, politicians would rather have officials [...]

By Leslie Layton chicoSol Editor’s Note: Victor Escobar said today he has received notification from ICE that his case will be reviewed at some apparently undetermined point; the Dec. 7 deadline for leaving the country has been lifted. Escobar said he can remain in the country until the review is completed. The best possible outcome, [...]

Perspective: By Julianne Hing ColorLines     Can GOP voters stomach a presidential candidate who talks about undocumented immigrants without calling them “illegals”?     Can the tea party base that’s driving the Republican Party handle a presidential hopeful who acknowledges the impossibility of deporting every one of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, [...]

By Valeria Fernandez New America Media     The contents of Maria Teresa Fuentes’ immigration file take up an entire table. Legal appeals, government letters carrying bad news, attorney advertisements clipped from newspapers, technical explanations of cryptic immigration laws, a Spanish prayer printed on blue paper… Collectively, they tell the story of a fight that’s been [...]

Commentary: By Angelica Salas    There are real problems and there are distractions. The former require our undivided attention and focus but it’s the latter that often make the morning headlines.    Recently, our partner and ally Presente.org, joined by some writers, took issue with a statement signed by CHIRLA and eighteen other organizations decrying [...]

By Vivian Marlene Dunbar     On Nov. 19, 2011, the Border Angels will hold their 25 anniversary celebration at the San Diego Centro Cultural de la Raza. The event marks a quarter of a century of defending and protecting immigrant rights on the US border and throughout America.     The Border Angels was founded by [...]

WASHINGTON — Rosibel “Rosy” Mancillas Lopez, a law student and advocate for immigration reform from San Diego, is the recipient of the 2011 Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award. The award is sponsored by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the anti-poverty program of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).     Mancillas Lopez, 24, [...]

Commentary: By Cong. José Serrano    In response to a new report out [last week] on families separated by deportation, I have to express my profound disgust with a system that has left more than 5000 citizen children in foster care because their parents were deported. These policies are un-American and deeply troubling.    The [...]

Commentary: By Scott Nicol    How does waiving the Endangered Species Act in Glacier National Park help secure the border?    Simple. It doesn’t.    But that doesn’t matter to Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah, author of the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (HR 1505). Bishop claims that U.S. Customs and Border Protection [...]

Story and Photos by David Bacon   If there’s one experience that Mexicans have in common more than any other, more even than hatred and repudiation of the mutual violence of the narcos and the government, it’s migration. In Oaxaca, 18% of its 3.7 million people have left for other parts of Mexico, and especially for [...]

Commentary: By Hector Balderas    An electrified fence. On the border. Designed to kill people. Along with “real guns with real bullets.”    This is the immigration “plan” recently proposed by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.    And he’s one of his party’s frontrunners.    There’s no question that immigration is a serious issue that [...]

Commentary: By Maribel Hastings Birmingham, Alabama – Illinois congressman Luis Gutiérrez has always said that the fight for immigration reform is a civil-rights issue for the immigrant community in the United States.    That community finds itself in dire straits in Alabama under its new law HB 56, which, even after a court ruling temporarily [...]