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Translation to Arabic | Translation to most European Languages 8/31: Entire US-Mexico Border to Be Guarded by Predator Drones By Taylor Barnes - The Christian Science Monitor The entire 2,000-mile US-Mexico border will be monitored by drones starting Wednesday when a new Predator drone begins flying from Corpus Christi, Texas, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.... 8/27: U.S. Immigration Agency Cancels Some Deportations By JULIA PRESTON - New York Times Immigration enforcement officials have started to cancel the deportations of thousands of immigrants they have detained, a policy they said would pare huge case backlogs in the immigration courts.... 8/19: Ex-Texas immigrant detention guard arrested By Associated Press The former resident supervisor at a central Texas immigrant detention camp has been arrested and charged for allegedly fondling female detainees en route to their deportations.... 8/21: Sign-On Letter: Tell President Obama to End Merger of Criminal Justice & Immigration Systems By National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) Arizona's SB 1070 brought the nation to a critical moment in its enduring, developing story as a nation of immigrants. We remain confident 1070 will eventually be struck down in its entirety by federal courts, and we are hopeful a new generation of local leaders will emerge to set things right in the Arizona state capitol. 8/15: Poll:59% of Americans support Immigration reform By MARK PENN It’s not news in this poll that Congress receives poor marks for its overall performance, given the state of the national economy, but what is a surprise is that solid majorities of the public and overwhelming majorities of D.C. elites want some kind of comprehensive immigration legislation passed now.... 8/16: The "Boss" Bruce Sprigsteen lashs out against anti-immigrant bashing By Agencies Bruce O'Hagan Springsteen may have been born in the USA but he has never forgotten where he came from. That would be Italy, Ireland and Holland where his forefathers sailed from to come to America.... 8/13: Congress Spends Another $600 Million for Border Militarization By ColorLines Magazine Now we know: Congress can pass an immigration bill in two days if it really wants to. The Senate just passed another $600 million for border security after Senators Chuck Schumer and Claire McCaskill proposed it last week.... 8/11: Why the GOP really wants to alter the 14th Amendment By Harold Meyerson - Washington Post As Lindsey Graham and his fellow Republicans explain it, their sudden turn against conferring citizenship on anyone born in the United States was prompted by the mortal threat of "anchor babies" -- the children of foreigners who scurry to the States just in time to give birth to U.S. citizens.... 7/8: Israel Grows Uneasy Over Reliance on Migrant Labor By New York Times Perched 22 stories above an affluent suburb of this prosperous seaside city, three Chinese construction workers inched their way along the arm of a crane last autumn and refused to budge. Facing deportation because of expiring visas, theirs was an act of desperation aimed at getting thousands of dollars in wages they claimed their Israeli employer had illegally withheld.... 7/4: We need More than Speeches-2 By Fidel "Butch" Montoya Until the President is able to put together a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders who are willing to work together to draw up a comprehensive immigration plan that addresses the immediate needs of over 11 million undocumented immigrants in our country, nothing will get done.... 7/4: We need More than Speeches-1 By Fidel "Butch" Montoya The debate over comprehensive immigration reform has continued to heat up throughout this summer ever since the governor of Arizona signed the Ill-conceived SB 1070 into law. The law allows for racial and ethnic profiling as a way to arrest, detain, and deport undocumented immigrants in Arizona. The controversial law has several lawsuits pending against the State of Arizona, including the United States Department of Justice preparing to file suit against Arizona as well.... NAHJ Urges Proper Immigration Terminology [ The National Association of Hispanic Journalists ] By The National Association of Hispanic Journalists As protestors march in the streets and debate intensifies in Congress over how to fix the nation’s immigration laws, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists calls on our nation’s news media to use accurate terminology in its coverage of immigration and to stop dehumanizing undocumented immigrants.... 7/3: Packing for Vacation? Remember the Sunscreen, Camera, and the ACLU Know-Your-Rights Card By ACLU Summer vacations to the Grand Canyon will require a little extra preparation this year. Along with your camera and hot-weather gear, make sure to pack a copy of the ACLU's new know-your-rights card (PDF), advising you of your rights if stopped by law enforcement or immigration authorities.... 