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2008 News Massive Racist ICE Immigrant Raids Across the Country at Post-May Day 2008 Mobilization!! 5/12 URGENT! Up to 700 Arrested in Iowa Raid!!!! 5/24: 900 nabbed in California state on immigration charges Federal immigration officers arrested more than 900 people in California on immigration violations this month, almost half of them in Northern California, officials said.
The immigration crackdown is filling county jails across the country with immigrants who have been torn away from their jobs and homes. Tens of thousands of arrested immigrants are bedding down in county jails while they await court dates and eventual deportation. Immigrants sedated without medical reason.
2007 News 3/30 Tucson, AZ: 2 dead in attack on migrants Gunmen ambushed nearly two dozen immigrants and smugglers packed into a pickup truck early Friday, killing two people and wounding at least one, authorities said >> Read More Racist Radio Show "Jersey Guy" 3/26 New Jersey: Boycoot Radio Host "Jersey Guys" and their sponsors! Please pass this list around not only in Jersey, but all over the country. They are doing "Operation La Cucha Gotcha." so I think we should do our own operation. Any company that sponsors bigots should be boycotted >> Read More 3/23 Newark, NJ: An Immigrant Segment by Radio's 'Jersey Guys' Draws Fire Craig Carton and Ray Rossi think mental illness
is hilarious and Asian-Americans are best mocked with sing-song
Chinese accents. The men, hosts of an afternoon radio show called
"The Jersey Guys" that is heard here on WKXW (101.5 FM),
favor adjectives for politicians that have to be bleeped out >>
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More 1 Year after History March 25 "Grand Macha" Los Angeles 3/24 Los Angeles, CA: Looking back, moving ahead Organizers of last year's huge immigrant rights rally in L.A. reflect on successes and goals as they ready for Sunday's anniversary events >> Read More 3/25: Year one of the immigrant rights movement Washington drags its feet while the rest of society adapts to a new reality >> Read More 3/25 Los Angeles, CA: Turnout low, but immigrant rallies hopeful Immigrant-rights rallies staged today to commemorate the anniversary of last year's Los Angeles march and to call for reform legislation were marked by low turnout and a counterdemonstration denouncing immigration >> Read More 2/22 Alert! Immigration raids sweep through SoCal eateries! In a nationwide sweep across 17 states and the District of Columbia, immigration officials descended on popular eateries like Hard Rock Café and Planet Hollywood, arrested almost 200 undocumented immigrants working for a janitorial company and filed criminal charges against its top three officials. >> Read More 2/22/07 New York, NY: Report from NYU Counter College Republicans’ “Find the Illegal Immigrant” event Hundreds of other New York University
(NYU) students, their allies, and NYU IMC contributors to protest
the College Republicans’ “Find the Illegal Immigrant”
event 2/20: DOJ audit found anti-terror case data flawed Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said >> Read More 2/21: Using Anti-Immigration Hysteria to Promote the Anti-Choice Agenda? Today’s immigration debate extends beyond the goal of limiting the rights and humanity of immigrants: It’s about controlling who may be considered an American >> Read More 2/20: Which Babies Are Real Americans? Yuki Lin , born on the stroke of midnight this New Year’s, became the winner of a random drawing for a national Toys “R” Us sweepstakes. The company had promised a $25,000 U.S. savings bond to the “first American baby born in 2007.” However, Yuki lost her prize after the company learned that her mother was an undocumented U.S. resident. Instead, the bond went to a baby in Gainesville, Georgia, described by her mother as “an American all the way.” >> Read More 3/10 New Brunswick, NJ: Conference - Making Comprehensive Immigration Reform real, fair and humane Our topics will include legalization, education issues, worker’s rights, due process, local ordinances, and the creation of an Office of Immigrant Affairs >> Read More 2/19 Vista, CA: Residents believe anti-immigrant fliers were tossed from plane Residents of a central Vista neighborhood said they watched dozens of fliers with anti immigrant messages fall from the sky like "snowfall" Thursday evening. Some said they believe the papers may have been chucked out of the airplane they also saw pass overhead at the same time >> Read More 3/3-4 Ithaca, NY: Northeast United Students Against Sweatshops Regional Conference at Cornell University >> Read More 2/20 New York, NY: Please endorse the following letter to support Ester Young and her immigrant struggles >> Read More 2/26-3/2 San Francisco, CA: Stop the Raids! No New Guest-Worker Plan! In response to the rash of raids that have been affecting our communities, Bay Area immigrant rights organizations are planning a week of action (2/26 to 3/2) and will protest in front of Homeland Security's office at 630 Sansome street in San Francisco every day from 11am to 1pm. >> Read More 