Posts Tagged ‘illegal immigration’
Latin@s and Obama linked by hate groups
1:18 pm By la Macha · Immigration · Comments Off
26 Feb 2009
I know that there’s still a big population of Latin@s that don’t care for Obama. I am growing to like the man–he seems to be actually following through on a lot of his promises, and for that I give the man props even if politically I am much more to the left than he is.
But there’s still a lot of Latin@s that don’t like him–which is ironic because there’s a growing number of white folks that are going the KKK way–because of him and us. From CNN comes this report:
The center’s report, “The Year in Hate,” found the number of hate groups grew by 54 percent since 2000. The study identified 926 hate groups — defined as groups with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people — active in 2008. That’s a 4 percent jump, adding 38 more than the year before.
What makes this year’s report different is that hate groups have found two more things to be angry about — the nation’s first African-American president and an economy that is hemorrhaging jobs. For the past decade, Latino immigration has fueled the growth of hate groups.
Reading the whole report is pretty terrifying. And I am in no way meaning to imply a sense of “solidarity” (or that Latin@s should “like” Obama) between Obama and Latin@s just because we’re both being targeted by hate groups.
Rather instead, I guess I’m wondering is there any way to connect the politics of Obama (whatever that may mean to individuals or communities of Latin@s) to the politics of “Latin@” or “Immigration” or “Illegal immigrant” (which inevitably means Latin@)? Not sure if I’m being clear here–it’s sort of an abstract idea I’m working with.
I guess to put it at it’s very basic kernal of thought–I wonder if there’s any links between Latin@s and Obama that we need to think through on an individual or community level?
What do you think?
The Problem With the Good Vs. Bad Immigrant Narrative
1:46 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Media| race · Comments Off
1 Sep 2008All throughout the Democratic National Convention, immigration was brought up in two contexts: good vs. bad. Certainly this discourse will be repeated during the RNC.
“Good” immigrants, according to the politicos and the mainstream media that parrots them, are the ones who follow the laws, and when they don’t face the consequences, in the form of raids, separation from families, deportation, incarceration and fear. “Good” immigrants work hard and don’t make too much noise. They don’t have more children then they can afford and they don’t live on welfare. They speak English and study hard and get good grades and try to go to college. Within this context there are bills. Bills so that “good” immigrants and their children can go to college and pay in-state rates (like the DREAM Act).
March to Protest the Border Wall
3:09 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Immigration · Comments Off
18 Aug 2008
A peaceful March is being called by the Citizens Against the Border Wall starting Wed. Aug 27 through Sunday Aug 31, 2008
. They have asked all PRO Bloggers to help announce this event and ask all citizens that oppose the Border Wall to March in Peace with them.
Here is a breakdown of the August 27-31protest march against the border wall.
August 27(Wed). Kick off cultural event in Fort Hancock.
August 28 (Thu). From Fort Hancock, walk to Alamo Alto.
August 29 (Fri). From Alamo Alto, walk to Tornillo, hold community event. End in Fabens.
August 30 (Sat). From Fabens, walk to San Elizario, hold community event. End in San Ysleta del Sur with the Tiguas community.
August 31(Sun). Morning ceremony in San Ysleta del Sur . Then to El Paso. After arriving in El Paso, a bi-national event will be held in Anapra, Chihuahua and Sundland Park, NM.
For More Information about the March, contact Javier Perez (915) 474-4930 or via email chamucos00@hotmail.com
National Immigrant Bond Fund
10:14 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Immigration| Justice| Money · Comments Off
28 Jul 2008
With ICE raiding communities across the United States, people are left scrambling dealing with the political, personal, and economic aftermath.One important front in the struggle for human rights is ensuring access to a fair legal process to help avoid deportation and stop the fragmentation of families.
Legal experts across the nation agree that the best chance immigrant detainees have to avoid deportation is to post bond immediately and contest their case in the courts. Posting bond sets jurisdiction in the district where the arrest took place, thereby avoiding ICE’s rapid transfer of detainees outside the district. Posting bond also increases the detainee’s ability to argue his/her case for a stay of deportation before a judge. Lastly detainees able to post bond have better access to community resources and family support.
Border Patrol Goes After Nascar Crowd for New Recruits
1:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Sports · 1 Comment
24 Jul 2008
Not to stereotype or anything, but what kind of recruit does the U.S. Border Patrol hope to find by sponsoring a NASCAR racer? The same kind of candidate that they would get by having a Blackwater sponsored racer?
Why not recruit from the San Diego Minutemen? Seems they have the whole speech down packed based on how they acted outside the NCLR conference.
If NASCAR wants to gain fans in Mexico they may need to rethink their approach.
Via / Machochip, The Spy Who Billed Me, Citizen Orange, NASCAR
ICE Swoops Down on Ohio Restaurants
9:23 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Ohio · Comments Off
24 Jul 2008
We told you it was only a matter of time before we were announcing and denouncing the latest ICE raid. Yesterday ICE targeted 8 restaurants in Northern Ohio and arrested 58 people.
