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September 2005 U.S.
Immigrant Alert! Newsletter
Published by National Immigrant Solidarity Network
URL: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Newsletter/Sep05.pdf
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In This Issue:
1. Immigrant Counter-Recruitment Campaign
2. Minutemen Watch
3. Border Migrant Deaths, August 15-31
4. DREAM Watch
5. Hurricane Katrina Impacts to the Immigrants
6. News, Updates from Immigrant Solidarity Network
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1)
Call
For Progressive Emergency Supports to the Victims!
For More Information please visit ActionLA's Hurricane Katrina Alert Page
Several Suggest Agencies To Donate Your Hurrican Katrina Relief Part 1 | Part 2
Volunteer Opportunities to Help Katrina Victims!
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Handful of Katrina Victims in Deportation
By SUZANNE GAMBOA
The Associated Press
Monday, September 19, 2005
WASHINGTON -- After heeding the Bush administration's call to seek help regardless of status, a handful of illegal immigrants who fled Hurricane Katrina have been ordered to appear for deportation hearings.
Three undocumented immigrants were met by immigration agents at the El Paso, Texas, airport when they were flown in from the Gulf Coast along with other evacuees, said Leticia Zamarripa, Immigration and Custom Enforcement spokeswoman in El Paso. A fourth person, a permanent legal resident, was questioned and released, she said.
The immigrants went through background checks and fingerprinting and were released with orders to appear for deportation hearings, Zamarripa said. They were allowed to go to other shelters in Texas, said Ouisa Davis, an attorney for one of the immigrants. She did not have details, including the date of the initial questioning.
In another instance, state troopers in West Virginia called in immigration agents on Sept. 4 when a woman alleged that she was sexually assaulted by another passenger on a bus carrying evacuees to Camp Dawson, ICE spokesman Dean Boyd said Monday.
The accused passenger and a companion, both from Central America, were taken into custody, Boyd said. When ICE officials interviewed the woman, she refused to press charges or testify. The accused immigrant denied her allegations. He and his companion remained in custody.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Homeland Security Department encouraged all storm victims, including illegal immigrants, to seek help. The appeal was made in English and Spanish.
The agency stopped short of assuring that information about immigration status would not be shared with law enforcement agencies _ a protection that was extended after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Senate Democrats have been pressing for such protection.
In the days after the hurricane, Mexican President Vicente Fox made a televised appeal, also in English and Spanish, urging Mexican nationals affected by the storm to seek help. He said U.S. authorities had assured his government that "those who were not documented at the time will not be subject to any pressure or persecution whatsoever."
The law enforcement actions have left at least one group concerned about lending its influence to the federal government's efforts to reach immigrants affected by the storm.
The White House was "actively communicating to us and the Spanish-language press that everyone could come forward," said Cecilia Munoz, vice president of policy for the National Council of La Raza, the largest U.S.-based Hispanic advocacy group.
"If federal authorities are using this as an enforcement opportunity, it creates a moral dilemma for us in how do we advise our constituents," Munoz said. "We are getting mixed signals."
Munoz said she supports law enforcement action when a crime has been committed.
On the Net:
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services: http://www.usccb.org/mrs/
Department of Homeland Security: http://www.dhs.gov
National Council of La Raza: http://www.nclr.org
2)
We Hired Our First Intern!
We just hired our first student intern for our 2005-2006 academic year,
her name is Cheung Ka Yan from the Smith College, Northampton MA. She's
major in Women's Studies, will be helping us Asian American immigrant
workers project and our fund raising programs. She had been working on
different community, labor and student-based organizations, includes:
Chinese Working Women's Network, Shenzhen, GD (People's Republic of China);
Chinese Staff & Workers Association, New York, NY; Safe Passage service
center for survivors of domestic violence, Northampton, MA; United Students
Against Sweatshops; Student Labor Action Coalition/ Students for Social
Justice and Institutional Change and Asian Students Association - Smith
College. Congratulations to Ka Yan!
We are still looking for several passionate and highly motivated college students to work with us at our Los Angeles, CA, Washington DC and New York City, please ally!
Tasks: Weekly community meetings with immigrant workers, outreach
and attend meetings, and working with immigrant projects with our local
partnership immigrant organizations, office stays are optional.
Length of the Internship: 10 months (Late-August 2005 - Mid-June,
2005)
Stipends: $1000.00 (will be paying every 5 months for $500 each),
plus transportation reimbursements if needed.
Qualifications: Prior experiences in non-profit and/or internship;
fluently in foreign languages (Chinese, Korean,
Vietnamese, Arabic or Spanish) will be a plus; people of color, college
students and/or women from the immigrant workers
community are encourage to apply.
Please send your resume with one recommendation letter to: Lee Siu
Hin e-mail: siuhin@aol.com tel: (213)403-0131
3) Sep 24-26 Washington D.C. Anti-War Mobilization
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UFPJ Sept. Mobilization: 3 Days of Peace &
Justice Actions
http://UnitedforPeace.org
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International ANSWER
http://www.internationalanswer.org
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http://www.septemberaction.org
Peace No War Network, ActionLA Coalition
and National Immigrant Solidarity Network are proud members of the UFPJ,
will be fully supports the September Mobilization and other actions in
Washington D.C. and across the country.
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