Posts Tagged ‘deportation’
Doesn’t the U.S. Need More Aerospace Engineers?
8:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Education|Immigration|Politics|youth · Comments Off
22 Apr 2008Or maybe not really so the country can spare a young man like this because his name is Juan.
Via / The Mex Files
Man Wrongfully Deported Sues U.S.
10:32 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Justice|mexico · Comments Off
29 Feb 200830-year-old Pedro Guzman was deported to Mexico in May after he was arrested and jailed on a misdemeanor trespassing charge. Nothing surprising there except for one thing. Pedro is a U.S. citizen.
Guzman, who is mentally disabled, was missing for nearly three months as his family looked for him in the shelters, jails and morgues of towns in Tijuana and neighboring cities. During that time, he rummaged for food in garbage cans, washed himself in rivers and walked as far south as Ensenada — more than 60 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the lawsuit.
Guzman tried to return to the United States several times but was turned away. He was found near the Calexico border crossing in August and reunited with his family.
Teens Deported for Skipping School
10:18 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|Controversia|Education|Immigration|Texas · 6 Comments
28 Feb 2008
When I was a teenager, skipping school meant detention, cleaning lockers, and a beat down from my mom. 17 year old twin hermanas Brisa and Lluvia Amante (yes, Breeze and Rain Lover) skipped school once and went to truancy court. They were fined and sent on their way. But when the sisters skipped school again they ended up being deported to El Salvador.
Deportees : Do Not Sedate (unless you have permission)
10:27 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Justice|Politics · Comments Off
31 Jan 2008
Apparently at least 56 deportees were being sedated in a 7 month period in 2006 and 2007, without their permission and without there being any history of mental illness. While the policy of making undocumented people take psychotropic drugs won’t be done away with completely, it will now only be done as a last resort (yeah right) and agents must get a court order before administering drugs “to facilitate an alien’s removal.”
To get a sedation order from court, officials must show deportees have a history of physical resistance to being removed or are a danger to themselves.
The policy change came only after attention was drawn to the practice by a lawsuit filed by the ACLU.
Via / Pro Inmigrant
Deporting US Citizens
12:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Justice|Politics · Comments Off
10 Aug 2007
I’ve been constantly writing about how current immigration policies impacts more that just undocumented workers. Racial profiling and an inept system is sweeping up citizens and deporting them.
Pedro Guzman, 29, was picked up at the Calexico border crossing over the weekend. He was released to his family on Tuesday. A wrongly deported U.S. citizen who was missing for nearly three months in Mexico ate out of garbage cans, bathed in rivers and was repeatedly turned away by U.S. border agents when he tried to return to California, his family said Tuesday.
Guzman was deported on May 11 through confusing circumstances. His family thought he went missing and was looking for him. Since this happened Guzman has suffered emotional and psychological trauma.
Via / Racewire
Deportation Moratorium in U.S.?
12:41 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · 2 Comments
9 Feb 2007
Some lawmakers on both sides of the U.S. Southern border are asking for a stop to deportations of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. until comprehensive immigration reform laws are passed.
The foreign delegates from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, on a two-day visit to Capitol Hill, pledged to work with their U.S. counterparts to fix the immigration system, which they said has led to a “family crisis” in Mexico and a staggering loss of life along the border. They also promised to help improve security, which they said was of paramount importance, especially after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Campaign to keep undocumented children here
8:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|Immigration · 1 Comment
21 Dec 2006
In response to the growing problem of deportation separating families, a non-profit organization is looking for ways to keep kids in the U.S. even if their parents are expelled from the U.S. The rationale is that kids should be able to take advantage of the opportunities that this country offers since the living conditions in the home countries of their parents may be less than optimal, the circumstance which motivated the family to immigrate in the first place.
Osvaldo Cabrera, President of the coaltion, told Efe “this initiative arises from the need to protect minors who have the right to, because they were born in this country, to grow up as American citizens and have better possibilities of development and social protection.”“Family desintegration is a sad and cruel reality, as is the situation in which children must go with their countries to a country where conditions of poverty and extremse need determine their future,”he said.
So what’s worse, a family split by deportation but with successful children, or a united family living in poverty?
Via / MSN Latino
Immigration lends database to local police
1:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Immigration · 1 Comment
15 Nov 2006
The Department of Homeland Security is supplying some local police forces in California with access to a database of fingerprints of immigrants who have been deported back to their countries of origin, in an effort to identify whether individuals are undocumented when they are detained by authorities:
The U.S. government intends to make information available to all local law enforcement agencies in the nation within two years to help catch criminal immigrants, people with ties to terrorist groups, and others who pose a threat.“We need more people on the ground with information who can act,” said Robert Mocny, acting director of the Home Security visitor-technology program.
Meanwhile, immigrants rights groups like MALDEF worry that this initiative may lead to law enforcement detaining people just to check their legal status.
In Los Angeles County, Bryant said there is no indication officers have arrested people just to check their immigration status. “We’ve got better things to do,” he said.
I can’t help but be reminded of this Houston proposal.
Via / Appeal-Democrat.com
Fear of deportation makes immigrants spend less
7:34 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · houston|Immigration|Money|Texas · Comments Off
24 May 2006
The Houston Chronicle has a very interesting piece today about the economic impact of recent raids against undocumented immigrants in the Latino goods and services sector in Houston. Apparently people are leaving their houses less, some have left their jobs and others are stashing away cash out of fear of they’ll be the among the next group of rounded-up immigrants. The impact is being felt mostly by businesses that cater to the Latino immigrant population in Houston:
Although temperatures are rising, sales of paletas are not.Carlos Gonzalez said his sales are half of what they should be during this peak season when his mostly Hispanic customers traditionally try to stave off the heat with the fruit-flavored frozen treats.
“It has gone down a lot,” said Gonzalez at an international bus station on Harrisburg Boulevard where he stopped his paleta cart to sell to passengers. “People are afraid to go to work.”
Across Houston, some small businesses that cater to the Hispanic immigrant community are reporting a sales slump that began last month after federal agents swept through pallet company IFCO Systems, detaining undocumented immigrants.
Read the whole article at Chron.com.
Via / The Houston Chronicle
“OTM” immigrants “make like Mexicans”
3:26 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Guatemala|Immigration|mexico · 1 Comment
22 May 2006
Last week we told you that not everyone crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. is necessarily a Mexican immigrant. Via The Latin Americanist, Reuters reports on the phenomenon of “OTM” (“other than Mexican”) immigrants claiming to be Mexican in order to be deported to Mexico, rather than their home countries:
Non-Mexican Hispanics entering the United States illegally are studying up on Mexican history and geography, even learning to whistle the national anthem, to beat U.S. plans to fly them home.
Stop right there. Is this working? If so, we’ve got some dumb Border Patrol officials on the beat.
…so-called Other Than Mexican, or OTM, illegal immigrants mostly from Central America, are increasingly being flown back hundreds of miles to their home countries, which can effectively end their dream of entering the United States to earn a better life.So, many pretend to be Mexicans.
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