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War on immigrants

Jus tin time to implement their other strategy,comes a new warning from the Attorney General saying that,at some point,Al Qaeda maybe attacking the USA,and then they proceed to clarify what faces are going to be profiled next:Government sources have said in the past that El Shukrijumah,born in Saudi Arabia,[...]

Modern slavery

Salon comes again with an article on Bush’s immigration proposal,a plan that sounds as cheap labor for corporate interests that are Bush only concern:It is less the legalization of laborers than the organization and control of the labor supply,less an employee benefit than an employer advantage,less an expansion of workers’rights [...]

Immigration reform

The one thing I like about Bush’s immigration proposal is that it has elicited an incredible amount of skepticism in organizations that work for immigrant and refugees rights,and at the same time has annoyed the right,as I found at [...]

North Carolina and immigrants

Found,via Ed Cone,some comments about the poll that the N&O had about the immigrant population here in North Carolina. Elros,at Carolina Progressive,checks on the credentials of some “group that support immigration curbs”,and not so surprisingly,finds it allied with groups previously identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate [...]

At the border

This very sad tale of Hughes and Beate has relevance only because it happens to a DHS and his fiancée. But,come,on,boys and girls,it happens all the time!
Back when it was INS< they would detain anybody,based on whatever criteria they apply,interrogate without recourse to lawyers or outside contact,and finally made the detainee sign a document waiving their right to a trial and accepting that they tried to enter the country illegally or with illegal purposes. Basically,they were forced (tortured?) to confess to something that was only in the immigration’s official mind.
am not making this up. This happened to friends,acquaintances,family. This has been going on fro years,and nobody does anything nor does anybody care.
Unless,of course,she happens to be the fiancée of a former DHS agent.

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NIRR

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is issugin a report on DHS and its effect on immigrants and refugees:Human Rights &Human Security At Risk demonstrates that since immigration enforcement and services were placed within the new Department of Homeland Security just six months ago,abusive and discriminatory immigration enforcement has become [...]

Deportees

Showing how the INS has souped up their enfoircing policies,and basically denied the immigrants their rights to counsel and representation,this article about deportees and the plight of illegal workers to arrive here in the USA. The option is clear:starve in their country,making 1.20 at hour working for an American corporation,or [...]

Hispanics left behind

Hispanics are being left behind at an alarming rate:Only 16% Hispanic high schools students are likely to attend college.

Hispanic students are more likely to go to college part time than non-Hispanic blacks or whites. They are also more likely to attend community colleges,lured by cheaper tuition,more flexible schedules to accommodate outside jobs,and courses in fields like computer science and nursing,which offer a quicker path to a paycheck.

I once had to help some Hispanic kids at their school,and what I saw depressed me:The teachers would simply move the kids along with the rest of the class,but without paying attention to any particular developmental need,issues with parents,poor health,learning disabilities or the like:The children were attending school just because the law requires it,not because they were to derive any benefit from that.
And after a year,they were someone else’s problem.

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Bill O’Reilly said wetbacks

Did this guy just said that? Did he actually called Mexican nationals wetbacks?

We’d save lives because Mexican wetbacks,whatever you want to call them…

Fire him. Roast him,slowly,with the air coming from his own head. Fire him! Via Anil

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On the cover

I fail to see how this might be funny. The Onion:Migrant Worker Family Thrilled To See Selves On Cover Of The Economist

SAN CARLOS,TX?A family of Mexican migrant workers was thrilled to find its picture on the cover of the Jan. 25 issue of The Economist,vegetable farmhand,factory laborer,and fruit picker [...]