7/2: California Endorses Same-Sex Couple Immigration Rights By http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/ The California State Senate passed a resolution with a 23-12 vote that included bipartisan support, endorsing a federal law that would permit U.S. citizens and permanent residents to sponsor a same-sex partner for immigration.... 6/29:Strong Bipartisan Support for DREAM Act By http://lawprofessors.typepad.com A poll reveals strong bipartisan support for the DREAM Act, federal legislation introduced by Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) that would provide undocumented students brought to the United States as children with the opportunity to earn permanent legal status upon meeting certain requirements.... 6/24: US to Deploy Drones to Shore Up Border with Mexico By Jordi Zamora - Agence France-Presse The United States plans to deploy two drone aircraft along the Texas-Mexico border as part of a new effort to stem organized crime and illegal immigration, Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said Wednesday [6/23]... 6/23: Obama Requests Money for Border Security By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD and MARC LACEY - New York Times The Obama administration is asking Congress for money to expand the Border Patrol by 1,000 agents, add scores of other federal law enforcement officers and deploy two more aerial drones as part of heightened security at the Mexican border... 6/23: SPIN METER: Defining 'border security' By Suzanne Gamboa - The Associated Press You wouldn't know it from the public debate, but the U.S.-Mexico border is more fortified now than it was even five years ago. Far more agents patrol it, more fences, barriers and technology protect it and taxpayers are spending billions more to reinforce it... 6/27 Camilo Mejia: antiwar movement should build bridges to work with immigrant rights movement By Democracy Noew! I think we are all here because we want to participate in this gathering, in this open-space gathering, with other movements, because I believe that we, as antiwar activists, need to build bridges with other movements, because we’re not—we should not be a one-issue organization. We should not be—even movement-wide, we should not be a one-issue movement. I think that antiwar movements should build bridges to work with the immigrant rights movement. I think that we should be fighting poverty. I think that we should be fighting for equality. We should be fighting for all these things... 6/23: California lawmakers urged the state to boycott Arizona By Desert News A group of California lawmakers urged the state Wednesday to boycott Arizona over its tough new immigration law, placing the West Coast state on a growing list of government bodies considering an economic protest... 6/21: Obama v. Sen Kyl--Who is lying? By Jackie Calmes - New York Times President Obama and Senator Jon Kyl on Monday waged a “he said, he said” war of words, disputing what the president said about enforcing the nation’s borders in a private meeting with Mr. Kyl... 6/22: GOP facing dilemma on Arizona law By Alexander Bolton - The Hill Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and other GOP leaders are coming under pressure from the Republican grass roots to make Arizona’s immigration law a national campaign issue... 6/21: Neb. town votes to restrict undocumented immigration By Josh Funk -Associated Press Voters in the eastern Nebraska city of Fremont on Monday approved a ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants, the latest proposal in a series of immigration regulations taken up by communities around the country... Alto Arizona! A New Website In Response to Arizona Racist Anti-Immigrant Senate Bill 1070 By National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), http://www.ndlon.org, just launched a new website in response to the racist AZ bill SB 1070. The site is designed to provide information about SB 1070 and also offers users to easily send a customizable, automated online email to AZ Governor Jan Brewer to veto SB 1070. The site is called "Alto Arizona!" and is at http://www.altoarizona.com. It only takes a 2 minutes to send a message.... By NNIRR More than 800 federal, state and local agents descended April 15 on four Arizona communities - Nogales, Rio Rico, Tucson and Phoenix -- in one of the largest dragnet immigration enforcement operations conducted by the Obama Administration.... 4/17 Los Angeles, CA: The Anti-Nazis Protest Brought Solidarity and Questions By Anna Kunkin - LA Indymedia Center The Nazis came to Los Angeles and with it, some good and some bad news. The good news; the people can unify and show strength. The bad news; we have some work to do.... 4/17 Los Angeles, CA: Large Counter Protest Aganist Racist Nazi-KKK Rally! By Associated Press A white supremacist group rallied against illegal immigration in downtown Los Angeles Saturday as hundreds of counter-protesters gathered to shout them down in a tense standoff that included several arrests, thrown rocks and police in riot gear.... 4/8: Civil-Liberties Groups Object to Plans for ‘Gitmo North’ By Evan Perez - Wall Street Journal Civil-liberties and human-rights groups don’t like the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison for terror suspects, but they’re not thrilled about plans for “Gitmo North” either.... 