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by Jonathan Adams on August 14 2008, 10:22AM
Apparently, the State Department doesn’t think that a birth certificate, church records, school records, and voter rolls are enough to prove that a person is a citizen of the United States anymore. Especially if that person is a Mexican…
Topics: Immigration
Anti-Immigrant Nativists Need Spelling Lessons
by Jonathan Adams on August 12 2008, 1:43PM
The Sanctuary put together a list of foolishly misspelled posters from anti-immigrant protesters, and for some reason I feel a little better. Click here to see the list….
Topics: Immigration
by Daisy Hernandez on August 8 2008, 2:02PM
Sandip Roy’s blog today was too good to keep to myself. Here it is and for more go to New America Media. I actually just tried to call the immigration office’s toll phone number 1-866-880-6344 to deport myself but guess…
Topics: Immigration
Italy Deploys Minutemen, Blames Immigrants for Crime
by Jonathan Adams on August 6 2008, 7:33AM
Originally posted on Of América Italy Latest to Use Immigrants as an Excuse for Militarizing Sreets By Roberto Lovato No stranger to deploying totalitarian-lite methods before a severe economic and political crisis, Italia became but the most recent country…
Topics: Immigration
by Guest Columnist on August 1 2008, 12:30PM
by Joyce Li America is obsessed with itself as a meritocracy - this “bootstraps” notion of congratulatory self-motivation deploys a singular set of morals and ethics that finds its way into (and sometimes provides the basis for) our judicial system,…
Topics: Immigration
Short-sighted Immigration Study Misses the Point
by Rinku Sen on July 31 2008, 2:23PM
The Center for Immigration Studies has released a new report claiming that the numbers of undocumented immigrants have shrunk by as much as 11 percent, or by 1.3 million. They assert that stepped-up enforcement has encouraged many undocumented people…
Topics: Immigration
Anti-Immigrants Racists Front as Environmentalists
by Seth Freed Wessler on July 31 2008, 9:50AM
Some of my favorite left-of-center magazines have been running a peculiar ad recently. It presents an ominous image of a bulldozer clearing away an opening in the middle of a lush green forest. The large font below the image…
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Midwest Activists Show Solidarity for Immigrant Families
by Terry Keleher on July 30 2008, 9:00AM
Over the weekend, some 1200 activists from around the Midwest traveled to Postville, Iowa to stand up for the rights of immigrant families and workers. Like the town of Jena, Louisiana, which became a flashpoint in the debate over…
Topics: Immigration
Phoenix Sheriff Sued for Racial Profiling
by Jonathan Adams on July 17 2008, 2:23PM
Bettina Hansen/The Arizona Republic The ACLU and MALDEF have filed a class action suit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio who they say illegally targets Latinos in his immigration sweeps. The attack on the sweeps alleged the officers based…
Topics: Immigration
by Jonathan Adams on July 16 2008, 12:33PM
h/t Immigration Prof A group of filmmakers recently took a trip along the U.S/Mexico border collecting stories to create a series of short films documenting life on both sides of the border. The videos are available borderstories.org The stories are…
Topics: Immigration
McCain and Obama at LULAC on Immigration
by Jonathan Adams on July 9 2008, 2:27PM
Senators John McCain(R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama(D-Ill.) spoke at the League of United Latin American Citizens Convention Tuesday….
Topics: Immigration
Newsflash: Talk About Immigration—It Works!
by Daisy Hernandez on July 9 2008, 11:34AM
I confess. I’m a sucker for pollsters. I know they’re never saying anything new or fascinating, but the sound of someone rattling off numbers that reflect a party’s political strategy that might affect the outcome in November….hooks me every…
Topics: Immigration
Eating American on the Fourth of July
by Rinku Sen on July 7 2008, 11:47AM
En Español On this Fourth of July, I will be eating hot dogs. While I was trying to fit in as an Indian immigrant child throughout the 1970’s, they represented the quintessential American food. I begged my mother to…
Topics: Immigration
ICE Challenges San Francisco Sanctuary
by Jonathan Adams on June 30 2008, 10:31AM
H/T Immigration Prof San Francisco juvenile probation officials are trying to protect the rights of young immigrants, but ICE representatives argue that the city’s sanctuary should not allow a criminal to evade the law. San Francisco juvenile probation officials -…
Topics: Immigration
Evo Morales Gives a Lesson on Immigration
by Jonathan Adams on June 18 2008, 2:47PM
Republished from Of América What Obama and McCain Can Learn From Evo Morales About Immigration - and Leadership By Roberto Lovato If you want to hear what a Real Leader sounds like with regard to immigration policy, check out Bolivian…
Topics: Immigration
Immigration Prosecutions Hit Record Numbers
by Victor Corral on June 18 2008, 1:37PM
Today, Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) released a new report that showed that federal immigration prosecutions reached an all time high this past March. 9,350 defendants were prosecuted in March of 2008, two and a half times more…
Topics: Immigration
Senator Menendez Rightly Raises the Stakes of the Immigration Debate
by Jonathan Adams on June 12 2008, 2:40PM
Washington, DC – Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) delivered an important speech on the U.S. Senate floor yesterday, calling for reform to U.S. immigration policies and a renewed emphasis on protecting the constitutional rights of those improperly targeted by recent…
Topics: Immigration
Judge Blocks Order to Outlaw Arizona Day Laborers
by Jonathan Adams on June 5 2008, 10:50AM
Courtesy of Nick Mazur h/t ImmigrationProf The ACLU announced today that “The U.S District Court in Phoenix issued a preliminary order today stopping the town of Cave Creek, Arizona from enforcing an anti-solicitation ordinance that infringes on the free…
Topics: Immigration
Raids a Reminder of Historical Backlash Against Immigrants
by Megan Izen on May 30 2008, 12:34PM
I’m not “the sky is falling type” but if I were an undocumented immigrant, that’s definitely how I’d feel right about now. Immigrant communities around the country are being attacked by ICE, the criminal justice system, legislators, vigilante groups,…
Topics: Immigration
by Jonathan Adams on May 28 2008, 8:27AM
H/T ImmigrationProf Check out Breakthrough’s new video on Immigration….
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