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Raid in Sheriff Joe’s Country Leaves a 9 Year Old Girl Without Parents

10:35 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Family| Immigration| arizona| children · 6 Comments

19 Jun 2009

I cannot wrap my mind around a few things at play here.

One, how anti-immigration activists can dehumanize the children of immigrants and immigrant children to the point that leaving a child without parents is ok. Or that a 9 year old’s murder is ok.

I also cannot understand how President Obama can keep postponing meetings on immigration and legislators drag their feet as if people are not being killed and children aren’t being left as defacto orphans by immigration enforcement.

One Hundred and Eleven Arrested in Florida Raids

2:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · Comments Off

10 Nov 2008

ice%20raid.jpg Building on Mala’s point about not falling into complacency during this time of post-election happiness, comes the word that there were massive ICE raids in Florida recently:

Two days after immigrant rights groups in southern Florida sent a letter asking president-elect Barack Obama to intervene and curb immigration raids, ICE announced the arrest of 111 undocumented immigrants in a new Florida raid, Univision reports. The five-day operation was carried out in Miami, Broward, Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa and surrounding areas. Those arrested in Florida are from Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Tunisia, Romania and Venezuela. Of the 111 arrested, 69 remain in ICE custody of ICE and 42 were released on parole.

Sign the petition to end these inhumane raids here.

Iowa Town Fears It May be Next in ICE Raids

9:57 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Labor| society · Comments Off

27 Aug 2008

The immigration raids which are dividing families and negatively impacting local economies just don’t seem to stop. After raids across the South, now a Midwestern town trembles as rumors swirl that it may be next on the list. The tiny town of Perry, Iowa, home to the Tyson chicken plant fears it may be next. Reports AP:

When Mayor Viivi Shirley watched TV news reports of the Postville raid, one of her first thoughts was, “Thank God it wasn’t Perry.”

Soon after hearing about the raid at Agriprocessors, where more than half the employees were found to be illegal immigrants, Shirley sought out the Tyson plant’s manager to ask about the legal status of its workers.

Tyson, of course, denies that is has employed any undocumented immigrants. I find that extremely hard to believe, and somehow I don’t see ICE buying it either.

We’ve been reporting on these raids as they happen over the last couple of months and looking at them one by one. But now I’m wondering what the big picture is. What was the push for these to start up this year? Who, specifically, is behind this initiative? And what — if any — impact will the presidential elections have on these raids?

What do you think?

Via / AP

Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance Calls for Support

7:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Immigration| Mississippi · Comments Off

26 Aug 2008

In light of lack of critical connection to immigrant communities displayed by our ‘leaders,’ it’s important that we do what we can to help out. The following was put out by MIRA! in Mississippi–and organization that was working well before the recent raids to minimize the reach of the raid in Mississippi. See after the cut for ways you can help out.

Monday, August 25, 2008

After answering the phone, Bill Chandler, director of MIRA! (the
Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, based in Jackson), blurted out,
“The ICE raid is in progress right now at Howard Industries, in
Laurel, Mississippi.” Laurel is a small town of about 18,000 people;
Howard Industries employs about 800 workers.

Latino groups call raids “Hitleresque”

1:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Immigration| Labor · 4 Comments

22 Dec 2006

In reponse to the recent immigration raids across the country, several Latino groups — among them LULAC, MALDEF and the Hispanic Bar Association — are joining forces to call for a moratorium on what they call racist witch hunts:

U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s.

They accused the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of “racial profiling,” or selective enforcement against Hispanics, for arresting 1,300 workers on immigration violations in December 12 raids at meatpacking plants in six states.

“We are demanding an end to these immigration raids, where they are targeting brown faces. That is major, major racial profiling, and that cannot be tolerated,” said Rosa Rosales, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, at a news conference.

“This unfortunately reminds me of when Hitler began rounding up the Jews for no reason and locking them up,” Democratic Party activist Carla Vela said. “Now they’re coming for the Latinos, who will they come for next?”

While Vela’s “who’s next?” comment is a good way to get other communities of color on board with the cause via empathy/fear, the fact is no one else is next. Latinos are the target of these raids and the migra in general, and no one else has anything to be worried about. Somehow I can’t imagine a raid at one of the Irish pubs here in SF, where countless undocumented Irish immigrants work.

Via / Yahoo! News

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