4/7: Guantánamo in New York City By Madeleine Dubus - Campus Progress Muslim-American Fahad Hashmi has been imprisoned in solitary confinement for over two years awaiting trial.... 4/7: New Resources on Deportation and Removal By Immigration Advocates Network The Immigration Advocates Network is excited to announce the launch of a new library for advocates representing noncitizens in removal proceedings before the immigration courts and Board of Immigration Appeals.... 4/2: Cuba Central comment on Obama at Gloria Estefans' home By Center for Democracy in the Americas According to news reports, President Barack Obama will travel to Miami, Florida later this month for a fundraiser at the home of Gloria Estefan, where couples will pay $34,500 in donations to the Democratic National Committee for the privilege of attending.... 3/31: UNHCR report highlights differences in the way EU countries assess asylum applications By Concerned Migrants Le Haut Commissariat aux Réfugiés publie une étude montrant des différences sensibles dans le traitement des demandes d'asile en Europe. Le rapport "Improving Asylum Procedures" porte sur une enquête dans 12 pays de l'UE ( Belgique, Bulgarie, République Tchèque, Finlande, France, Allemagne, Grèce, Italie, Pays-Bas, Slovénie, Espagne, et Royaume-Uni) sur les modalités d'application de la directive "Procédures d'asile" de 2005, à travers l'analyse de 1000 cas individuels et décisions prises, de multiples entretiens de demandeurs d'asile et d'interviews du personnel des offices nationaux de demandes d'asile, de juges, d'avocats, etc. 4/2: Mentally disabled SB man held for 4 years freed By Joe Nelson, Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO - A mentally disabled man who had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for four years was released to the custody of his family Wednesday. 3/27:ICE officials set quotas to deport more illegal immigrants+ICE nasty denial By Spencer S. Hsu and Andrew Becker Seeking to reverse a steep drop in deportations, U.S. immigration authorities have set controversial new quotas for agents. At the same time, officials have stepped back from an Obama administration commitment to focus enforcement efforts primarily on illegal immigrants who are dangerous or have violent criminal backgrounds. 3/22 New York, NY: New York May Day reborn By Libero Della Piana May Day - International Workers Day - was, of course, born in the U.S.A. But while the Haymarket events occurred in Chicago, the largest and perhaps best known May Day celebrations in the U.S. were historically in New York City. Unions, workers, their families and more traditionally marched together to honor working people. 3/21: U.S. may expand use of its prison in Afghanistan By David S. Cloud and Julian E. Barnes Los Angeles Times Reporting from Washington — The White House is considering whether to detain international terrorism suspects at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, senior U.S. officials said, an option that would lead to another prison with the same purpose as Guantanamo Bay, which it has promised to close. 3/22: Immigration Reform: We Need a Better Alternative By David Bacon Oakland, California - Sens. Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham announced Thursday their plan for immigration reform. Unfortunately, it is a retread, recycling the same bad ideas that led to the defeat of reform efforts over the last five years. In some ways, their proposal is even worse. 3/19: Chinese report documents human rights disaster in the United States By WSWS On March 13, China’s Information Office of the State Council published a report titled, “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009.” 3/18: Bakersfield, CA: Feds raid downtown boutique By JOHN COX, Californian staff writer Federal agents raided a new women's boutique downtown Thursday as part of what a government spokeswoman called an ongoing criminal investigation. 2/16: NY Times: In Arizona, a Stream of Illegal Immigrants From China By STEPHEN CEASAR TUCSON — The unforgiving terrain of the Sonoran Desert, south of here, whose searing summers and frigid winters claim hundreds of lives each year, has long been a favored avenue of entry for illegal immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries. But in the last year, the authorities say, smugglers have increasingly capitalized on a much more lucrative business — trafficking Chinese citizens into the United States. 2/25: GOP lawmaker's bill targets 'sanctuary cities' By Stephen Wall, Staff Writer A Republican state lawmaker has introduced a bill seeking to bar "sanctuary cities" from sending suspected illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds to other counties. 3/2: Nigeria: UNHCR resettled refugees to USA. By Prince R.A.Adegoke Fusigboye As they are doing on earth, so also they do in heaven. The refugees predicaments in Africa and in some other parts of the world are practically similar. 3/8: Mexican immigrant gets baby back from state By Associated Press JACKSON, MISS. — A Mexican immigrant walked out of the Mississippi Supreme Court on Friday holding the daughter who had been taken from her by state officials in 2008, when advocates say she was accused of being an unfit mother because she doesn't speak English. 