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- U.S. Immigration System Is a Broken Behemoth By : Jim Lobe
The United States has been steadily criminalizing immigration violations, while increasing the severity of penalties for non-citizens who violate immigration laws. There is this tremendously huge detention infrastructure in the United States, which surpasses the entire European Union in terms of the number of people detained and the number of facilities in use. - Latino-Bashing: GOP Flirting With Permanent Minority Status By : Janet Murguia
The National Council of La Raza honored Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in 2007 for his work on immigration. "We are going to solve this [immigration] problem," Graham said that night. "We're not going to run people down. We're not going to scapegoat people. We're going to tell the bigots to shut up, and we're going to get this right." Now, Graham talks about immigrant women giving birth in the United States as a "drop and leave" calculation -- as if describing animals. - Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions By : Eduardo Porter
As the debate over Social Security heats up, the estimated seven million or so illegal immigrant workers in the United States are now providing the system with a subsidy of as much as $7 billion a year. - Arizona's immigration law: aimed at criminals or at workers? By : Hector Tobar
Some people look at an impoverished immigrant laborer and immediately think "illegal," with all the stigma that word carries. Others see that same person and think: There goes a worker. Thankfully, most Americans can see hysteria about the "illegals" for what it really is. - American Immigration Gulag: No Visa, No School, Many New York Districts Say By : Nina Bernstein
Three decades after the Supreme Court ruled that immigration violations cannot be used as a basis to deny children equal access to a public school education, one in five school districts in New York State is routinely requiring a child's immigration papers as a prerequisite to enrollment, or asking parents for information that only lawful immigrants can provide. - America Immigration Gulag: For Those Wrongly Deported, Court Rulings Come To Late By : Nina Bernstein
The Obama administration, which is on track to deport a record 400,000 people this fiscal year, according to government statistics, has shown no eagerness to open legal doors. Now two dozen legal rights groups are calling for a process that would let immigrants reopen their cases undera ruling last month. - Arizona's New Immigration Law Gives 'Racism a Place To Hide' By : Terry Greene Sterling
Arizona's White Supremacist Problem: First, a hate group says it gave money to Gov. Brewer. Then, an alleged neo-Nazi surfaced, doing desert patrols. The new face of the white supremacist isn't the guy with a sheet and a burning cross, it is the more highly educated person with a professed focus on family values, national identity, and border security." -- Terry Greene Sterling on the race issue now dogging Sen. McCain's campaign. - Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah may follow Arizona's lead on immigration law By : Michael W. Savage
Attention is focused on Arizona and the federal government's challenge to the state's strict new immigration law, but three other states could adopt similar legislation next year. The Obama administration sued Arizona in federal court Tuesday, charging that the state law usurps federal authority, would hamper immigration enforcement and would lead to police harassment of those who have no proof of lawful status. The government asked that a federal judge stop the law from taking effect July 29. - Sexual Violence Flourishes in U.S. Immigration Detention Centers Without Scrutiny By : Lovisa Stannow
Sexual Abuse of Immigration Detainees Highlights Need for Oversight: For months, a male officer at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, an immigration detention facility in Texas, sexually assaulted women in his custody. The assailant had access to the female detainees while transporting them by himself, in blatant violation of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policies. - A right-wing schism over immigration reform?; A clash between evangelicals and immigration foes could crack the conservative coalition By : Suzy Khimm
When some of the nation's top evangelical leaders threw their weight behind immigration reform, liberal advocates were pleased to receive help from an unexpected ally. But immigration foes saw it as nothing less than treachery. - Anti-immigration movement steeped in racism: Here's the proof By : Devona Walker
Anyone who criticizes Arizona's immigration law, requiring that law enforcement stop anyone they suspect of being an undocumented or illegal immigrant, has been criticized -- accused of playing the race card or race-baiting. - The Only Real Way to Fix Immigration By : Tim Wise
Democratic Party leaders recently introduced their latest proposal to reform U.S. immigration policy. The proposal, which is given little chance of passage in a polarized election year, offers carrots and sticks in an attempt to bring some semblance of order to a broken and outdated policy that has left nearly 12 million people in the United States without legal documents. The carrots are few and shriveled and the sticks are large. - Calderon received - Brewer snubbed - America dissed By : Michael Bresciani
This may perhaps be the first article I have ever written that would be insulted with more than three paragraphs and a conclusion. It may be that I should just pick the top 100 blog sites on the web and submit a one liner as a question for general debate. What is the question? I’m glad you asked. - 'Gulag' Nation: Rushed From Haiti, Then Jailed for Lacking Visas By : Nina Bernstein
More than two months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, at least 30 survivors who were waved onto planes by Marines in the chaotic aftermath are prisoners of the United States immigration system, locked up since their arrival in detention centers in Florida. - U.S. Immigration Gulag: How One Marijuana Cigarette May Lead to Deportation By : Nina Bernstein
