Immigration

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except "deportees"?                    From Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)
.                                                                                             by Woody Guthrie



The Minutemen Scam
Unsurprisingly, hints of graft raise more questions about anti-immigrant hate group.
 
Sexual Abuse Fueled by Abusive Immigration Language

Describing immigrants in dehumanizing terms like "illegals" turns immigrant women into targets for sexist oppressors, from anti-choicers to rapists.

 Read at AlterNet

 
Free Spanish and English Classes

The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment, with support from the
Felix Pinckney Community Center and Charleston Peace, will offer
free ESL classes (beginning and advanced) and free beginning
Spanish classes, starting on January 15.

Time:         Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 to 8:30
Location:    Felix Pinckney Community Center
.                 4790 Hassell Street (at East Montague Ave.)
                North Charleston, SC 29405 
Contact:    anna(at)charlestonpeace.net: 312-9741, or Yadira Banda: 747-3744 
(click below for a flyer with a small map to the Felix Pinckney Center) 

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MAQUILAPOLIS
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A film by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre

Friday, September 21, 6pm
Education Center 118
College of Charleston

MAQUILAPOLIS is a documentary about (and by) workers in Tijuana's assembly factories, the maquiladoras. The project is a collaboration between filmmaker Vicky Funari, artist Sergio De La Torre, and Tijuana women's organization Grupo Factor X, with the participation of the human rights organization Global Exchange and the environmental activism non-profit The Environmental Health Coalition.
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Volunteer Spanish Instructor needed

 

The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFÉ) is currently conducting a  course in English as a Second Language (ESL). The class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30p.m. at the ILA Hall, 1142 Morrison Drive in Charleston. There is interest in a Spanish class to be held at the same time, but we need  a volunteer instructor. If you can help, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 
The DREAM Act: a Nightmare for Immigrant Students
by Eduardo Martinez Zapata

Democrat and Republican Senators are working hard to make the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act into an amendment of the 2008 Defense appropriations Bill currently in the Senate.
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The Immigration Deal
These articles deal directly or indirectly with the immigration deal between Democrats and Republicans.

MALDEF: IMMIGRATION: A Bill In The Senate But It Must Be The Right One

Sally Kohn: Corn-Fueled Migration

New York Times editorial: Frankenstein Immigration Deal Angers Left, Right and Center

James Ridgeway: Attention Immigrants: Thanks for Your Hard Work. Now Leave.

Elisabeth Malkin: Graft Mars the Recruitment of Mexican Guest Workers

Barry Grey: Bipartisan Senate plan would deepen exploitation of immigrant workers

Cynthia L. Cooper: Women Raise Heat on Immigration Debate

David Bacon: The Story of the Smithfield Raid

Noam Chomsky: Starving The Poor

Diana Cariboni: Global Campaign Calls for Tackling the Roots of Poverty
 
Attention Immigrants: Thanks for Your Hard Work.
Now Leave.
What Could Be Better For Business Than A Workforce That Toils For Next To Nothing, Drives Down Wages For Everyone Else, Can’t Protest or Unionize, Then Goes Away When You’re Done With Them? Your Guide To The Guest Worker Program.
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Women Raise Heat on Immigration Debate

  Female immigrants are drawing increased attention as Congress heads into debate next week on immigration reform, Cynthia L. Cooper reports today. Female domestic workers and abused women who fear deportation are two groups of women high on advocates' radar.

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Free trade agreements spur immigration
Gina-Marie Cheeseman:  According to the Economic Policy Institute's 2001 report, "Mexican wages have decreased 27 percent since NAFTA, while hourly income from labor is down 40 percent."
 
Human Junk Mail
Operation "Return to Sender":  "The cynical name given to this even more cynical operation implies a sender, a receiver—and an object. The object, or rather objects, are migrant workers and their families."
 
Colorado replaces immigrant workers with prison (slave) labor
Joshua Holland: What, the state got tough on immigrants but didn't turn into a workers' paradise?
 
Families Behind Bars: Jailing Children of Immigrants
Thanks to US immigration policy, children (including infants and toddlers) whose parents are in immigration courts, are being locked up at detention centers.
 
Trade unions endorse action plan to defend migrant rights
"The International Trade Union Confederation today reiterated its determination to prioritise the fight for the respect of migrants' rights."
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Justice Deported
By David Bacon
The American Prospect, web edition, 12.14.06

In 1947, Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the crash of a plane carrying Mexican immigrant farm workers back to the border. In haunting lyrics he describes how it caught fire as it flew low overLos Gatos Canyon, near Coalinga at the edge of California's SanJoaquin Valley. --  More
 
Why Unions Must Support The Immigrant Rights Movement
"Union density will continue to decline, unless organizing is escalated and combined with a broad new social and economic justice vision and agenda."
 
Immigration Pays Off—For Americans!
The report titled "Undocumented Immigrants In Texas: A Financial Analysis of the Impact to the State Budget and Economy" found that "the absence of the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants in Texas in fiscal 2005 would have been a loss to our gross state product of $17.7 billion. Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received."
 
Collateral Damage on the Mexican Border
"The body count keeps growing as the crackdown intensifies against people who were born 'on the wrong side' of a geographical boundary."
 
Mexico's corn farmers see their livelihoods wither away
"The Bush administration has sought to control immigration at the border, but that's virtually impossible," said Harley Shaiken, director of UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies. "The beginnings of immigration are in the displacement of farmers in Mexico."
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Six Immigration Lies, Dispelled
"Immigrants aren't animals or terrorists -- and they're not sucking the nation's economy dry."
 

US Border Town

"1,200 Miles From the Border:

Georgia's 'carpet capital' relies on immigrants."

 
      
                         



                      
 
Immigration Reform:
Won't Give Average American Job Security
 
Immigration Reform Won't Give Average American Job Security
"Congress cannot effectively address illegal immigration - or any other major domestic economic issue - without first finding ways to strengthen and protect America's middle-class jobs, the backbone of our economy."
 
The Phonies on Undocumented
Immigration
"...reducing inequality is the only sure way to reduce the threat."
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Washington Post Comparison of U.S. Senate and House Immigration Bills(The comparison has been copied to this website in case the link does not work):
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