2/3: Riverside Border Patrol shifts focus, union and community activists say By DAVID OLSON A year after a U.S. Border Patrol sweep of a Riverside day-labor site unleashed street protests and condemnations by immigrant-rights groups, the Riverside Border Patrol office may have shifted tactics. 2/1: Obama beef up militization the border/anti-immigrant policy in 2011 budget By Meredith Simons The Department of Homeland Security unveiled a $56.3 billion budget Monday that includes funding for the virtual border fence, E-Verify, and an increase in the number of border patrol officers and intelligence analysts along the southern border. 1/18: NY Times: Guatemala Protests Arrest of 3 in Florida Over Passports By JULIA PRESTON The Guatemalan government has issued a public protest after three Guatemalans were arrested this month by immigration agents at a Federal Express office in Florida, when one of the immigrants went to pick up a package containing his newly issued Guatemalan passport. 1/27: Projo: Alleged police brutality victim faces deportation By Gregory Smith The U.S. government is moving to deport Luis Mendonca, 20, of Pawtucket, the man who is at the center of investigations of alleged brutality by the Providence police, according to his lawyer. 1/27: 2/19-21 Herndon, VA: Shut Down The Racist American Renaissance Conference!! By SiuHin Beginning on Monday, January 18, a campaign to call the Dulles Airport Westin generated so many calls that the hotel assigned someone to deal with the complaints. Initially, the situation was promising. The Westin promised us that it was going to cancel the contract with the America Renaissance group, also known as the New Century Foundation. By the end of the day, numerous individuals left messages, made complaints and the Sales Director, David Catalan (sp?), stopped answering his phone nor did he return voicemails. 1/15: Haiti Didn't Become a Poor Nation All on Its Own -- The U.S's Hidden Role in the Disaster By Carl Lindskoog In the hours following Haiti's devastating earthquake, CNN, the New York Times and other major news sources adopted a common interpretation for the severe destruction: the 7.0 earthquake was so devastating because it struck an urban area that was extremely over-populated and extremely poor. Houses "built on top of each other" and constructed by the poor people themselves made for a fragile city. And the country's many years of underdevelopment and political turmoil made the Haitian government ill-prepared to respond to such a disaster. 1/19: Homeless Haitians Told Not to Flee to U.S. By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. MIAMI — America has a message for the millions of Haitians left homeless and destitute by last week’s earthquake: Do not try to come to the United States. 1/21: Retired 3-star: U.S. should take Haiti refugees By Cain Burdeau - The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who was credited with restoring order in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, is calling on the United States, and in particular the governors along the Gulf Coast, to offer refuge to the most vulnerable Haitians affected by the deadly Jan. 12 earthquake. 1/22: ICE SWAT team breaks up hunger strike protest by immigration detainees in NY By NINA BERNSTEIN Agents in riot gear from Immigration and Customs 1/8: C-M-R REPORTS : African migrants riot over 'racist' attack in Italy By Campaign For Migrants Rights Several people have been injured in rioting that broke out in southern Italy after an attack on immigrant farm workers by local youths. 1/13: 1/12 URGENT! Strong 7.1 Quake Hits Haiti, Hospital Collapses! By SiuHin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A major earthquake in Haiti prompted a tsunami watch for parts of the Caribbean, including the impoverished nation, neighboring Dominican Republic, Cuba and the Bahamas, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said on Tuesday. By Stephen Lemons In a conversation this morning via phone, Tucson native and rock legend Linda Ronstadt denounced Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of tyranny in Maricopa County and promised to march alongside thousands of activists planning to converge on Phoenix this Saturday, January 16 for a National Day of Action, which will include a walk to Arpaio's jails and a rally and concert afterwards. 1/15: City Hospital Chief Calls for Coverage of Immigrants By KEVIN SACK The leader of New York City’s massive public hospital system warned this week that the health care bills in Congress would burden safety net hospitals by failing to provide coverage for uninsured immigrants while also reducing federal payments for indigent care. 12/27: LAPD Checkpoints: Today and next Saturday! Spread the word! By Ron Gochez Union del Barrio makes the call to all working class people in general and to Raza in particular to educate and organize in our communities to defend ourselves from these racist police/sheriff checkpoints that are strategically placed in predominantly Raza and African communities. They know that many in our community are undocumented so they capitalize on this by attacking our neighborhoods with these checkpoints to legally steal our people's vehicles! We call on the Raza and African community to continue to join, organize and build together to combat these attacks that see both of us as the enemy! 