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12/22:
Tacoma, WA: Corporate-Runs Immigration Jail Capacity Grows+More
Profit! 12/19:
ICE makes largest repatriation flight to Africa in two years (ICE
Press Release) 12/12: More Than 1,200 Arrested in Six-State Immigration Raid How to Locate/Help Immigrants Who Are Arrested/Detained Immigration officials have set up
a toll-free telephone number, 866-341-3858, for families
to contact for information on where their relatives are being detained.
Operators speaking English and Spanish are available. According to Democracy Now! radio show and other reports, at least 1,280 workers have been arrested in a series of immigration raids targeting meatpacking plants owned by the company Swift at Tuesday, December 12th (see the map). The raids took place in Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Iowa and Minnesota (1, 2) It marks the largest sweep of its kind ever against a single company. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff justified the raids saying many of the detained men and women were using false or stolen identities.
Interactive
Map of Swift Plants Nationwide Many immigrant activists had critized the raid. David Bacon, the labor journalists says Tuesday’s (12/12) immigration raids on meatpacking plants weren’t about curbing identity theft, they were about union-busting. Many also raise skeptical about the DHS/ICE's motivation of the raid. Many had pointed out that only small numbers of the workers who arrested were charged identity theft crimes. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has filed an emergency lawsuit in an effort to release the workers who they say were illegally detained and are being held without access to legal counsel. In Iowa, immigration lawyers have accused the federal government of holding the arrested workers at the military site Camp Dodge near Des Moines. Furthermore, many immigrants had been brutally terrified by the racist immigrant raids. On Marshalltown, IA, Breastfeeding baby's mom among those detained; at Hyrum, UT, immigrant raid puts families in limbo; Immigrant rights groups accuse ICE raids had violated immigrant's civil rights. More Reports on the raids The
Swift raids: State's gestapo-style revenge for the immigrants rights 12/16:
ICE's Swift Plant Raids Netted Only Poor Folks Caught Up in the
`War on Illegal Immigration' 12/15:
Immigration Sweeps Raise Questions About ‘Identity Theft’ 12/14:
Justice Deported 12/14:
Raids draw skepticism from both sides in immigation debate 12/13
Marshalltown, IA: Breastfeeding baby's mom among those detained 12/13
Hyrum, UT: Federal raid puts families in limbo 12/13:
Immigration raid roils Worthington, MI 12/14:
U.S. ICE RAIDS VIOLATE CIVIL RIGHTS 12/13:
Information for Immigrant Raids in Minnesota 12/14:
Raids in 6 states may be largest ever 12/12:
UFCW Seeks To Enjoin ICE Meatpacking Raids 12/14:
Swift tried to block raid 12/12:
Nebraska Police Refuse To Assist ICE In Swift Raid December 15, 2006 - There are several ways to help families affected by Swift raids December 15, 2006 - Lawyers still struggling to find whereabouts of detainees December 15, 2006 - Swift officials complained about Basic Pilot four months ago December 14, 2006 - Raid hit local businesses differently December 14, 2006 - Area activists call for support December 14, 2006 - Woman worries for new husband taken in ICE raid December 14, 2006 - Greeley Human Relations Commission might give $2,000 for families hurt by raid December 14, 2006 - Union files complaint on behalf of workers December 14, 2006 - Identity theft victim describes years of financial problems December 14, 2006 - ICE raids pose continuing questions on illegal immigration reform December 14, 2006 - Service agencies field more calls to help December 14, 2006 - Stress still lingers in schools after ICE raids December 14, 2006 - Coalition: Raids violate civil rights, terrorize families December 14, 2006 - Swift operating but below normal levels December 13, 2006 - They're trying to make an honest living December 13, 2006 - Raid shines glaring light on illegal immigration December 13, 2006 - We need solutions for guest-worker jobs 10/18: Bush Signs the Detainee Bill - Welcome to Martial Law? BUSH SIGNS THE
MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT: CCR CALLS IT A BLOW TO DEMOCRACY AND THE
CONSTITUTION
The new law strips the right of non-citizens to seek review of their detention by a court through the filing of a writ of habeas corpus, the venerated legal instrument that for centuries has protected people from arbitrary detention, disappearance and indefinite detention without charge. The Act is also meant to erase the hundreds of habeas corpus petitions that CCR and others have brought on behalf of many of the 450 men being held at Guantánamo Bay, a move already once denied by the Supreme Court. >> Read Articles, Analysis: 10/17: Detainee
bill a step backwards (Denver Post Opinion) 10/17 Civil Rights Attorney
Lynne Stewart Sentenced to Listen to Democracy Now! Radio Report 9/22: Feds' raids spread fear among immigrants (24,000 had arrested so far!) FEDERAL AGENTS are carrying out raids and roundups in immigrant communities across the U.S., spreading fear and sending some migrant workers fleeing. In three California towns--Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Hollister--Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents rounded up 107 people in two days in early September. Immigration lawyers in the area have been swamped with people trying to help relatives caught up in the sweeps, but nearly half of those detained were deported within 24 hours, making it difficult for them to assert even the basic right to have their cases heard before an immigration judge. Elsewhere, raids swept up 90 people in the Minneapolis/St.
Paul metropolitan area, 55 people in West Michigan and 34 in Colorado's
Roaring Fork Valley. Of those arrested, most came from Mexico, but
people from many other countries--including Guatemala, El Salvador,
India, Ethiopia and others--were also picked up. >>
read 6/14, 2006: A New Wave of Immigrant Crack Down On the Way? On mid-June, a wave of ICE immigrant sweep targeting 'criminal' undocumented immigrants--the so-called "Operation Return To Sender" had arrested over 2,100 immigrants. While the Congress' immigration debate had been cool down for little, a semi-covert immigrant arrests had been picking up, and the Government want to label all "Illegal Aliens" are "criminal" to justify their racist anti-immigrant campaigns. 6/14: US sweep nets nearly 2100 immigrants 6/18 San Diego, CA: Latest on "Operation Return to Sender" Police/ICE Raid Against Immigrants 6/18 San Diego, CA: Immigration Sweep Brings Fear to Community 6/23: AZ GOP candidate's call for labor camp rebuked Also, on the Congress.. 6/26: Congress may yet move on immigration 6/20:
Terrible immigrant voting bill (HR 4844 FEDERAL ELECTION INTEGRITY
ACT OF 2006) |
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