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Weekly Diaspora: Quiet Raids, Slippery ICE and Grinches

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

A DEPRESSED ECONOMY and perceived cultural shifts in the U.S. demographic are bringing out the very best and worst of our society.

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Weekly Diaspora: Autumn Holiday Edition!

Friday, November 27th, 2009

THE WEEKLY DIASPORA wishes you and yours a satisfying holiday season, whether you are fasting or feasting. May you be safe and with loved ones.

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Weekly Diaspora: Fort Hood Shootings Unleash Poisonous Punditry

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

WHEN TERROR STRIKES the hearts of Right Wing punditry, the result too often is a demonization of communities of color. Be they Mexican or Arab or Muslim or Chinese or Japanese, it’s an age-old reflex. It’s time to think smarter, broader, and find the root causes of the nation’s troubles.

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Weekly Diaspora: Deporting Dobbs

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

AFTER 30 YEARS, commentator Lou Dobbs—infamous for his tirades against undocumented immigrants—has left CNN.

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Weekly Diaspora: Legislating Hate

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Misguided and troublesome attempts to legislate hate are rippling out and hurting other communities. Perhaps some have forgotten that United We Stand, and…

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The Weekly Diaspora: We Can Prosper Together

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

THE US HAS A LONG WAY TO GO before it acts on the premise that—as lofty as it might sound—we really are one large human family. The sooner our laws and health care and police activity reflect the importance of all members of this large human family, the healthier this nation will be.

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The Long War: Faces and Phases of Racism and Justice

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

THIS IS AND HAS BEEN a long, long war. This foul spirit that rises and repeats and seeks to make mi gente retreat has been tearing at the land and the skin of the face and the hands of my people for hundreds of years.

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Weekly Diaspora: Moving Immigration Reform Forward

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

UNDOUBTEDLY, those new to our voting rolls and Census counts will become an accepted part of our country before long. Efforts to deny health, opportunity and equality to humans as deserving of these things as you and I, will seem gross and repugnant on that day, though to many of us they do right now.

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The Diaspora: A Return to Reason

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

AFTER THE SHADOWY BUSH YEARS, the emergence of reasonable policy can be a little surprising. Immigration law has suffered from a lack of planning and is often influenced by fear rooted in the Sept. 11 attacks. But the national dialogue on immigration has begun to grow healthier.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Racism and Reform

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

IT IS A SAD IRONY that a President who wants to unite opposing factions presides over an increasingly entrenched and partisan political landscape. There seems to be no satisfactory compromise for both the health care and immigration reform debates. The situation is tragic because the people’s needs are made secondary to an unending war between two political entities.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: These Are American Stories

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

AS THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE GROWS increasingly tense and intertwined with economic worries, cultural anxiety, and deep-seated racism and xenophobia, it is important to be clear about what’s at stake. This debate is about our humanity. This “issue,” simply put, is about choosing to take advantage of the vulnerable, or conversely, our refusing to exploit the weak.

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MCSO Police: “I Am Up Here!!! You Are Down There!!!”

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

JOE ARPAIO’S RENEGADE LAW OUTFIT thinks itself on a mission to rid the state of Latinos. Every day the case grows stronger that law means nothing to these cops and that the community is under siege. Here are a couple videos that demonstrate them violating a friend’s civil rights.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Race to the Bottom

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

STALLED OR PROMISED, the immigration debate is nonetheless rushing forward on its own timetable. Lacking a structured frame to guide it, an entropic momentum builds. Or as Rev. Luis Cortés, Jr., of Esperanza USA said during a call with media members yesterday, Democrats and Republicans are “running toward the harshest positions to show they can be the hardest on those who are the weakest.”

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Piecemeal Reform Fragments A Nation

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

ON ALL FRONTS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION VEERS away from making any meaningful or cohesive change for the undocumented community. Just last night in his speech for health care reform he made sure the people of the US know that the health of millions of people in our country is not worth consideration. And in many other ways, the US Government sends the message that this is one group the USA can safely think of as the unwelcome and unworthy Other.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: DIY Immigration Reform

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

WHAT DO WE DO when those who represent our causes or are elected to take action on our issues abdicate their duty? What do Latino/as do now, as immigration reform is stalled except for increasing punitive measure that serve no purpose but to further and deepen the Enforcement Agenda? We take it into our own hands.