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Monday Morning Mini-Movie Via La Frontera Times : Ice Breaker

6:00 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|Justice · 1 Comment

16 Aug 2010

School is in session ya’ll

Lady Gaga=Not Impressed

2:04 pm By la Macha · Arts|Music · 11 Comments

4 Aug 2010

As most of you know by now there’s been boycotts of Arizona in the works ever since SB 1070 was signed into law. Artists in particular have led the way calling for an enforcement of the boycott from other artists.

Well thank The LORD Lady Gaga had something to say about calls for boycotts:

If you can’t see the video, she basically does some sorta mumbly thing about how she won’t endorse the boycott, that she will not cancel her show because she’s going to protest instead. Um. Yeah. Cuz, yano, canceling your show isn’t *protesting* when it’s a part of a movement by artists to boycott the state. It’s….Hm. What is it?

Anyway. I guess it’s good that she felt the need to explain herself. Which means that there was a significant amount of pressure put on her. I wonder if I should be keeping a look out for her louder screaming, though? What do you think? Will this be last we hear of Ms. Gaga on immigration?

Deportations While Leaving the U.S. Make the Case for No Sense and All Dollars

8:21 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration · 1 Comment

4 Aug 2010

A favorite line of many anti-immigrant peeps : “if you don’t like it, just pack up and leave” may have to be revisited, because it seems like the U.S government isn’t even about to let immigrants return home easily.

Bonnie Arellano, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said that when illegal immigrants are detected trying to leave the country, they are not just ushered across the line. Instead, they are processed and formally removed.

The consequences of an arrest can be harsh: Those deported for unauthorized presence in the U.S. may be barred for 10 years from seeking legal immigrant papers. In addition, a later arrest for illegal entry may be prosecuted criminally.

No National Guard Troops to Arizona, For Now

11:59 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|military · Comments Off

1 Aug 2010

National Guard troops were scheduled to go to the Mexico U.S border today, under order of President Obama in effort to put more “boots of the ground” against immigrants and essentially supporting SB1070. According to El Diario/La Prensa, this deployment, which would have sent over 500 National Guard officials to the Mexico-Arizona border, has been delayed.

Officially, according to National Guard spokesperson, the reason is because they are still looking through the applications for medical and other eligibility issues. Another possibility, that the National Guard would never admit to, is that they don’t have enough people applying for open positions.

Video from Yesterday’s Protests in Arizona

11:45 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|arizona|Immigration · 1 Comment

30 Jul 2010

Puente AZ has some amazing, inspiring video up from some of yesterday’s actions on the ground in Arizona yesterday, showing people resisting the part of SB1070 that went into effect and perhaps more importantly, rejecting the rhetoric of hate that led to SB1070 including 287(g) and Secure Communities.

VivirLatino will be at a marcha/rally in NYC today against SB1070 and the Arizona Diamondbacks playing in Queens, one of the hearts of the immigrant comunidad.

Today the Border Becomes Less Safe…

6:33 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|U.S.-Mexico Border · 5 Comments

29 Jul 2010

…but not in the way the media or anti-immigrant organizations and individuals would have you believe. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer claims that SB1070 will make the state safer. Today, SB1070 goes into effect, putting the freedom of Latinos and those who look “Latino” or “illegal” at risk. Despite the fact that SB1070′s precursor, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s use of 287(g), saw an increase in crime in Maricopa County.

Additionally, in just a few days, those 1,200 National Guard troops that President Obama ordered to la Frontera will be deployed. Over 500 of those will be in Arizona.

The partial injunction still allows it to be a crime to be “harboring or transporting” an undocumented portion. So if you’re driving your browner prima down the road, ten cuidado.

The partial injunction still creates a criminal charge for “stopping a motor vehicle to pick up day laborers and for day laborers to get in a motor vehicle if it impedes the normal movement of traffic” And you know how those day laborers ALWAYS stop traffic. Remember Oyster Bay?

Stay safe gente.

Injunction Halts Enforcement of Parts of SB1070

2:07 pm By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration · 4 Comments

28 Jul 2010

With less than 24 hours to spare, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton issued a preliminary injunction that blocks parts of SB1070 from going into effect tomorrow.

Here’s what will not go into effect:

Portion of Section 2 of S.B. 1070
A.R.S. § 11-1051(B): requiring that an officer make a reasonable attempt to
determine the immigration status of a person stopped,
detained or arrested if there is a reasonable suspicion that
the person is unlawfully present in the United States, and
requiring verification of the immigration status of any
person arrested prior to releasing that person

Section 3 of S.B. 1070
A.R.S. § 13-1509: creating a crime for the failure to apply for or carry alien
registration papers

Portion of Section 5 of S.B. 1070
A.R.S. § 13-2928(C): creating a crime for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply
for, or perform work

Section 6 of S.B. 1070
A.R.S. § 13-3883(A)(5): authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person where there
is probable cause to believe the person has committed a
public offense that makes the person removable from the
United States

Actions Against SB1070 Around the U.S.

