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Prince William County : Racism Against Latinos

7:15 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|race|Virginia · Comments Off

28 Feb 2008

I’ve done a few post on that followed the development of the plan in Prince William County, Virgina to make it legal to discriminate against undocumented people, which in reality is a license to harass and racially profile Latinos. Don’t believe me you say? Just watch this video via ProInmigrant, that shows children berated by a man, demanding if they are citizens and speak English, not to mention the curses and lewd images the young people are exposed to. Check the video after the jump.

Anti-Immigrant Groups in Denver Protest Actions of Guatemalan Consul

9:56 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Guatemala|Immigration · Comments Off

18 Feb 2008

They say third time is a charm, but this wasn’t the case for the Denver-based consul of Guatemala, that renewed passports and embassy identifications for its citizens living and working in Utah, Colorado and Nevada. Anti-immigration groups protested the event because the Guatemalan nationals didn’t have to prove their status in the U.S. (why would they- this was for Guatemalan documents!). Protest groups said if the Guatemalans were legal immigrants, they wouldn’t need secondary forms of identification.

Via / Local News 8

Terrorist Caught at the Border and No He’s Not Mexican!

11:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|mexico · Comments Off

4 Feb 2008

Paul Brennan was arrested by officers at a border checkpoint in southern Texas on Monday night.

The US Border Patrol said Brennan was now in custody and was awaiting deportation.

It said he had been serving a 23-year prison sentence in Northern Ireland on charges of possessing a bomb and a firearm.

So I guess score for all those strong border activists. I think it’s interesting to note that despite the brown scare, the accused is a white man.

Via / BBC and the Mex Files

Who Says the Minutemen Aren’t Scary

9:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Immigration · Comments Off

4 Feb 2008

Groups of more than 2 white men on a corner make me nervous to begin with (tongue firmly planted in cheek) but for those who say Minutemen aren’t scary or up for some good ole-fashioned threatening, well I guess the above was staged.

Via / Pro-Inmigrant

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

Meet the New Elvira Arellano

30 Jan 2008

012908refuge_cst_feed_20080129_00_20_07_252%23h%3D282%26w%3D400 Following the footsteps of Elvira Arellano is Flor Crisostomo. Flor took sanctuary yesterday inside of Adalberto United Methodist Church, the same church where Elvira stayed with her son for over a year. Flor had been ordered to voluntarily leave (how can you be ordered to voluntarily do anything) the country by the 28th after being arrested in an immigration raid in April of 2006.

“I am taking a stand of civil disobedience to make America see what they are doing,” Crisostomo said in a statement that was translated into English. Speaking in broken English, she said immigrants are not terrorists but hard-working people contributing to the economy.
“The real problem is the color and the language,” she said.

Farmer’s Branch Texas Bans Undocumented from Renting

8:12 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|Politics|race|Texas · 7 Comments

23 Jan 2008

Ah there’s a reason I don’t like Texas, besides the U.S. President being from there. Yesterday, the city council of Farmer’s Branch passed a resolution that makes it illegal to rent apartments or homes to undocumented people.

The City Council unanimously approved Ordinance 2952, which would require all renters to pay a $5 fee and claim U.S. citizenship or legal immigration status to obtain an occupancy license from the city.

Failing to do so would result in fines of $400 and up.

I don’t even think this is legal, from a Constitutional standpoint and I hope this gets caught up in the legal system. If I were in Farmer’s Branch I would urge all Latinos (because you know that is who is being targeted here) to do massive rent-ins, try rent as much as you can and refuse to pay that fee, protest those fees. Denying people the right to shelter is a violation of human rights and it’s disgusting and racist.

Via / Dallas News and Despierta America News (tv)

Image Via / Houston Apartment Locators

Another Push for Lou Dobbs Presidential Bid

9:23 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|Politics · Comments Off

18 Jan 2008

ART.LOU.DC.CNN.jpg Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Earlier this week Americans for Legal Immigration PAC began a campaign to convince the CNN anchor Lou Dobbs to enter the presidential race if a so-called “pro-amnesty” candidate wins the Republican presidential nomination. Who are the pro-amnesty Republicans? According to ALIPAC, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and Rudy Giuliani.

After visiting the organizations website, I don’t know if they are scarier or if Lou Dobbs is.

Via / CNN.com

Arizona Poised to Be the Most Anti-Immigrant State Ever

8:08 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · arizona|children|Controversia|Immigration|Justice · Comments Off

6 Dec 2007

Anti-immigrant advocates call them anchor babies, children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants. By law these children are citizens of the U.S. but a group of Arizona citizens wants to change that.

The text of the proposal would ask hospital maternity wards to verify the immigration status of parents of newborns before issuing a birth certificate, which according to my reading of the Constitution, isn’t legal.

Those supporting the proposition have until next July 3 to get the 153,365 signatures they need to get the measure on the ballot.

Via / Univision.com

Brazilians Go Back Where They Came From

9:44 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Immigration · 6 Comments

4 Dec 2007

All to often anti-immigration advocates will shout, “Go back where you came from,” to immigrants challenged by the growing wave of anti-immigrant sentiment. A very interesting article today in the New York Times reveals that many undocumented Brazilian immigrants are taking that advice to heart. Many feel hopeless after the U.S’s failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Many have expired driver’s licenses that can’t be renewed thanks to tougher laws. The value of the dollar against the Brazilian real is dropping and the economy in their home country is improving.

“You put it all together, and why should you stay in an environment like that if you have a place like Brazil, where there’s hope, a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not a train to run you over?” said Pedro Coelho, a businessman in Mount Vernon, N.Y., who is known as the mayor of Brazilians in Westchester County. “Are they leaving? Yes, by the hundreds.”

In Massachusetts, says Fausto da Rocha, the founder of the Boston-area Brazilian Immigrant Center, his compatriots — many here illegally — are leaving by the thousands, some after losing homes in the subprime mortgage crisis. In New York and New Jersey, travel agents and others who sell airline seats say that one-way bookings to Brazil have more than doubled since last year, to about 150 daily from Kennedy International Airport, and that flights are sold out through February.

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