When a police officer in this Long Island suburb found a marijuana cigarette in Jerry Lemaine's pocket one night in January 2007, a Legal Aid lawyer counseled him to plead guilty. Under state statutes, the penalty was only a $100 fine, and though Mr. Lemaine had been caught with a small amount of marijuana years earlier as a teenager, that case had been dismissed - Message/Draft Document: Protesting Against Apartheid Policies in Arizona By : Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
As a group of educators, students, workers, organizers and immigration activists who live in Arizona, we are fighting against SB 1070 daily. Because we are at the epicenter of the anti-immigrant movement, we invite organizers and activists from throughout the country to join us in our actions and protests in Arizona. - Don't Cry for Me, Arizona! A Good Lesson to Oromo, Somali, Ogadeni and Other US-based Immigrants By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act was signed into law for Arizona by governor Jan Brewer on April 23, 2010. As the strictest anti-immigration measure in decades, it drew great opposition. As the act makes it a state misdemeanor for a foreign to be on Arizona’s territory without carrying legal documents, and cracks down on all those who might shelter immigrants, its constitutionality is challenged. - They're Not Illegal, They're Heroes: Why Immigrants Are Right to Chase the American Dream By : Sally Kohn
We need to stop calling undocumented immigrants in the United States "illegal". A more appropriate term is: New American Heroes. - Just be silent and we won't call you a racist By : Michael Bresciani
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me,” is that childhood mantra that no longer seems to be true. Is it time to modify the old saying to “Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will drive me crazy?” - It's Not About Arizona, It's About The Illegal Alien No. 1. -- Barack Obama By : Frank Rich
If Only Arizona Were the Real Problem -- Don't blame it all on Arizona. The Grand Canyon State simply happened to be in the right place at the right time to tilt over to the dark side. Its hysteria is but another symptom of a political virus that can't be quarantined and whose cure is as yet unknown. - Arizona: The Wrong Answer By : Desmond Tutu
The problem of migrating populations is not going to go away any time soon. If anyone should know this, it should be Americans, many of whom landed here themselves to escape persecution, famine or conflict. With the eyes of the world now on them, Arizona has the opportunity to create a new model for dealing with the pitfalls, and help the nation as a whole find its way through the problems of illegal immigration. But to work, it must be a model that is based on a deep respect for the essential human rights Americans themselves have grown up enjoying. - Immigrant reform must protect rights By : Jose Miguel Insulza
The causes of global migration are many. But for Latin America and the Caribbean, migration is driven by socioeconomic conditions. The migratory flow of citizens from this region will continue as long as they can find better opportunities, unavailable to them in their native lands. Regardless of any intellectual argument with respect to job creation, the measurable disparity in economic opportunity is likely to continue to drive all forms of immigration and the related challenges. - Arizona has become a cartoon of intolerance to much of America By : Randy Archibold
The state resisted adopting Martin Luther King's birthday as a holiday years after most other states embraced it. The sheriff in its largest county forces inmates to wear pink underwear, apparently to assault their masculinity. Residents may take guns almost anywhere, but they may not cut down a cactus. The rest of the nation may scoff or grumble, but Arizona, one of the last truly independent Western outposts, carries on. - Immigration Stories, From Shadows to Spotlight By : Nina Bernstein
Frail and dignified at 88, the man leaned on his cane and smiled as the story of his immigration in 1936 flashed behind him on a museum wall. Like tens of thousands of others who managed to come to the United States from China during a 60-year period when the law singled them out for exclusion, the man, Tun Funn Hom, had entered as a "paper son," with false identity papers that claimed his father was a native citizen. - Warning To The GOP: Stop Using Immigrants as Punching Bags, or Else! By : Eliseo Medina
It's just the start of the 2010 election season, and Republican candidates are already lining up to use the same old anti-immigrant rhetoric. - The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's 'Softer' Immigration Enforcement By : David Bacon
Ana Contreras would have been a competitor for the national tai kwon do championship team this year. She's 14. For six years she's gone to practice instead of birthday parties, giving up the friendships most teenagers live for. Then two months ago disaster struck. Her mother Dolores lost her job. The money for classes was gone, and not just that. - Immigration Opponents Take a Turn for the Worse By : Erin Rosa
As grassroots support for the pro-immigration reform March for America grows, anti-immigration groups and their allies are trying to use racial tension to stop the momentum. Opposition groups like NumbersUSA and the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC announced plans this week to partner with Tea Party activists in response to the event, which is expected to draw as many as 100,000 people to the National Mall on March 21. - The Case for Health Insurance for Illegals By : Andrew Romano
Wait a Second. Why Shouldn't We Insure Illegals? -- Insuring undocumented immigrants might be unpopular, but it would be good for the economy. - Simone Troller’s Insightful on Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Europe. By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
HRW World Report 2010 - The Huehuetlahtolli (Ancient Guidances) re Sheriff Arpaio By : Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
Beware of the new Sheriff in town; he's actually an old coyote.
