Posts Tagged ‘illegal immigrants’
Es Mentiroso Ese Hombre. Who Exactly Are the Liars? A Look At Reactions to Wilson.
2:10 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Health|Immigration|Politics · 2 Comments
13 Sep 2009Everyone and their mami is jumping on the outburst heard round the world. Let’s take a look at how organizations that claim to be progressive or at the very least Democratic, are repping what down during Obama’s health care plan pitch.
The Free Press Action Fund, an org whose mission according to it’s tagline is to “Reform Media, Transform Democracy”, took the opportunity to ask for funds. In their request letter, they focus on the failings of the mainstream media:
For the past 24 hours, the media have focused on the controversy surrounding Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst, but not on the substance of his claim — that the president lied about coverage for undocumented immigrants — which is demonstrably false.
As in nothing to see here folks. Undocumented (at least they didn’t use the word illegal) won’t be covered. Hmm I wonder how independent media makers such as myself can get in on some of that fundraising action?
Read more…
Pointing el Dedo : Those Damn Illegals are to Blame for Economic Meltdown
8:51 am By Maegan La Mala · Blogs|Immigration|Internet|Media|Money · Comments Off
26 Sep 2008
Need someone to blame for the economic downturn, for the mortgage crisis? Look no farther than Maria y Jose. That’s right it’s those damn illegal immigrants (or some would have you believe). After all they control the money and the system that controls that. No? DreamActivist writes over at The Sanctuary:
Why, don’t you know, those migrant workers, low-income wage-earners, illegals in the military, undocumented students struggling to afford college, caused the financial collapse of Wall Street, Main Street, all streets!! Now we need a $700 billion dollar bailout for them!
Sylvia P also follows the path atras, as to who really is to blame.
It started with the ambitions of a single illegal alien.
That’s right. I said it. We have no time for political correctness now. If Sen. McCain can suspend his campaign, I can suspend my intelligence to state things plainly. And plainly, my investment banker siblings, it always starts with one.
And we ignored the signs, even when it appeared in the news way back when the Mexicans first began ousting CEOs.
San Francisco Residents Defend Defending Immigrants
3:33 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Immigration|San Francisco · Comments Off
30 Jul 2008
This morning I read that there was going to be a protest happening at San Francisco’s City Hall. The issue : the city’s supporting the human rights of immigrants, with or without documents. Not surprisingly, the Minutemen called the event against what they call “sanctuary city status”. Too bad the pro-immigrant crowd came out with more power. Email reports say that there are about 20 Minutemen and about 80-100 pro-immigrant and labor rights people representing.
Mil gracias to Nicole Rivera for giving us the update and permission to use some of her pics!!
Law Against Undocumented Struck Down in Long Island County
2:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Justice|Labor|New York · Comments Off
3 Jun 2008Yesterday, a Suffolk County, New York law that required required it’s 17,000 licensed contractors to prove their employees are not undocumented immigrants was struck down.
Judge Ralph Costello ruled that the county legislature broke its own rules when it rejected, in an 8-8 vote, Legis. Ricardo Montano’s May 13 argument that the bill was improperly moved from committee.
Costello ordered legislators to vote again on Montano’s motion and
voided all subsequent action on the worker status bill.
The judge’s decision kills the measure for now, though County Executive Steve Levy said he expects the bill to be reintroduced and passed again. The earliest that process could be completed is August…
Via / Newsday, Email
Those Left Behind : Postville , Iowa
7:30 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|Family|Immigration|Iowa|Justice · Comments Off
19 May 2008
This is the face of what is left behind after the huge ICE raid in Postville, Iowa exactly one week ago today.
Half of the school system’s 600 students were absent Tuesday, including 90 percent of Hispanic children, because their parents were arrested or in hiding.
Spencer S. Hsu – Washington Post (18 May 2008)
What will happen to these children? Will they get put into foster care? Many of them are likely U.S. Citizens and pledge to the U.S. every morning in school. Oh the irony.
