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VideoMock Graduates Lobby for Dream Act in D.C.
by Guest Columnist on June 23 2009, 2:34PM
By Sonia Guinansaca Today, June 23rd, 2009 youth around the nation are taking part in the National Graduation Day Ceremony in Washington, D.C. More than 500 students from all around the country are being mobilized to Capitol Hill, where they…
Topics: Immigration
ACORN and Al Sharpton Confront Phoenix Sheriff Arpaio
by Jonathan Adams on June 22 2009, 10:18AM
Over the weekend, groups gathered in Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s racist policing. Al Sharpton joined the voices calling attention to the civil rights violations against immigrants. via New America Media by Khalil Abdullah Today, on Juneteenth, a…
Topics: Immigration
Weekly Immigration Wire: Key Legal Battles in Fight for Immigrant Rights
by Guest Columnist on June 17 2009, 11:19AM
by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger While the United States’ legal system is founded on grand ideals like all humans being equal, the law is rarely as benevolent or efficient in practice, especially for immigrants. Different classes of people receive different…
Topics: Immigration
US Immigration Laws Created “Deportee Problem.” Real People Suffer the Stigma
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 17 2009, 9:18AM
The saying is widespread in Jamaica: “just like a deportee.” One might say of a beat up old car, “that thing is a deportee.” Something like a deportee is junk and this applies equally to inanimate objects and to…
Topics: Immigration
Speaking English a Requirement for Motherhood? Reunite Cirila Baltazar Cruz with her Baby
by Guest Columnist on June 15 2009, 5:00PM
by Cindy Von Quednow In Pascagoula, Mississippi, in November 2008, Cirila Baltazar Cruz gave birth to a baby girl. Soon after, her daughter was taken away from her because she could not communicate with the hospital attendants. Far away from…
Topics: Immigration
Why Deport Formerly Incarcerated Immigrants? Is the System Broken?
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 15 2009, 11:32AM
ColorLines magazine is in Jamaica this week investigating the devastating effect of American deportation policies on families. Check back for more updates soon. Christopher Johnson, 38, was deported from Washington, DC to Jamaica six weeks ago, after he finished…
Topics: Criminal Justice, Immigration
Hope in the Hopelessness of Deportation
by Julianne Hing on June 14 2009, 10:12AM
ColorLines magazine is in Jamaica this week investigating the devastating effect of American deportation policies on families. Check back for more updates soon. We’ve talked with a lot of deportees in Kingston since we arrived earlier this week. Even for…
Topics: Criminal Justice, Immigration
by Michelle Chen on June 8 2009, 9:00PM
Official attitudes toward immigrants across America are remarkably diverse, ranging from public embrace to stiff exclusion. If you happened to pass through Tennessee last week, you might have heard Republican lawmaker Joe Carr vigorously slamming the door on undocumented…
Topics: Immigration, Politics
UAFA Would Keep Shirley Tan with her Partner and Kids
by Gina Acebo on June 5 2009, 9:37AM
This is Shirley Tan, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA). UAFA would allow U.S. citizens and permanent residents to sponsor their same-sex partners for family-based immigration. Tan fled to the U.S….
Topics: Immigration, Politics, Video & Multimedia
by Michelle Chen on June 5 2009, 3:47AM
In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Justice Department clamped down on the right of immigrants to “effective” legal counsel. Essentially, the administration figured that a lawyer’s incompetence shouldn’t be grounds for holding up a deportation order in…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on June 3 2009, 4:42PM
Immigration and LGBT rights seem like two political third rails that wouldn’t cross in Washington. But a Senate hearing today discussed legislation that would elegantly fuse the two, by equalizing immigration law for same-sex partners. The Uniting American Families…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on May 29 2009, 4:59PM
Clinton-era welfare reform is perhaps best known for shoving people off the welfare rolls at a breakneck speed. A more subtle impact has been a drastic restriction on immigrants’ access to public programs. Currently, most immigrants are subject to…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on May 28 2009, 3:22PM
A new human trafficking indictment could be a preview into the prospects and limitations of immigration law enforcement under the new administration. A group of Missouri-based employers face allegations of importing immigrants for low-wage service jobs that amounted to…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on May 26 2009, 10:35PM
Nativist zealots may finally be coming around to the realization that they cannot stop immigrants from becoming a permanent part of the country’s social fabric. That must be why Nathan Deal has dreamed up another plan to keep foreigners…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on May 22 2009, 10:12PM
It’s not every day that the police admit that they don’t want to do their work, or that they’re bad at it. So it’s worth noting that the Police Foundation, a think tank focused “innovation and improvement in policing,”…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on May 22 2009, 5:03PM
Immigration court often involves lengthy legal disputes and tedious bureaucracy. At one downtown Los Angeles courthouse, however, officials have found an efficient way to cut through the red tape: kicking people out of the country without waiting for a…
Topics: Immigration
California Plans to Deport 19,000 Undocumented Detainees
by Jorge Rivas on May 22 2009, 11:22AM
via New America Media California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to commute the sentence of 19,000 undocumented prisoners, 13,000 of them Mexicans, in exchange for deportation, in order to save $182.3 billion amid an unprecedented fiscal crisis. La Opinión reports…
Topics: Immigration
Weekly Immigration Wire: Women Central to Immigration Story
by Jorge Rivas on May 21 2009, 11:03AM
This is the Weekly Immigration Wire from the Media Consortium for the week of May 15-22, 2009. by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger Celebrated stories of early American pioneers, explorers, and immigrants typically center around men of fortitude and bravery. Depictions…
Topics: Immigration
Get ‘The Accidental American’ for Free
by Jorge Rivas on May 20 2009, 11:39AM
ColorLines Magazine and RaceWire recently partnered with the Progressive Book Club to offer Rinku Sen and Fekkak Mandouh’s “The Accidental American” at an unbeatable price: FREE. That’s right folks, you can get the book for free when you join…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on May 18 2009, 7:15PM
What happened to Javaid Iqbal in some of the most shadowy corners of post-9/11 American law enforcement was not the responsibility of top White House officials, according to the Supreme Court. The case, Iqbal v. Ashcroft, involved the question of…
Topics: Immigration
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