He denigrates, dehumanizes and belittles; he's an eater of flesh.
pink underwear, pinstripes and ball and chains are his trademark.
He's actually an old sheriff who lives in another century, in the Wild West.
This is Sheriff Arpaio, of Maricopa County, Apartheid Arizona, .... - Leticia X is Human By : Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
I'll refer to her as Leticia X. She is undocumented but has been in this country since the age of three and is a top student at her high school. Yet, unless the law changes soon, she will be unable to continue with her studies. In gripping testimony, she tells my students at the University of Arizona that it is wrong that she will not be able to attend college next year: "I consider myself a U.S. citizen. It's the only country I've ever known." - Neither walls or moats can hold them back By : Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
That aside, germs, viruses and diseases do not discriminate nor do they ask for legal documentation. They cross borders freely in both directions as neither walls or moats can hold them back. This is the perfect example of why health policies should be in the hands of health professionals, not ideologue politicians. - President Obama is no Dobbs or Arpaio.... By : Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
On the issue of immigration, President Obama is no Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio - the face of racial profiling. Neither is he CNN's resident xenophobe, Lou Dobbs, whose mission in life seems to be to lead the nation into an ethnic cleansing frenzy. Yet up to this point, President Obama's immigration policies simply appear to be enhanced versions of President Bush's anti-immigrant policies. - Naturalized Immigrants Should Be Eligible For The Presidency of The United States By : Michael Lind
Some of the greatest traitors in American history have been natural-born citizens -- Early American traitors included "natural-born" citizen Benedict Arnold, who defected to the British during the Revolution. Jefferson's natural-born vice-president Aaron Burr murdered Hamilton in a duel. "Birthers" say Obama isn't "natural born" and can't be president. Let's make their whole delusional argument moot. - Stalled on Immigration -- Latinos are beginning to wonder why Democrats can't deliver By : Ruben Navarrette Jr.
The spell is wearing off now that Latinos are beginning to wonder why Democrats can't deliver immigration reform even when they have power. Answer: Because not all of them want to deliver. - American Immigration Detention Concentration Camps -- Immigrants Have Few Rights By : Michelle Roberts
An official Immigration and Customs Enforcement database, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, showed a U.S. detainee population of exactly 32,000 on the evening of Jan. 25. The data show that 18,690 immigrants had no criminal conviction, not even for illegal entry or low-level crimes like trespassing. More than 400 of those with no criminal record had been incarcerated for at least a year. A dozen had been held for three years or more; one man from China had been locked up for more .. - Why Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving the U.S. By : Vivek Wadhwa
Immigrants are critical to the country's long-term economic health. Despite the fact that they constitute only 12% of the U.S. population, immigrants have started 52% of Silicon Valley's technology companies and contributed to more than 25% of our global patents. They make up 24% of the U.S. science and engineering workforce holding bachelor's degrees and 47% of science and engineering workers who have PhDs. Immigrants have co-founded firms such as Google, Intel, eBay, and Yahoo!. - Canada Immigration: What You Need to Know By : Chris Robertson
Because the immigration process can be so tricky, it is helpful to engage the services of a Canadian immigration consultant who can assess your chances of qualification and smooth the way for successful immigration. - Expatriate Women in Asia: Getting a Life By : Jacqueline Reischel
Due to the large number of working spouses resisting their partner’s assignment abroad, employers have realized the need to provide solutions to reduce this. Despite the initial resistance, experienced expatriates like to pass on this advice: there will never be a dull moment and time flies. Although you may not be able to imagine at first, there are many chances to get a busy life if you motivate yourself to do this. - Minorities or Immigrants? The Kven and Sami Peoples of Norway By : Sam Vaknin
During the 18th and 19th centuries, many Finns - destitute farmers and fishermen - emigrated from their homeland and from Sweden and settled in the inhospitable northern reaches of Norway. - Beijing's Olympic law on immigration: redefining the fate of African migrants By : Tongkeh Joseph
African migrants in China now face new realities quite similar to the experiences they have had in Europe, America and other parts of the world for decades. This rising "Afro-phobia" in China comes in the backdrop of what the out side world sees as a moment of excellent relations between Africa and China. This article assesses the impact of Beijing's immigration laws on the growing African migrant community in China. - Immigrant Deaths in U.S. Detention 'Gulags' Go Unnoticed By : Nina Bernstein
