August 18, 2008
Last time we checked, shooting into another country's territory was against international law. But the United States Border Patrol isn't one to get all bogged down international law, especially in the face of rocks. The incident began unfolding about 10 p.m. Tuesday, when an officer with the federa...
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Following Barack Obama’s conciliatory “race” speech in March this year, mainstream critics fell over themselves to congratulate him. For some it meant turning the attention on themselves. Such was Roger Cohen, a columnist for the International Herald Tribune, who wrote a rambling piece (also p...
go to article »August 15, 2008
From the newsobserver we get the story of Marxavi Angel Martinez, a North Carolinian woman who is now facing imprisonment and deportation because of her legal status. Martinez was born in Mexico, but brought to the U.S. at the age of three and has lived here ever since. Unfortunately, Martinez h...
go to article »August 7, 2008
Earlier this week, we told you how Barack Obama responded to a lengthy, detailed questionnaire on Latino issues and immigration while John McCain, despite saying he's an amigo to Latinos, couldn't be bothered. The questionnaire, put together and out out by a coalition of activist bloggers, The San...
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Undocumented immigrants have good reason to feat seeking federal assistance, with raids popping up all over the country, even those left in desperate situations in the aftermath of Hurricane Dolly feel safer keeping quiet. Since 2003, Federal Emergency Management Agency joined the U.S. Department ...
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Marching Toward Hell? August 7th, 2008 — Amir I’m reading Michael Scheuer’s Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq at the moment; an interesting book by the author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radica...
go to article »August 6, 2008
From the same peeps that brought us ICED, we have a video showing us how deportations can hurt, not help. ...
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Like a page ripped from The Onion: ICE's new deport-yourself plan isn't such a hit among undocumented immigrants. Surprisingly, people who have risked their lives and left their families behind to have a better life on U.S. soil are reluctant to leave. How about that?That invitation drew hardly any ...
go to article »August 5, 2008
To me this is the stupidest idea ever and the worst attempt at trying to play nice and act as if they are compassionate. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aka ICE's Director announced on Sunday Operation Scheduled Departure. The announcement of the program by Julie Myers, on Univision's popular...
go to article »July 31, 2008
This morning I read that there was going to be a protest happening at San Francisco's City Hall. The issue : the city's supporting the human rights of immigrants, with or without documents. Not surprisingly, the Minutemen called the event against what they call "sanctuary city status". Too bad the p...
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