12/31: New figures show (another) drop in Mexicans coming to the US By Sara Miller Llana Staff writer The number of Mexicans leaving the country to go abroad in the third quarter of this year dropped nearly 10 percent from the same period last year and fell about 40 percent compared to the number in 2007, as the recession in the US continued to discourage would-be immigrants. 1/1: For Ailing Illegal Immigrants, Return Home Brings No Relief By KEVIN SACK EJIDO MODELO, Mexico — On the two-hour bus rides from her village on Lake Chapala to a dialysis clinic in Guadalajara, Monica Chavarria’s thoughts would inevitably turn to the husband and son she left behind in Georgia. 1/2: Undoc. Student Will Walk to DC to Seek Immigration Reform By Jason Kane writes for TC Palm: The 26-year-old from Indiantown has been forced to withdraw from Kaplan University and was denied scholarships at a seminary. And if pending court proceedings don’t go his way — he’ll also be heading back to Mexico. 12/10: AP: New migrants boosting cities By HOPE YEN (AP) WASHINGTON — A steady flow of new immigrants is providing a late-decade population boost to major metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Miami, New York and Los Angeles, whose states are seeking to stem declines before the 2010 census. 12/11: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: Report blasts Obama's record on immigration By Stephen Wall, Staff Writer The Obama Administration has failed in its efforts to secure the border and enforce immigration laws, an anti-illegal immigration group said in a report released Wednesday. 12/14: Guilty plea by ex-ICE agent shocks many: guilty of drug trafficking By Robert Anglen Richard Cramer was first a foot soldier and then a leader in the war on drugs. He once ran the Nogales office of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement and was twice assigned as an attache to Mexico. 12/17: Pennsylvania Burning: Feds Levy Charges In Immigrant Killing and Police Cover-Up By Brian Levin, J.D. The United States Department of Justice announced a sweeping set of indictments levied by a federal grand jury connected to a racially motivated killing and alleged police corruption in Shenandoah, PA. The indictments handed down December 10 were released today. Among those charged are two former high school football players and various police officers, including Shenandoah's police chief. Shenandoah is a small town approximately 60 road miles from Allentown in the eastern coal-mining region of the state. The area, previously nearly all white, has seen an increase in Latino immigration over the last decade. The case was featured in a CNN documentary , Latino in America, which aired earlier this year. 12/19: Fernando Suarez del Solar - Nobel Prize for Peace???? By Fernando Suarez del Solar, Founder & Director Dear Mr. President: I know you may never read these words and even if you did they would not change your decision to send more young Americans to the war in Afghanistan. But, as the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Jesús Alberto Suárez del Solar who died on Marcy 27, 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, I consider it my moral duty to share my thoughts with you today. 12/11: Feds Tighten Guest Worker Departures By SiuHin In a pilot project, the Department of Homeland Security’s US Customs and 12/15: Bad PR Pitch: Stereotyping Black & Latino Shopping By Luke Visconti I received a public relations pitch from a well-known "multicultural" agency. I've sanitized the pitch to avoid embarrassing the guilty, but there's a good underlying lesson for all companies to be sensitive to. Here's my response to the PR agency pitch person: 12/16: The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's "Softer" Immigration Enforcement 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 was gone, and not just that. 12/1-2: National Call-in for National Housing Trust Fund Money By SiuHin Please call your Representative and both of your Senators on December 1 or 2. Please ask your networks to do the same. Tell them you want at least $1 billion for the National Housing Trust Fund before Congress adjourns later in December. Urge them to support any bill moving through the House or Senate that contains money for the NHTF. By Leslie Berestein Thousands of crosses have been installed on the Mexican side of the border fence to protest the U.S. government's Operation Gatekeeper enforcement program. (John Gibbins/Union-Tribune) 12/2: Obama aunt hurt by self-imposed exile from 1st family due to immigration status By RODRIQUE NGOWI BOSTON - President Barack Obama's aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish that she no longer has contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing. By A New Class of Workers on a Global