As the country debates stricter enforcement of immigration laws, thousands of people who are not American citizens are being locked up for days, months or years while the government decides whether to deport them. Some have no valid visa; some are legal residents, but have past criminal convictions; others are seeking asylum from persecution. Death is a reality in any jail, and the medical neglect of inmates is a perennial issue. - Gedrosia of Past Times, Today’s Tyrannized Baluchistan By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Baluchistan reflects some of Asia’s bleakest pages of oppression and tyranny. For centuries the Baluchis were part of the Iranian Empire, at a time the concept of ‘nation’ did not exist in they way we use it today. With the division of the area between the colonial British and the nationalist monarchical regime of Iran, the Baluchis found their land divided by otherwise incomprehensible borders. - Help for immigrants divides congregations By : Andrea Hopkins
Helping illegal immigrants has become an unpopular business in America. On the presidential campaign trail, Republican and Democratic candidates alike have backed down from any previous support for illegal immigrants, and ordinary Americans are treading just as carefully in the face of a growing backlash against the 12 million people here illegally. - The two faces of the anti-immigrant bigots in the Republican Party By : Nicole Colson
PLENTY OF politicians are willing to look the other way as their anti-immigrant supporters make common cause with the far right. These bigots in suits have only helped move anti-immigrant racism from the margins into the political mainstream. THE VILEST anti-immigrant rhetoric is now accepted as perfectly legitimate in mainstream politics. - The Immigration Swamp By : Staff Writer
THE IDEA that 12 million illegal residents of the United States can be induced to quit the country en masse within four months is absurd on its face -- a non-starter in logistical, humanitarian, political, diplomatic, commercial and economic terms that would leave an indelible stain on this country for years. - Texas Vigilante Joe Horn - A Cold-Blooded Murderer! By : James Opiko
Joe Horn - A vigilante emboldened by the on-going "racist anti-immigrant" rhetoric. This stupid "hillbilly" must be punished to set an example to the rest who might want to do the same. - Editorial Observer -- What Part of 'Illegal' Don't You Understand? By : Lawrence Downes
America has a big problem with illegal immigration, but a big part of it stems from the word "illegal." It pollutes the debate. It blocks solutions. Used dispassionately and technically, there is nothing wrong with it. Used as an irreducible modifier for a large and largely decent group of people, it is badly damaging. And as a code word for racial and ethnic hatred, it is detestable. - Integration of Muslims means Disintegration of Europe By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Too little, too late: this expression characterizes the post September 11th European approach to the (important for the Europeans) issue of the social integration of the Muslim populations. - Immigration Reform Is Needed, After Bush By : Stewart A. Alexander
A majority of Americans want immigration reform; however they don't want reform by sacrificing the rights of workers, immigrants and their families. Also, the guest worker program contained in the immigration bill was a temporary work program and was an invitation for abuse of emigrant workers. - US Immigration Judgeships - Infested With GOP Loyalists By : Amy Goldstein
The Bush administration has over the last six years, increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants. These appointments, all made by the attorney general, have begun to reshape a system of courts in which judges, ruling alone, exercise broad powers — deporting each year nearly a quarter-million immigrants, who have limited rights to appeal and no right to an attorney. - CNN's Lou Dobbs - The Minister of 'Propaganda and Enlightenment' By : James Opiko
By "stroking and massaging" the dormant "hate genes" residing within the "nativists," Lou Dobbs and other right-wing demagogues are making the process of legislating the immigration issue immensely torturous, if not impossible. It is my opinion that, Lou Dobbs is a tactical propagandist worse than Dr. Joseph Goebbels — "Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda in Nazi Germany." - Everyone will benefit with immigration reform (part #4) By : Donna Poisl
A few days ago, when this series started, I listed several areas where we will all benefit when there is immigration reform which would legalize the millions of people living here illegally; the military, Social Security, our economy, our future economy, education $ national security. The first column was about our economy, the second one was about the military and Social Security, the next one was about language and education. This last one will discuss national security & touch on some others. - Everyone will benefit with immigration reform (part #3) By : Donna Poisl
