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VideoAg Jobs: pragmatism and justice
by Michelle Chen on May 14 2009, 6:27PM
Today, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) reintroduced the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act (Ag Jobs) bill. Though the concept of farm guestworkers, and their rampant exploitation, has historically been one of the thorniest immigration labor issues, Ag Jobs…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on May 14 2009, 3:29PM
Homeownership has long been touted as the cornerstone of the American dream and a tool for narrowing the racial wealth gap. Has the foreclosure crisis extinguished that hope, or exposed the myths that drive it? The Pew Hispanic Center…
Topics: Economy, Immigration
Enforcement Creates Era of Criminality
by Julianne Hing on May 14 2009, 8:59AM
This is the Weekly Immigration Wire from the Media Consortium for the week of May 7-14, 2009. by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger The Latino/a community has had ample reason to hope that President Obama would take on immigration reform in…
Topics: Immigration
No Justice for Vincent Then, No Justice for Luis Now
by Jorge Rivas on May 8 2009, 8:51AM
via New America Media, Commentary, Carmina Ocampo Editor’s Note: Last week, two of the young white men who allegedly killed Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Penn. were acquitted by an all white jury. The case mirrors the first federal…
Topics: Immigration
Weekly Immigration Wire: Fighting H1N1 Hype
by Guest Columnist on May 7 2009, 9:35AM
by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger This week’s Wire focuses on the opportunities for change that crisis can introduce. From the H1N1 “Swine” flu’s declining fervor to 2009’s May Day marches for worker rights and immigrant solidarity; from the tragic killing…
Topics: Immigration
To catch a thief: SCOTUS on undocumented workers
by Michelle Chen on May 5 2009, 5:18PM
The Supreme Court gave the feds an important grammar lesson yesterday when it clamped down a common legal weapon used against immigrants: “identity theft” charges that target undocumented workers using falsified documents. According to the Court’s opinion: Section §1028(a)(1)…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on May 4 2009, 6:15PM
We may never know their true motivations, but according to a jury in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, whatever drove a group of teens to beat a Mexican immigrant to death last year, “ethnic intimidation” apparently had nothing to do with…
Topics: Criminal Justice, Immigration
Maryland Kills Bill to Aid Undocumented Students
by Jorge Rivas on May 4 2009, 9:22AM
via New America Media & El Tiempo Latino Undocumented students will continue to pay higher tuition rates at Maryland colleges after the state Assembly effectively killed a bill that proposed to grant them in-state rates if they are residents….
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on May 1 2009, 6:38PM
The coalescence of May Day and Equal Pay Day this week was an apt moment to demand justice for some of the country’s most vulnerable and least visible workers. Domestic workers are isolated both physically and legally from labor…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on May 1 2009, 4:35PM
Lest the flippant liberal blogosphere miss the flu-hysteria bandwagon, Huffington Post blogger Betsy Perry wasted no time parroting the right’s xenophobic spew this week. Proving that lame racial humor knows no political boundaries, Perry—who serves on New York City Mayor…
Topics: Immigration
Punishing Workers Through Bosses
by Michelle Chen on May 1 2009, 3:12PM
The Obama administration has taken tentative steps toward reorienting the immigration debate, ostensibly moving the focus from undocumented workers onto their employers. According to an announcement released Thursday by Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is centering its…
Topics: Immigration
Photos from May Day 2009 in New York City
by Julianne Hing on May 1 2009, 2:44PM
Miguel de la Fuente, our New York media intern, sent us photos from this afternoon in New York City, where thousands of protesters are on the streets demanding an end to immigration raids and deportations, justice for all families and…
Topics: Immigration
Live Image Feed From Los Angeles Immigration Marches
by Jorge Rivas on May 1 2009, 2:20PM
Los Angeles has a total of six May Day marches have been approved for areas in and around Downtown, with at least one expected to cover new ground by starting in the Echo Park district and proceeding east along Sunset…
Topics: Immigration
May Day 2009 with Shannah Kurland
by Julianne Hing on May 1 2009, 1:21PM
Today we’re asking people around the country one question: How do we talk about immigration reform in a time of economic recession? This is what Shannah Kurland, the Strategy and Development Coordinator with the Olneyville Neighborhood Association in Rhode…
Topics: Immigration
May Day 2009 with Kevin Johnson
by Julianne Hing on May 1 2009, 12:01PM
Today we’re asking people around the country one question: How do we talk about immigration reform in a time of economic recession? First up is Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law, and an international expert on…
Topics: Immigration
Swine Flu Infecting Immigration Debate
by Jorge Rivas on May 1 2009, 10:18AM
by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger It’s no shock that those long-opposed to All Things Immigrant are using the Swine Flu outbreak—which has mostly affected Mexicans at this point—to ratchet anti-immigrant rhetoric up to an irresponsible level. It’s disappointing though, especially…
Topics: Immigration
The law of unintended consequences
by Michelle Chen on April 27 2009, 5:35PM
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano indicated last week that she is open to reforming the Real ID Act—the controversial 2005 legislation that purported to standardize driver’s licenses and block access for undocumented immigrants and people deemed security threats. The…
Topics: Immigration, Politics
Blacks and immigrants: from ‘either-or’ to ‘both-and’
by Michelle Chen on April 24 2009, 10:00PM
While tea-baggers dominated the headlines over the past few weeks, another movement was quietly working to weave together communities that some want to see pitted against each other. The Black Immigration Network, a coalition led by the Black Alliance…
Topics: Immigration
by Michelle Chen on April 24 2009, 3:47PM
Weighing the future of a young mother and child in a Missouri court, Judge David C. Dally of Jasper County delivered this straightforward opinion: “Her lifestyle, that of smuggling herself into the country illegally and committing crimes in this…
Topics: Immigration
Weekly Immigration Wire: Building Up to Change
by Guest Columnist on April 23 2009, 10:21AM
by Nezua, The Media Consortium MediaWire Blogger As the U.S. moves closer and closer to enacting immigration reform, the situation on the ground is evolving as well. Nothing is static for an issue that touches so many people across so…
Topics: Immigration
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