Posts Tagged ‘human rights’
New 287(g) is Alot Like Old 287(g) Just Don’t Call it Racial Profiling.
4:53 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| Justice| Politics · Comments Off
17 Oct 2009
Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it had entered into revised 287(g) pacts with 67 local and state law enforcement agencies. Despite the fact that many organizations, from this little Latino space in the blogmundo to the United Nations, have been critical of the program that empowers police to identify and remove undocumented immigrants, the “new and improved” 287(g) allegedly is “friendlier” (when have you known law enforcement to be friendly) and “race neutral” (is that like post-racial). The new Memorandums of Understanding (MOA’s), which haven’t been made public so they cannot be compared with the old MOA’s, allegedly include more oversight and state that the participating agencies have to focus on “serious” criminals and promise to follow civil rights and constitutional laws (no one checked if the signers had their fingers crossed behind their back).
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Immigration Bill Delayed by “Champion” Schumer While Jornaleros Arrive in D.C.
1:14 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| Labor| Washington DC · 6 Comments
9 Sep 2009
Immigrants You Need to Wait This Much
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has decided to delay introducing legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws in hopes of bringing more senators on board and crafting a bipartisan bill, his spokesman said Tuesday…”We are pleased with the framework we have put together so far and the broad-based support it has gotten from a diverse group of those interested in this issue,” [Brian] Fallon said. “The fact that health care is taking longer than expected gives us additional time to now shop our ideas to a number of Republicans to see what they think and what changes they suggest.”
Activist Convicted for Leaving Water Jugs for Migrants
10:55 am By la Macha · Immigration · 1 Comment
4 Jun 2009It’s great to know that leaving water for people dying in the desert is being punished, “knowingly leaving poison in drinking water” or “knowingly slashing drinking water jugs so that dying people can not get life saving water” is not.
In Arizona, a human rights activist from the group No More Deaths has been convicted for leaving plastic jugs for undocumented immigrants crossing near the US-Mexico border. The activist, Walt Staton, says the water jugs were left to prevent migrants from dying of dehydration. On Wednesday, Staton was found guilty of ‘knowingly littering’ in the Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge. In a move criticized by defense attorneys, the jury was ordered to reach a verdict after initial deliberations ended in a deadlock. Staton is a member of No More Deaths, which has worked for years to provide migrants with humanitarian aid. Over the past decade, nearly 2,000 men, women and children have died while trying to cross the border into Arizona. In a statement, No More Deaths said: “By penalizing life-saving work, the United States is showing callous disregard for the lives of our neighbors to the south, whose only crime is to seek a better life.”
I personally don’t care if people are coming here to burn tires, for fucks sake, you don’t imprison somebody for trying to save lives. I mean, weren’t we all just subjected to weeks and weeks of news coverage about the mother that supposedly tried to keep her son from getting cancer treatment? And weren’t we all supposed to be mad at her because she was denying the opportunity of life to her son?
What’s the difference here? Why are we punishing somebody for bringing others the opportunity of life?
Is it because the people being given the opportunity for life are *brown*? Or “illegal?”
Does being “illegal” make you “not human” anymore?
Add This to Fujimori’s Crimes : Mass Sterilizations
7:55 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Peru| Women · 3 Comments
16 Apr 2009Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was found guily of human rights violations, specifically the deaths of 25 people during his administration, torture and kidnapping. The guilty verdict earned Fujimori 25 years in prison, a sentence that his daughter Keiko said during an interview with Jorge Ramos on Univision’s Al Punto was equivalent to a life sentence due to his age. While Alberto Fujimori plans an appeal and his daughter is thinking of running for president, another one of his war crimes hasn’t been brought up, mass sterilizations of indigenous women and men.
During Fujimori’s time in office hundreds of thousands of Andean women were “threaded” or given hysterectomies, many against their will. Health clinics would open in rural villages, sometimes accompanied by military bands and dancing. Posters would appear all over the countryside urging family planning. but family planning wasn’t about access to birth control for the Fujimori regime. It was about stopping indigenous people from having children at all.
There is a nearly half hour documentary on this here.
United Nations Tells Us What We Already Know : US Doesn’t Protect the Rights of Immigrants
8:45 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · Comments Off
10 Mar 2008
On Friday, the United Nations issued a report saying that the U.S. fails to protect the rights of immigrants, specifically citing the high rates of detention and the lack of access to legal counsel. In the international body’s first scrutiny of US treatment of its 37.5 million noncitizen migrants, UN investigator Jorge Bustamante on Friday took particular aim at what he criticized as the “overuse” of detention for immigrants.
Noting that the annual detainee population has tripled in nine years to 230,000, he called on the United States to eliminate mandatory detention for certain migrants and instead expand the use of alternatives, such as electronic ankle bracelets.
Bustamante also urged that migrants be given the right to legal counsel, more impartial hearings, and improved holding facilities, particularly for women and children.
Scarface: AI’s new Spanish campaign
5:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| GLBT| Spain| society · Comments Off
21 Feb 2006
Amnesty International wants to draw the attention of Spanish citizens to the consequences faced by gays and lesbians in less-tolerant parts of the world. The result is a campaign featuring Spain’s most prominent gay celebs with their faces mangled and bloodied as if from the violent blows of an anti-gay hate crime.
La campaña de publicidad, lanzada en Internet y prensa, utiliza la cara de estos artistas españoles para mostrar las “terribles consecuencias” de ser homosexual en algunos países del mundo. “Las imágenes son muy impactantes y llegan a la gente.
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