Scale Protestors, approximately six million strong, took to the streets this spring in a movement so large it surprised the politicians, the capitalists, and even the protestors themselves. It was something completely and obviously new – qualitatively new. 12/4: Obama Administration's Immigration Policy By John Steinbach Barack Obama won the presidency in no small part because he captured a large majority of the immigrant vote, especially that of Latinos. Obama's promise of "comprehensive immigration reform" played an important role in that victory. Yet, instead of prioritizing immigration reform, President Obama has escalated several controversial enforcement initiatives. As this tighter enforcement takes hold, many in the immigrant and human rights movement still remain hopeful about prospects for reform including a path to citizenship for out-of-status immigrants and passage of the Dream Act. 12/4: Stolen Birthright: The U. S. Conquest and Exploitation of the Mexican People By Richard D. Vogel A ghost from the past is haunting America. But this ghost is no phantasm—it is the emergence of millions of Mexicans and Mexican Americans, descendants of the people who were dispossessed of their land and denied their birthright in the southwestern United States, who are growing in power and hungering for justice. 12/4: Labor Pains: Rancho Cucamonga day laborers beautify a historic site—and dig up the past By Diego DuBois Frequently, there are not many prospects for work. More often than not, toilers with calloused hands and empty lunch coolers shuffle home empty-handed. On those days when an employer is looking for an extra hand, there are other risks. There is no guarantee of workplace safety or of medical care in case of an injury. There's not even any guarantee of payment. 11/30: Seattle immigrant settles brutality case for $48k against border patrol By Mike Carter MOUNT VERNON — The federal government has paid an illegal immigrant $48,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging he was assaulted and illegally arrested by two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents while waiting for his 6-year-old son at a bus stop. 11/28: At This Holiday Season, Please Support Public Petition to Pardon Qing Wu By SiuHin We, the undersigned residents of the State of New York, hereby petition Your Honorable the Governor of New York David A. Paterson to grant Qing Wu a pardon of wrong doings committed over 14 years ago, so as to stop an unjust deportation proceeding by the United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement (“ICE”). 11/21: DUI CHECKPOINTS: Carson & Manhattan Beach By Daily Breeze staff reports Where they'll be 11/25: Pro-immigration group America's Voice calls on Lou Dobbs to run for president By KELLY FINCHAM America's Voice has urged Lou Dobbs to run for President. 11/27: Immigration reform activists diversifying ranks By Concerned Migrants WASHINGTON (AP) -- Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement. 11/27: Hostility And Racism Runs Rampant In Morocco Against Migrant Blacks. By Concerned Migrants The Morocco immigration laws and policies that exempted the Asians would-be migrants, these includes: Pakistan, Indian, Bangladesh, Afganistan and Palestinian, into europe in an irregular manners from being arrested should also exempt the sub-saharan Africans too because, the mission of both sides is getting into europe illegally. This is partiality and injustice. 11/24: Obama's Failure to Close Guantanamo by January Deadline Is Disastrous By Andy Worthington President Obama's admission in China that he will miss 12/6: Los Angeles, CA: Chinese-American Historical Day Now CA Law+Reception By sallyzhu Please join California State Assemblymember Mike Eng, Yee Fow Museum, and other state and national organizations in commemorating the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the recent passage of ACR 76 into Californian law. ACR 76 acknowledges December 17 as a “Day of Inclusion” in recognition and appreciation of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. This landmark repeal of anti-Chinese immigration has led to the priceless contributions of all immigrants to the greatness of the United States and especially to our great state of California. 11/25: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: A Bell Tolls for Justice By Ciudad Juarez News A bell now rings out for justice from the besieged heart of what is 11/18: Great News: Settlement in USCIS lawsuit could accelerate citizenship applications By Andrew Edwards and Stephen Wall, Staff Writers Carmen Reyes is anxious to become a U.S. citizen. 