12:12 pm By Maegan La Mala · arizona|California|Immigration|New York|New York City · 5 Comments

28 Jul 2010

In less than 24 hours, ~~unless a court injunction blocks it~~ Edited to add on 2/28/5:13 pm EST that there has been a partial injunction, SB1070 will be the law in the state of Arizona. Actions across the country are being planned in solidarity with the communities that will be even more unfairly targeted than they have been. I will be continuously updating this list as more information comes to me. If you know of an event not listed here, please leave a comment below or email info@vivirlatino.com.

Most of what I have is local to me here in NYC so help me expand it so as many of us can participate and be in our streets to show that we will not accept our herman@s being harassed and attacked anywhere.

Thursday, July 29th

Bay Area
Events scheduled in the East Bay, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and more. Please visit the Indybay Calendar for details.

Detroit, Michigan
4:30 pm : McNamara Federal Building 477 Michigan Ave (at Cass)
Initial endorsers: Centro Obrero, Detroit Green Party, Latinos Unidos de Michigan, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, Moratorium NOW! Coalition

New York City
9:30 a.m. : Gather at Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn
10:00 a.m. : March Across Brooklyn Bridge
11:00 a.m. : Press Conference at Foley Square
The “We Are All Arizona” march in NYC on July 29th will raise a platform by local immigrant rights organizations including: (1) a call for an end to SB 1070 and the proliferation of copycat legislation now surfacing in over 20 states; (2) a call for an end to the use of racial profiling; (3) a demand for just and humane immigration reform that upholds family unity and human rights over increased enforcement; and (5) a call for an end to related programs such as 287(g), Criminal Alien Program, and Secure Communities (now in NY State) that use local law enforcement to tear families apart.
New Sanctuary Movement, Families for Freedom, Immigrant Defense Project, Churches United to Save & Heal, Black Institute, DRUM-Desis Rising Up & Moving, VAMOS Unidos, American Friends Service Committee, Wind of the Spirit, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights

Friday, July 30th

Queens, NYC
5 pm : Gather at 83rd Street and Roosevelt Ave
March to Citifield Stadium, where Arizona Diamondbacks are playing
Sponsored by the May 1st Coalition

Saturday, July 31

Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY
Noon: Long Island Faith Community Solidarity Vigil
Port Jefferson Village Hall

Republicans to Arizona’s Rescue?

8:10 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|Politics · 2 Comments

16 Jul 2010

According to some Republicans in Congress, the Obama administration is being mean and picking on Arizona through it’s legal challenge to SB1070, set to go into effect on July 29th. Apparently having “more boots on the ground” on the border and programs like 287(g) and Secure Communties aren’t enforcement heavy enough so Arizona, according to the Republicans, is well within it’s right to enforce SB1070. Which is why, two Republican Senators, Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.) and David Vitter (La.), are planning on attaching a procedural amendment to small business legislation next week to try and block the Federal Justice Department’s lawsuit.

As far as I know, there are currently three lawsuits against SB1070, the Federal lawsuit, the LULAC/Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law suit, and the first suit filed by the ACLU and other orgs including Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) – a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, ACLU of Arizona, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

The state has amassed a war chest of over a million dollars so far for the defense of the law, thanks in large part to donations.

Today in NYC: Rally to Push MLB All-Star Game Out of Arizona, NO to SB1070

6:51 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|New York City|Sports · 1 Comment

8 Jul 2010

Today, June 8th at noon (EST), advocacy organizations and members of la comunidad, like yours truly, will gather outside of Major League Baseball’s headquarters, 245 Park Ave (46th and Park), to protest against Arizona’s SB1070 and to demand that MLB respect the boycott of the state and move their 2011 All-Star Game.

Late last month, VivirLatino released a statement regarding our support of the Arizona boycott and demand that the All-Star Game happen somewhere else.

I will say what the Federal lawsuit will not say, that SB1070, in it’s entirety, threatens all Latinos and has taken it’s cue from Federal programs like 287(g), Secure Communities, and the unspoken triple D Federal immigration reform program. The struggle against SB1070 cannot be separated from the wider struggle to an end to the detentions, deportation, and disappearances under the guise of “homeland security”.

The 2011 MLB All Star Game is scheduled to take place in Phoenix at Chase Field.

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