All those arrested were citizens of Mexico and working at Casa Fiesta, a chain of Mexican restaurants in Ashland, Fremont, Norwalk, Oberlin, Oregon, Sandusky, Vermillion and Youngstown, Ohio, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement.
It said the raid was the culmination of more than a yearlong investigation.
Of the 58 arrested, 54 were men. Three of the four women were released on their own recognizance on humanitarian grounds, ICE said. They are still required to appear before a federal immigration judge who will determine whether they have a legal right to remain in the United States.
Via / Reuters
Children Choosing Not What Game to Play But If to Go Into Foster Care
1:57 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| children · Comments Off
13 Jun 2008
An entire generation of children of immigrants, mostly Latino children, are being forced to make a decision if they should go to a country they no nothing of or enter a system that has proven itself a dangerous track for children, the foster care children.
Is this the new tracking system for children of color? How are children expected to learn ABC’s when they have the fear of being separated from their parents? How are children expected to be good citizens of a country that saw their right to grow up in a family as meaningless? What civic lesson is the U.S. government teaching these young people?
New Report on How Cable Media Skews Immigration Issue
12:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Media| Politics| TV| race · Comments Off
22 May 2008Turn on CNN, Fox News, and any other number of cable news networks and you’re likely to see and hear a skewed vision of the state of immigration in the U.S. and it’s impact. No surprise here. Media Matters Action Network just released a study, Fear and Loathing in Prime Time Immigration Myths and Cable News, that puts some numbers together to show just how warped this vision is. For example, our pal Lou Dobbs has dedicated 70% of his shows to the issue of “illegal immigration”. Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly, and Glenn Beck specifically have made careers on making the myths surrounding “scary brown people without papers” part of the media and general consciousness.
During 2007, the alleged connection between illegal immigration and crime was discussed on 94 episodes of Lou Dobbs Tonight, 66 episodes of The O’Reilly Factor, and 29 episodes of Glenn Beck.During 2007, the allegation that undocumented immigrants drain social services and/or don’t pay taxes was discussed on 71 episodes of Lou Dobbs Tonight, 13 episodes of Glenn Beck, and eight episodes of The O’Reilly Factor.
Dobbs and Beck have perpetuated two related myths, that there are plans to construct a “NAFTA Superhighway” running from Mexico to Canada, and that there are plans to join Mexico, Canada, and the United States in a “North American Union” similar to the European Union. Dobbs has discussed the fictional North American Union on 56 separate programs during the past two years. (These two myths were also given a boost by Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, who pushed the ideas on the campaign trail.)
All three programs have presented as fact the “reconquista” myth, which states that there is a movement afoot for Mexico to take over the American Southwest.
Lou Dobbs Tonight has also been the show on which viewers are told about a mythical explosion of leprosy cases due to illegal immigration, and a mythical epidemic of voter fraud due to illegal immigration.
The report does an excellent job at countering the myths with facts and stats, just like the right wing fear mongers do.
It’s really worth reading.
Check out the report here.
Check out a video to go with the report after the jump.
U.S. Family Values : Immigrant Children Beaten in Detention
12:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Justice| children · Comments Off
20 May 2008
Earlier today I wrote about the U.S. is itching to build more immigrant family detention facilities. Besides the denying of basic rights that we have seen going on in such facilities, not surprisingly there is outright physical violence on top of the violence of detention, with minors as the victims.
A new lawsuit filed against a private contractor who runs an immigrant child detention center claims nine teenagers were beaten and abused by employees who work for Cornell Companies. The company has been cited by immigration officials for safety problems in the past. The Hector Garza facility in San Antonio handles young immigrant “males with serious behavioral and psychological impairments”.
“I think the general American has no idea these kids even exist,” said Susan Watson, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid attorney for the nine plaintiffs, “When our own government treats them this way, they deserve their day in court,” she said.
Mother’s Day at the Border
9:57 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Women| children| honduras| mexico · Comments Off
12 May 2008
Flowers, chocolates, cards, perfume. These are the most common mother’s day gifts. Along the U.S. Mexico border, all some mothers and daughters wanted was to hug each other.
You can walk to the U.S. border, Francelia Menchaca’s immigration lawyer advised her, but don’t put your fingers through its fence. It may hinder her immigration paperwork, the lawyer said…..The Menchacas, who drove from Phoenix, are among those who gather here annually on Mexico’s Mother’s Day along the kinder portion of an otherwise unforgiving border that separates the United States and Mexico….
“We’re hoping that by next year, they have their immigration papers,” she said, clutching a family photo album, as her grandchildren gathered daisies for her and pushed them through the fence.
This is the human aspect of the boder debate that the pundits want to gloss over. Too many want people to look at this as strictly an issue of laws and numbers, not people, faces, women, children, and their families and how they are separated by borders and laws.
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