11/18: More on the CIS-FBI "clogged system" settlement By Juan C. Garcia Immigrants who waited for years for their citizenship applications to be processed due to extraordinary backlogs will finally have the chance to become Americans and enjoy the privileges of citizenship, under the terms of a settlement announced today between the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the National Immigration Law Center, the ACLU of Southern California, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson. 11/17: Lee Siu Hin: Journey to My Home 2009-Obama Goes to Beijing (Part Six) By SiuHin Greeting from Zhuhai, China..middle of my China-U.S. bi-national solidarity working trip. 11/14: Anti-Immigrant 'Tea Party' Confronted in St. Paul By Staff St. Paul, MN - On November 14, immigrant rights activists in the Twin Cities confronted a "tea party" rally of about 40 right wing anti-immigrant extremists at the Minnesota State Capitol. The anti-immigrant "tea party against amnesty" was in opposition to immigration reform legislation that may be introduced soon in the U.S. Congress, which might provide legalization for some undocumented immigrants. The tea party organizers oppose any legalization and instead support repressive mass deportations of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country. The anti-immigrant extremists gathered to hear speakers and held signs with messages such as "If You Are Illegal Go Home" and "Pack Their Sack and Send Them Back". 11/16: US unveils 'Guantanamo's evil twin' extended Bagram prison By from Citizens For Legitimate Government US unveils 'Guantanamo's evil twin' extended Bagram prison --'The Bagram prison resembled a concentration camp.' 16 Nov 2009 Journalists have been allowed to inspect refurbished facilities at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, the largest US military hub in the region and home to a controversial prison. Al Jazeera's correspondent James Bays, who was among those who inspected the facilities on Sunday, said Bagram, unlike its Guantanamo counterpart, was clearly not going to be shut down soon. "The new prison wing cost some $60 million [for KBR] to build ..." Bays said. "But we were not shown the detainees. Human-rights lawyers say that, while the environment for the prisoners may be changing, their legal situation is not ... not having been charged. Nor has any civilian lawyer ever been allowed inside." Omar Dighayes, a former detainee at Bagram and Guantanamo Bay, said the Bagram prison resembled a concentration camp. "People were beaten, dragged, tortured in it," he told Al Jazeera. 11/16: Ordeal of Australia's child migrants By Nick Bryant The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect. 11/16: Ordeal of Australia's child migrants By Nick Bryant The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect. 11/14: Chief Bratton: LAPD Fights Crime, not Immigration By Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Police Department Fights Crime, not Immigration 11/7: Patchogue, NY: After Immigrant Killed in NY, Others Tell of Abuse By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) -- The high school buddies who trolled the streets looking for Hispanics to attack called it ''beaner hopping.'' 11/7 US-Mexico Border: Migrant Shelter Besieged By SiuHin Lee A Catholic Church-run migrant shelter in the northern Mexican state of 11/9: Honduras deal collapses, and Zelaya's backers blame U.S. By Tyler Bridges CARACAS, Venezuela — A U.S.-brokered accord that was supposed to return ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to power has collapsed and his supporters pinned much of the blame Monday on the Obama administration. 11/5: Legislative Update (NIF) By National Immigration Forum We have just passed the anniversary of the 2008 election-one that was marked by high expectations for change. What we have learned in the interim, on the legislative front, is that there are still too many Members of Congress who are invested in the status quo on a range of issues. Tackling the big challenges that face the country has for too long been a job for the next Congress, and it is unclear whether there are enough solutions-oriented members in this Congress to break out of the old pattern. 11/10: America`s Shame: Hatred of Illegal Immigrants By BlackSun “You lie!” shouted Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) at President Obama, in what Bill Maher compared to an episode of Tourette syndrome. Wilson’s unprecedented breach of legislative decorum concerned the President’s statement to a joint session of Congress that illegal aliens would not receive free health care under reform legislation. Why should the mere suspicion of a compassionate stance toward aliens stir such a display of outrage? 11/11: Immigration: Reps protest killing of Nigerians in Italy, may order probe By From Terhemba Daka, Abuja WORRIED by the unending killing of Nigerians in foreign countries, the House of Representatives may tomorrow (Tuesday) debate a motion seeking to compel the Italian government to investigate the alleged murder of a Nigerian, Emmanuel Ngozichukwu Ajoku Benedict, by the Italian police. 11/8: Alan Bersin is at home on a daunting frontier By Sebastian Rotella The nominee to lead Customs and Border Protection sees an opportunity for 'huge change' even though Mexico's drug war has dramatically heightened tensions along the border. 11/8: Protestor Ana Rodriguez disrupts oath taking for new Lake Worth commissioner By WILLIE HOWARD LAKE WORTH — As newly elected City Commissioner Scott Maxwell took the oath of office this afternoon, Ana Rodriguez jumped up and confronted him about his stance on immigration while the crowd at city hall booed. | ||
