Last week I interviewed William Morris of the Next Century Foundation. They are involved in conflict resolution in places such as Gaza, Iraq and also facilitate track 2 dialogues, for example arranging confidential discussions between Hamas and people who publically claim they’re not/ cannot talk to them. These meetings are a way of initiating [...]
Posts under ‘Immigrant rights’
Henry Cejudo, son of undocumented Mexican immigrants, wins Olympic gold
From Steve Earle’s City of Immigrants
Livin’ in a city where the streets are paved
With good intentions and a people’s faith
In the sacred promise a statue made
Livin’ in a city of immigrants
All of us are immigrants
Every daughter, every son
Everyone is everyone
All of us are immigrants
Everyone
Tip: Drinking Liberally in New Milford
Immigration Alert: Invasion of the frostbacks
There’s over 20,000 of them in New York City alone, bringing bizarre food customs with them (french fries with gravy and cheese curds?), taking highly skilled jobs from Americans, artfully blending in with the populace. Oh the horror. If this peril is not stopped they might attempt to make curling a national sport here.
Yes, Canadians [...]
Anti-Minuteman protest. S.F. yesterday
Photo from Steve Rhodes’ photostream on Flickr.
IndyBay has reports and more photos. Counter-protesters greatly outnumbered Minutemen.
270 illegal immigrants sent to prison
This is a major escalation of tactics by the Bush Administration, jailing them first, then deportation, rather than just deportation.
Charges may be filed against the company who hired them. We’ll see if the company owners go to prison too.
Choctaw denied Medicaid because she can’t prove she’s a US citizen
Further proof, if any be needed, that the “immigration policy” of the US is a dismal failure and arguably run by lunatics.
‘Virtual fence’ isn’t
The BushCo plan to build a highly automated “virtual fence” at the US - Mexico border is now years behind schedule because, well, all their ballyhooed technological spying devices don’t work.
Software integration issues stymied a timely launch.
In the past, other glitches–including lags in radar information displaying in command centers and newly deployed radars being activated [...]
Drivers licenses for the undocumented
Security expert Bruce Schneier gives several reasons why undocumented workers should be allowed to get drivers licenses. Among the reasons, 1) state driver’s license databases contain much data on a person including photos and thus can aid law enforcement, 2) a state DMV does not have the resources to validate citizenship quickly and accurately, 3) [...]
Immigration issue killed Romney in Florida
McCain favors immigration reform, Romney doesn’t. Republican Hispanics in Florida went for McCain by a huge margin.
Hartford CT passes pro-immigrant policy
The resolution, which passed unanimously requests
that law enforcement officers in the city not “exert effort on behalf of federal agents to unearth undocumented residents” who live in Hartford.
From the resolution itself
RESOLVED, That the Mayor assist the Chief of the Hartford Police Department in developing policies that do not hinder the police from properly carrying out [...]
There is no immigrant crime wave
There is nothing wrong with having a debate about immigration. But it is deplorable to falsely stereotype and malign millions of law-abiding people because of one’s desire for a particular outcome in that debate.
New Haven passes bill to give ID cards to the undocumented
Federal agents then immediately staged an immigration raid.
The mayor of New Haven says the raid is retaliation for the city passing a law designed to give the undocumented a way to provide ID and open bank accounts, calling the raids a “symbolic act of intimidation.”
ICE, in their usual thuggish manner, entered the homes of the [...]
The Minutemen are self-destructing
Orcinus details how the Minutemen are turning on each other, splitting into warring factions, and, big surprise here, it’s all about where did the money go.
Kindergarten kids confront Minutemen
The Minutemen were harassing migrants at the Mexican Consulate in Santa Ana CA. Across the street at an elementary school, kindergarten kids stood on the jungle gym, fists in the air, chanting “Mexico, Mexico” !
Watch the YouTube video.