A few days ago I listed several areas where we will all benefit when there is immigration reform which would legalize the millions of people living here illegally; the military, Social Security, our economy, our future economy, education and national security. The first column was about our economy, the next one was about the military and Social Security, this one will continue with language and education. - Everyone will benefit with immigration reform, part #2 By : Donna Poisl
Yesterday I listed several areas in which every person in this country will benefit when there is immigration reform which would legalize the millions of people living here illegally; the military, Social Security, our economy, our future economy, education and national security. That column only talked about our economy, this one will continue with the others, starting with Social Security and our military. - Everyone will benefit with immigration reform By : Donna Poisl
Everyone in this country will benefit if a good plan is put into place. This even includes the people who are so completely against doing anything about the issue. The people who say all illegal immigrants and undocumented workers should be "rounded up and sent back where they came from" will benefit just as much as those who say we should find a way to keep them here. Almost every aspect of our lives will be affected positively. - Presidential Candidate: Immigrants Beaten Coast to Coast By : Stewart A. Alexander
Stewart A. Alexander, a president hopeful with the Peace and Freedom Party, is rejecting all elements of the Bush immigration package "from A to Z." - Free Trade Agreements Spur Illegal Immigration By : Gina-Marie Cheeseman
NAFTA is an acronym which should be mentioned every time the topic of illegal immigration comes up. - Guest Worker Bill in Congress will Expand Exploitation By : Gina-Marie Cheeseman
The Southern Poverty Law Center recently released a report about the guest worker program. The report likened the program to slavery. - Border Fence - The Cost is Far Too High By : Stewart A. Alexander
Any attempts to stem the flow of immigration by building walls will never succeed while the irresistible economic facts dictate emigration for unemployed Mexican workers. Even so, an attempt to secure the entire border will cost several times the estimates $49 billion in the CRS report, as the fence voted by Congress only covers one-third of a long border. - Part II: Republican Immigration Disaster and a Democratic President We Can't Elect By : Edwin A. Sumcad
When we X-ray the anatomy of the Republican defeat in the last midterm election we have an eye-catching reading of the following: GOP's immigration disaster, the American public's desperate need for change, and Americans voting against the Republicans, not necessarily voting for the Democrats because they think they are more likable or smarter and more honest than the Republicans. - America these days - Immigrants celebrating unique differences as minority group By : John Mulaa
Immigrants tend to flock together for a whole host of reasons: the need to connect with those like them, to relive moments of things they experienced back home, and a natural desire to recreate, to some degree, the society they left behind. - Smokescreen - Activists say a Black American anti-immigration movement is gathering steam By : Brentin Mock
In recent months, Anderson and a smattering of other African-American anti-immigration activists, most notably longtime Los Angeles homeless activist Ted Hayes (see interviews with both men), have become the front men for a campaign orchestrated and funded by white anti-immigration leaders. The campaign aims to convert black Americans to their cause, and simultaneously to provide groups like the Minuteman Project and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) with cover against accusa - Illegal Immigration - A Native American Indian's View By : Carlos Estrella
As a descendant of LEGAL immigrants, it's plain to see that there is strong evidence that the motives of those in these so-called border protectors are more than a little suspect. - Immigrant Hatred Kills: The Real Problem -- Ileto Murdered For Taking 'American' Jobs By : Edwin A. Sumcad
The more immigrant haters are booed in public, the more they become vicious in their opposition to any humane treatment of illegal aliens in the country. With attitudinal murder in mind, they show their ugly mood in many threatening ways, scaring the wit out of the confused public -- They come here illegally and take our jobs, devour our welfare system, let’s hunt them down like criminals and shoot them if they resist. - Extremists advocate murder of immigrants, politicians By : Susy Buchanan
"All of you who think there's a peaceful solution to these invaders are wrong. We're going to have to start killing these people," neo-Nazi radio host Hal Turner posted to his website the day after 500,000 immigrant rights activists marched through downtown Los Angeles.
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