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Weekend Mira! : Dueling Immigration Rallies in NJ

4:40 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Immigration|New Jersey · 2 Comments

27 Jul 2007

In what many local media are describing as a “high-noon standoff”, at least three rallies about immigration are slated to take place tomorrow in Morristown, New Jersey. The events were spurred by the actions of Mayor Donald Cresitello, who sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, hoping to get 10 local police officers deputized as immigration agents, under the federal 287-G program. The officers would be given access to a database to inquire about the individuals’ immigration status and start deportation proceedings on illegal immigrants. One rally is being led by an organization named ProAmerica Society and will feature the mayor, 9/11 Families for Secure America, the Ku Klux Klan, and Stormfront (a white nationalist organization).

Will the olive branch from Cuba to U.S. be reciprocated?

12:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Politics · 1 Comment

27 Jul 2007

While Fidel was a no-show at a Cuban national celebration yesterday, brother Raúl addressed the crowd with a pointed message to the U.S. that his government will extend the olive branch to the incoming U.S. administration:

…Raúl Castro centered his message on the U.S., historic enemy of the Cuban revolution, and extended his hand to the administration that will replace that of George W. Bush, whom he accuses of maintaining a “retrograde and fundamentalist” way of thinking which “allows no room for rational analysis.”

“The new administration will have to decide whether it maintains the absurd, illegal and failed policy against Cuba, or if it will accept the olive branch that we extended to them on the 50th anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, when we reaffirmed our willingness to discuss with equality our prolonged differences with the U.S.”, he emphasized. Raúl Castro was referring to the offer of dialogue that he made to the White House last December 2nd.

I.D. cards are a reality in New Haven

11:37 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Connecticut|Controversia|Immigration · Comments Off

27 Jul 2007

As some cities try to write discrimination into their local laws (and then find that these laws are illegal), one East Coast community is making immigrants’ lives easier. Last month Maegan told us about the plan approved in New Haven Connecticut to provide I.D. cards to undocumented immigrants, which would make getting access to local services a lot easier. Earlier this week, the cards became a reality, but not without controversy. Reuters reports:

Opponents hope to rally the public against it. Southern Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Reform says the ID cards will change “the entire country as we know it” and is organizing a protest on Tuesday at city hall.

“There are millions of illegal aliens right around us that when these ID cards are available to them, they will rush to them and get some identification that will allow them to go to other cities,” said Ted Pechinski, who leads the group.

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Weekend Mira! : Dueling Immigration Rallies in NJ

Will the olive branch from Cuba to U.S. be reciprocated?

I.D. cards are a reality in New Haven

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