Four day old Yair Anthony Carrillo and his mother, Maria Gurrolla of Nashville, Tennessee were doubly victimized by the fear that is the current immigration system in the United States on Tuesday, when the infant was kidnapped by a woman claiming to be an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
The fake official slashed Gurrolla [...]
In: Immigration
25 Sep 2009Remember the Postville Raids?
via Racewire
When the US government stormed a Kosher meat plant in the American heartland, arresting nearly 400 undocumented workers, a Guatemalan village wept. The biggest immigration raid in US history severed an economic lifeline to one of the poorest corners of the Western Hemisphere while pushing an Iowa farm town to the [...]
In: Immigration| Justice| Labor| Politics
5 May 2009Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a decision that could change how undocumented immigrants are treated under the law, specifically in reference to the use of social security numbers.
Today, almost a year since it was used to deport nearly 400 Latino immigrants after the ICE raid in Postville, the Supreme Court issued its decision on Flores-Figueroa [...]
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