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Immigrant Advocates Say Immigration Enforcement Worse Under Obama
By Marcelo Ballvé New America Media Prominent immigrant advocates launched their most sharply worded public critique yet of the Obama administration’s immigration policy. Advocates who spoke at a press conference Monday in Washington, D.C. angrily pointed to statistics that showed a significant acceleration in immigration enforcement over President Bush’s last year, with over 387,000 immigrants deported since Obama’s [...]
Continue reading...New Bill May Save Undocumented Students From Deportation
Friday, February 26, 2010
By Paul Kim IExaminer On March 15, 2009, Alonso Chehade, an undocumented immigrant from Peru, was arrested at the US/Canada border for unlawful presence in the United States. After remaining in the detention center for two weeks, Chehade was later released with the assistance of his family, who posted a $7,500 bond to free him from prison. For [...]
Continue reading...Obama increases prosecutions of illegal immigrants while decreasing prosecution of other crimes
Friday, February 19, 2010
Commentary: By Patrick Osio Let’s play a Lou Dobbs type of poll: “Are you in favor of prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law any illegal alien who crosses the border even those who are entering for the first time and have no past criminal record?” If yes, the Obama administration is in full agreement with you. Thus [...]
Continue reading...California DUI Checkpoints Snag More Unlicensed Drivers than Drunk Ones
Friday, February 19, 2010
By Ryan Gabrielson California Watch Sobriety checkpoints in California are increasingly turning into profitable operations for local police departments that are far more likely to seize cars from unlicensed motorists than catch drunken drivers. An investigation by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley with California Watch has found that impounds at checkpoints in 2009 generated an estimated [...]
Continue reading...Stars and Angels Come Together to March for Immigrant Rights
Friday, February 5, 2010
By Mariana Martínez Immigrant Rights activist are currently participating in the fifth annual immigrant march, in the hopes of educating the public about the constant death of immigrants along the border and the urgent need for immigration reform. “It has been a year since Obama was elected to office—partly thanks to us—” said Border Angels president Enrique [...]
Continue reading...Estrellas y Angeles se Unen a la Marcha Migrante
Friday, February 5, 2010
Por Mariana Martínez Grupos de defensa a los derechos de los migrantes, se encuentran realizando ya la quinta Marcha Migrante con la cual buscan llamar la atención pública hacia la muerte de migrantes en su intento de cruzar la frontera y la apremiante necesidad de una reforma migratoria justa y humana. “El 20 de enero se cumplió [...]
Continue reading...Hispanic Vote Could Punish Democrats on Immigration Reform
Friday, February 5, 2010
By Diego Graglia Feet in Two Worlds The main Congressional supporter of progressive immigration reform apparently is fed up with President Barack Obama’s lack of action on the issue. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D.-Ill.), who last year introduced an immigration reform bill in the House, is even calling for Latinos to punish Democrats and Republicans alike at the polls [...]
Continue reading...New Report Details California Immigrant Contributions
Friday, January 29, 2010
State-Wide and Regional Data Show High Rates of Entrepreneurship, Significant Contributions to Local GDP, and Large Potential Voter Populations The California Immigrant Policy Center released a new report detailing California immigrants’ contributions to the state. “Looking Forward: Immigrant Contributions to the Golden State” features state-wide statistics as well as local data from six key [...]
Continue reading...Massachusetts Election: Death Knell for Immigration Reform?
Friday, January 22, 2010
By Elena Shore New America Media Tuesday’s historic election in Massachusetts could spell trouble for Democrats, but advocates of immigration reform say it’s not over yet. By capturing the seat held by former Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy who passed away last summer, Republican Scott Brown brings a different vision to the historically blue state. While Kennedy was known [...]
Continue reading...Federal Grand Jury Targets ‘Tough-Guy’ Sheriff
Friday, January 15, 2010
By Valeria Fernández New America Media PHOENIX, Ariz. — America’s self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing a grand jury investigation into allegations of abuse of power. The Maricopa County sheriff has made national headlines because of his immigration sweeps on Latino neighborhoods and a pending investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into racial profiling allegations. But that’s [...]
Continue reading...La Corte Suprema: Decisiones Sobre Inmigración
Friday, January 8, 2010
Autor-Kevin Johnson Traducido por: Marvin F. Pineda y Jose Cervantes En el término judicial 2008-2009, la Corte Suprema decidió cuatro casos relacionados a inmigración. Es raro que la corte decida esta cantidad de casos relacionados a inmigración en un término jurídico; esta cantidad de casos indica que el tema de inmigración es importante para la corte como [...]
Continue reading...Mass Firings – The New Face of Immigration Raids
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
By David Bacon The Progressive Ana Contreras would have been a competitor for the national tai kwon do championship team this year. She’s 14. For six years she’s gone to practice instead of birthday parties, giving up the friendships most teenagers live for. Then two months ago disaster struck. Her mother Dolores lost her job. The money for classes [...]
Continue reading...Obama y el Congreso ante la encrucijada de la reforma migratoria
Friday, December 18, 2009
Comentario: Por Maribel Hastings America’s Voice ¿Hay algún momento propicio para encarar una reforma migratoria con una vía de legalización? Usar el tema para acumular puntos políticos ha sido la norma por las pasadas décadas, tanto de parte de detractores como de algunos promotores, en medio de bonanza y de crisis económica. El presidente Barack Obama es la figura [...]
Continue reading...Congressional Mosaic Demands Immigration Reform ‘ASAP’
Friday, December 18, 2009
By Khalil Abdullah New America Media WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and co-sponsors of the newest legislative initiative on immigration reform entered the room in the Rayburn House Office Building, they were greeted by enthusiastic supporters. Shouts of “Si se puede” blended with simultaneous exhortations of its English equivalent, “Yes we can” issued from [...]
Continue reading...Janet Napolitano Predicts Immigration Reform in 2010
Friday, November 20, 2009
By Khalil Abdullah New America Media WASHINGTON — Timing is everything in the arts of war or politics, according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s Nov. 13 speech on the need for immigration reform. “Now, while everyone may agree that the status quo isn’t working, what everyone may not be aware of is how much the immigration landscape [...]
Continue reading...Migrant Memories Surround the Days of the Dead
Friday, November 6, 2009
Frontera NorteSur For Don Ines Antonio Resendiz, it was the winds of fate that whisked the young Mexican farmer to the United States. Like other residents of the small town of Cerrito in the Costa Grande region of Guerrero state, Resendiz’s livelihood was shattered when Hurricane Tara tore a path of destruction in November 1961. Stripped [...]
Continue reading...Todos tienen el derecho de pedir ayuda en una emergencia
Friday, November 6, 2009
Durante los incendios del Sur de California de octubre 2007, seis inmigrantes indocumentados huyeron de sus casas, sólo para encontrarse deportados a México. Dos parejas, una con tres niños, fueron arrestadas por agentes de la U.S. Border Patrol [Patrulla de la Frontera de EE.UU.] en el estadio Qualcomm de San Diego después de haber recibido un [...]
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