2/13 Oaklnand, CA: Thieves preying on undocumented immigrants, police say Oakland is witnessing a rising crime trend of young "rat packs" preying on poor, often undocumented immigrants who carry their cash with them, according to a new police report >> Read More 2/18 Florida: U.S. MUSLIM COALITION CALLS FOR FASTING IN SOLIDARITY WITH DETAINED FLA. PROF A coalition of major Muslim organizations, today called for a worldwide "rolling fast" in support of Dr. Sami Al-Arian. Al-Arian is the former Florida professor who has been on a hunger strike since January 21 to protest his detention and treatment by federal authorities >> Read More 2/19 Greensboro, NC: Students Rally Against Anti-Arab Hate Crime Students from colleges across North Carolina rallied Feb. 2 against a recent hate crime committed against three Palestinian students at Guilford College >> Read More 1/20 Phoenix, AZ: New AZ Law Bar on Minutemen Proposed A proposed new law would make felons out of members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps -- and probably some neighborhood watch groups >> Read More 1/1/07 San Antonio, TX: Tell ICE: Release Palestinian Family NOW! The Arab American Community Coalition(theaacc.org) has just learned of an entire Palestinian family - the Ibrahims - being held in jail in Texas while waiting an unjustified deportation >> Read More 2006 News 12/22: Tacoma, WA: Corporate-Runs Immigration Jail Capacity Grows+More Profit! Back on Sept. 30 the Seattle Times that capacity of the Northwest Detention Center, the immigration jail built on a Tacoma Tideflats Superfund site, was expected to grow to 1,000 by January 2007 >> Read More 12/19: ICE makes largest repatriation flight to Africa in two years (ICE Press Release) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers returned from their largest deportation flight to Africa in two years after repatriating 99 Nigerian and Liberian nationals. This was a joint charter removal flight conducted with the government of Canada.... >> Read Mor 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 On The Recent Massive Raids AFTER NOVEMBER 7, 2006: The Mid-Term Elections and Immigration [The Immigrant Legal Resource Center] The November mid-term election was a repudiation of the Republican majority and a strong protest against the status quo -- whatever the status quo voters were registering their opposition to: the war in Iraq, Congressional corruption, the economy, or terrorism. And this mid-term election was largely focused on national, not local, issues. Immigration Not A Wedge Issue: Republican leadership tried, but failed, to make immigration the wedge issue that would ensure their continued control of Congress after aggressively promoting an enforcement-only measure (H.R.4437) as their solution to reforming our broken immigration system. In fact, exit polling as reported by the Washington Post found that fewer than one in three cited immigration 'as extremely important in influencing their decision, and they only narrowly favored Republican candidates. About six in 10 voters said that they believe illegal immigrants working in the United States should be offered a chance to apply for legal status'.. Democratic candidates won support from 61 percent of those who backed a path to citizenship, according to the poll. Election Results: As a result of this election, aÿsignificant number of candidates were defeated who, given their records, would have supported anti-immigrant and anti-immigration measures in the new 110th Congress that will convene next January. Who were they? Minuteman Randy Graf (R-AZ -- who ran for the seat of retiring Representative Jim Kolbe); J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), John Hostettler (R-IN -- the chair in the 109th Congress of the House Immigration Subcommittee), Chris Chocola (R-IN), Anne Northup (R-KY), Melissa Hart (R-PA), Bob Beauprez (R-CO -- who lost his race for Governor), Charles Taylor (R-NC), Gil Gutknecht (R-MN), and Richard Pombo (R-CA). Many of those defeated are members of the so-called Immigration Reform Caucus (headed by Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO)) whose ranks have been reduced by the results of this mid-term election. >> Read 11/10: Focus on Election Results [Immigration News Briefs] Voters Reject Many Anti-Immigrant Campaigns; Georgia: Republicans Gain, Voters Split; Arizona Vote: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Colorado Vote: More Ballot Initiatives; Election Results Elsewhere: A Mixed Bag >> Read 11/10: In Arizona, Minutemen lost more than House hopeful on Election Day [Arizona Daily Star] Despite the Minutemen's all-out effort to get Republican Graf into the congressional seat vacated by fellow Republican Jim Kolbe, their man lost his bid - in a Republican-dominated district - to Democrat Gabrielle Giffords >> Read Press Release: “The Surprise Winner of this Year’s Election Is…Comprehensive Immigration Reform” by the National Immigration Forum
Washington Times: Bush Eyes Democrats for Help on Amnesty
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
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