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Support MIRA: Stop the ICE Raids
MIRA is now in meeting with families affected by the raid to assess
what their needs are and also working with lawyers to deal with
arraignments of workers swept up in the raid. MIRA needs attorneys to
volunteer their services and help the detained workers.
Please visit the MIRA website to make an on-line donation at: www.yourmira.org
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My grandfathers, like many other illegal immigrants, helped usher in the world's greatest period of working class prosperity.
Read at Alternet.
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Many American hospitals are taking it upon themselves to repatriate seriously injured or ill immigrants because they cannot find nursing homes willing to accept them without insurance. New York Times If you don't have a New York Times logon, click below to read the story:
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The message has never been clearer: Become a citizen and then vote… before it’s too late.
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The true cost is to the national identity: the sense of who we are and
what we value. It will hit us once the enforcement fever breaks, when
we look at what has been done and no longer recognize the country that
did it.
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Robert Hildreth, a self-made multimillionaire who built his fortune
trading in Latin American bonds, wants to create a national fund that
would help post bail for undocumented workers seized by immigration
authorities.
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A leading voice in the movement for smart immigration reform surveys the political landscape and calls for a new direction.
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WATERLOO, Iowa — In temporary courtrooms at a fairgrounds here, 270 illegal (sic) immigrants were sentenced this week to five months in prison for working at a meatpacking plant with false documents. New York Times (If the article is moved, click on "Read more," below.)
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They are growing up in a racial and political climate in which Latinos’
subordinate status in Georgia
and in the Deep South bears more than a passing resemblance
to that of African-Americans who were living under Jim Crow.
Call it Juan
Crow...
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Unsurprisingly, hints of graft raise more questions about anti-immigrant hate group.
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Describing immigrants in dehumanizing terms like "illegals" turns
immigrant women into targets for sexist oppressors, from anti-choicers
to rapists.
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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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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
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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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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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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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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." |
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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." |
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Joshua Holland: What, the state got tough on immigrants but didn't turn into a workers' paradise? |
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"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 |
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