It makes the helicopter flying overhead in my immigrant neighborhood ominous.
Via / Citizen Orange
Trying To Escape a Hurricane? Make Sure You Bring Your Papers
10:36 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|Politics|Texas · Comments Off
16 May 2008
If you’re in Texas and planning to escape a hurricane, you better bring your residency papers.
Hurricane season starts June 1. In the event of a hurricane in the region, emergency officials predict more than 130,000 evacuees will leave the Valley by school bus. They will be checked for identification and citizenship before they can board.
Anyone who is not a citizen or is not a legal resident will be held in specially designed areas in the Valley that are “made to withstand hurricanes,” said Dan Doty, a Border Patrol spokesperson for the Valley sector.
So will legal residents be allowed to evacuate because it says anyone who is not a citizen? And does anyone else really think that the “designated areas” won’t just be centers for deportation or that they really will withstand a hurricane? Remember the Astrodome?
I Guess It’s Ok to Commit Crimes on Undocumented Since They are “Illegal” Anyway, right?
11:02 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · crime|Immigration · Comments Off
6 Mar 2008
Playing on people’s fears is something that the United States is really good at so it’s no wonder that people are playing on the fears of the undocumented to commit crimes against them.
Immigrant communities in the Boston area are in a heightened state of fear as people impersonating law enforcement officials barge into their homes and extort money from them. The Boston Herald documents several reports of this oppression.
This crime is playing on the fears of the undocumented, fear of law enforcement. So great is this fear that when crimes are committed against them, often they won’t report these crimes.
Roosevelt Avenue Document Raid Hasn’t Stopped Business
3:55 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Justice|New York City · 1 Comment
13 Nov 2007This morning on my local Telemundo station there was a report about undocumented workers buying false documents in California. Specifically in one case the social security number of a toddler was used and her credit was already in shambles because of it.
It is stories such as these that have prompted a crackdown on false documents in immigrant centers. Just a few weeks ago there was a huge raid not to far from where I live, on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens. In that raid many were arrested for selling and buying false ids and other documents. But some claim that not everyone arrested was involved in false documents. And while the raid has upped the level of fear, it hasn’t stopped the false documents business in the area.
Should Undocumented Families of 9-11-01 Dead Be Given a Chance?
10:54 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|New York City|Politics · 1 Comment
11 Sep 2007That’s exactly what H.R. 1071, The September 11 Family Humanitarian Relief and Patriotism Act attempts to do. Officially 11 undocumented workers died as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center (the number could be more). Those 11 victims (only one wasn’t Latino) left behind 19 family members, husbands, wives and children here in the United States. The act would:
Provide permanent resident status adjustment or cancellation of removal and permanent resident status adjustment for an applicant alien who was: (1) on September 10, 2001, the spouse, child, or dependent son or daughter of a lawful nonimmigrant alien who died as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States; and (2) deemed to be a beneficiary of, and by, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001.
Is this akin to something like the Soriano case or is it as Republican Rep. Steve King from Iowa said earlier this year, a tragedy akin to a car crash, tragic but not one that should warrant exceptions in the law?
Via / El Diario / La Prensa and Washington Watch
Nevada Wants to Go English Only and Gets Called Out
1:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism|Immigration|language|Nevada · 3 Comments
13 Apr 2007
English-only measures are popping up all over the country in an effort to create more barriers for undocumented immigrants. One of the latest proposals comes from Sin City, Las Vegas Republican State Senator Bob Beer and when it was presented before the Government Affairs Committee, the proposal wasn’t met with open arms.
“Your proposal is racist in intent and is being proposed to divide Nevadans at the cost of the rights of Hispanic Nevadans,” said Rene Cantu of the Latin Chamber of Commerce in Las Vegas, adding that Latinos make up one fourth to one third of the state’s population.
“You’re not Hispanic and you apparently don’t understand what the Hispanics are up against in this community,” testified John Mendoza, a long-time public servant who has served as a judge and district attorney.
Via / Colorlines
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