Posts Tagged ‘department of homeland security’
Was Yesterday’s White House Immigration Summit a Positive Move?
12:28 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Obama|Politics · 1 Comment
21 Aug 2009
Yesterday’s White House summit on Comprehensive Immigration Reform, hosted by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, was well received by many D.C. based advocates. The Center for American Progress, United Farm Workers, and America’s Voice all released statements praising the meeting as a step in the right direction and as a sign that the Obama administration was serious about getting a bill out this year that could be passed next year.
But was the meeting more show than actual movement?
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Napolitano Plays Hostess at White House Immigration Meeting Mañana: Is She Gonna Serve More of the Same?
7:56 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Obama|Politics · 4 Comments
19 Aug 2009
In an effort to make it look like it’s doing something on the immigration reform front, tomorrow, at around noon, the White House is hosting a meeting on immigration. The last meeting the White House held on immigration pushed NY’s Senator Schumer as the legislative champion of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, with his talk of illegals and biometric ids. The choice of host for tomorrow’s meeting is no less disturbing, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
President Obama has made it clear that Comprehensive Immigration Reform is not a priority, for now. However, the Department of Homeland Security under Napolitano has been laying the groundwork, or doing the dirty work if you will. Dirty work including expanding Bush era enforcement measures like Secure Communities & 287(g) programs. Add to this the horrendous record of human rights abuses inside immigrant detention centers , including deaths that the public learns about in pieces and I.C.E’s inability to follow the Constitution, and it makes perfect sense that Secretary Napolitano be the ambassador for CIR, no?
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Department of Homeland Security to Monitor Immigrant Detainee Treatment
6:37 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Justice · 4 Comments
6 Aug 2009
The Department of Homeland Security is known far and wide for their excellent human rights record, especially ICE. So it makes perfect sense that President Obama would put 23 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials inside large immigrant detention centers to monitor management in light of growing complaints of abuse in the privately run institutions.
ICE, which is part of Homeland Security, intends to hire a medical expert to review the health care protocols for the detention centers and give an independent review of medical complaints, according to the people briefed on the plan. They spoke only on condition of anonymity ahead of an announcement expected Thursday [today].
Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave details of its plan to immigration advocates in a conference call Wednesday evening. One person on the call, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because ICE had not made a formal announcement, said the plan includes turning a detention center in Texas for parents and their children into a women’s facility and no longer placing families there. However, a separate facility in Pennsylvania will continue housing families.
Immigrant Detainees in Louisiana on Hunger Strike
7:36 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Justice · 4 Comments
4 Aug 2009
When your cuerpo is used as fodder to feed the prison industrial complex, how do you transform that body into a weapon of protest? For immigrants caught up in detention, using their bodies to protest the horrible and inhumane conditions inside is nothing new. What is new is the context that the current administration has made it clear that prison “reform” is not a priority, much less if the prisons we are talking about “reforming” are for those labeled alien/foreign/unwanted/brown.
Now, another group of immigrants inside a detention center are on hunger strike, their fifth one, in protest of the deplorable conditions at the South Louisiana Correctional Facility in Basile. This detention center is run by the private contractor LCS Corrections Services Inc. and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
According to the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, more than 100 detainees acted as human rights monitors inside the jail throughout July. “Over the course of a month, detainee human rights monitors recorded complaints, attempted to lodge hundreds of grievances, and communicated with advocates about jail conditions,” said NOWCRJ, which released a report of their findings and the accounts of the several detainees.
Oye I.C.E, Enough is Enough!
7:35 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Immigration|media justice · Comments Off
31 Jul 2009The change the people in the United States were promised under the new presidential administration and his appointees has been slow in reaching some the most vulnerable, including the undocumented who despite loud “si se puedes” still live in fear in their own homes and at their jobs. For all the talk of rule of law, seems that Immigration and Customs Enforcement can’t be bothered by that little something called the Constitution.
America’s Voice has launched a petition asking the Department of Homeland Security to cut their shit (my words, not theirs).
Department of Homeland Security Pats Itself on the Back in Year End Report
11:19 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Politics · Comments Off
30 Dec 2008
Everyone is looking back at the past year and highlighting their accomplishments including the Department of Homeland Security, who released their year end report a few weeks ago.
Number one on their priority list, according to the report, is protecting the nation from dangerous people, which apparently means immigrants. Yay for the government equating immigration with danger! ::rolls eyes::
The following are selected achievements from this year:
· Turned the tide against illegal migration to the United States through the deployment of fencing and technology along the southern border; the implementation of unprecedented immigration enforcement efforts and operations; and the hiring of additional Border Patrol agents to meet the department’s goal of employing 18,000 agents.
If you can stomach it, you can read a fact sheet on the report (PDF file) here.
Via / Immigrant Solidarity Network
Reality tv is turning into pr for the United States Department of Homeland Security with their own reality show on ABC.
Homeland Securty Has Secret Invisible Blogger Corp
1:20 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs|Immigration|Politics · Comments Off
4 Apr 2008
Bloggers like to blog. We like to blog about meetings with important government people about issues our readers care about (or not). So can someone tell me who the hell were the bloggers at the a roundtable discussion that Sec. Chertoff had where he discussed why his department “cannot afford to get enmeshed in the kinds of litigation that have traditionally caused projects [in this case the border fence] to take decades to complete…” you know because of troublesome environmental laws?
Marisa at Latina Lista points out some wavig red flags:
Reading the transcript, which was released as a press release, and is only a partial transcript at that, not one blogger is identified.The strangeness of this situation immediately waves red flags.
Before the government releases a bogus statement about protecting privacy, there exists something in the blogosphere that is an universal truth — no blogger wants to be anonymous, especially if they were lucky enough to score an interview with a high-profile individual like Chertoff.
Real bloggers would make that a headline post and it would have surely been “talked” about in the blogosphere. Strange that I ran across the item by accident doing a news seach on Chertoff.
Given the track record of this administration that sees nothing wrong in staging press conferences, I tend to believe that this may also have been the case – though I don’t have any proof but a lot of circumstantial evidence.
Ay the government wouldn’t lie like that and stage an event right?
Via / Latina Lista
Must Read: “La Nueva Orleans”
4:03 pm By Maegan La Mala · Lifestyle|Politics · Comments Off
26 Sep 2005
Gregory Rodriguez, a contributing editor to the LA Times is making a big prediction. In his recent article, “La Nueva Orleans”, Rodriguez states that the population of rebuilt New Orleans will look quite different than the pre-Katrina New Orleans. More specifically, he says that New Orleans will have such a large Latino population that it will resemble Los Angeles.
On September 6, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) temporarily suspended a sanction that requires employers to have proof of citizenship for their workers. This suspension is in effect for at least 45 days from the day of issue, and could be renewed.
An excerpt from the article:
Because they are young and lack roots in the United States, many recent migrants are ideal for the explosion of construction jobs to come. Those living in the U.S. will relocate to the Gulf Coast, while others will come from south of the border. Most will not intend to stay where their new jobs are, but the longer the jobs last, the more likely they will settle permanently. One recent poll of New Orleans evacuees living in Houston emergency shelters found that fewer than half intend to return home. In part, their places will be taken by the migrant workers. Former President Clinton recently hinted as much on NBC’s “Meet the Press” when he said New Orleans will be resettled with a different population.
I encourage all Vivirlatino readers to check out the entire article, even though you may have to fill out a registration form to access it.
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