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The National Sport of Criminalizing Dissent

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

IN WHICH NEZUA IS TURNED AWAY from the Canadian border after a long anticipatory bus ride to visit a friend in Vancouver.

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News With Nezua | The Politics of Untruth

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

OBAMA AND THE TIGHTROPE. Zeituni in the cold. Hypocrisy in the land of anthems. The power of youth…ignored. A shout out to Cuéntame, the soothing nature of certain samenesses, and the creeping chill of ICE.

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News With Nezua | The Thirty-Eight Words

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, President Obama speaks but “Thirty Eight Words” on Immigration Reform and judging from more than one source in the blogosphere, they weren’t extremely inspiring. Others were happy to hear immigration reform mentioned at all in the SOTU. But combined with the inaction so far on immigration reform, many activists and organizations are feeling daunted.

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News With Nezua | 287(g): Motivations, Impact and History

Monday, September 7th, 2009

WHAT IS 287(g)? Unless you are familiar with immigration legislation or follow the dialogue, you may not be entirely sure. I wanted to comment on the issue, as well as provide a basic introduction and so for this week’s News With Nezua, I tackled the 287(g) provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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Department of Homeland Insincerity and The Myth of the “Left”

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

INADVERTENTLY OR PURPOSEFULLY, intention matters not: On the matter of immigration in this land of immigrants, the “Left” and the “Right” perversely both adopt (to differing degrees) a conservative scarcity-model frame punctuated with the barbs of xenophobia and/or racism.

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Janet Napolitano Likes to Play Pretend

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

LIKE A FAVORITE CHESS GAME, the White House plays with its constituency, with it’s Latin@ constituency, with its pro-migrant constituency. Their actions show not a preference for humanitarian or People-centric legislation, but one for prison profits.

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ICE Engaging in ‘Widespread Constitutional Violations’

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE UNDOCUMENTED…. but anyone who studies history knows what comes next. If you and I allow Them to be abused, we lose. I write of the ballooning Constitution-ignoring para-police agency named ICE.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Building up to Change

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

AS WE MOVE CLOSER AND CLOSER to enacting immigration reform, the situation on the ground is evolving as well. Nothing is static for an issue that touches so many people across so many communities. This week’s wire follows up on trends observed last week: holding mainstream media accountable, enforcement tactics, and immigration’s positive effect on the economy.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Obama Can’t Play Centrist on Immigration Crisis

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION seems quite capable of centrist positioning on many issues, including immigration reform. While some argue centrist position allows Obama to effectively reach consensus, immigration reform is an issue that he cannot play sides with.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Home of the Brave and the Caged

Friday, February 6th, 2009

NO MATTER WHAT your position on immigration law happens to be; no matter how many generations your family has been rooted in this soil, these kinds of abuses are unacceptable. Treating our fellow humans in these ways simply is not, as they say, American.

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Weekly Imm. Wire [VIDEO]: Marching Toward Justice!

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

A VLOG featuring various headlines on current Immigration News. Border Guards sentence commuted, violence in Mexico now even disturbing economic bloggers, Immigrants and allies march on ICE headquarters—with original footage of the march itself.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Marching Toward Justice!

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

I’VE BEEN FOLLOWING NEWS FROM MEXICO for a few years now, and as I’m sure you know, most US media ignores Mexico, and to our detriment. This is baffling to me because our cultures, our land, our labor, and our peoples are so intertwined as to be two parts of one whole. It is easy to forget this in the midst of much rigid talk of maps, borders, and walls. But reality is knocking at our door.

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The Department of Homeland Hypocrisy [A Tale of Lies & Loss]

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

IS THE USA a nation of cheating the system any way you can, getting paid to lie and be a hypocrite while taking advantage of those in need? Or is this a nation where a day’s work is worth a day’s pay, and a dream strapped with motivation is worth honest regard and reward?

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C.O.P.S.— the Catch An Alien version

Friday, December 5th, 2008

IT IS OBVIOUS that an arm of the State or behavior of the State that the citizenry would normally recoil from—something like anti-constitutional raids, profit-driven prisons, cruel conditions of mass-detainment, or simply denial of rights sown by a machine made of corrupted legal processes—will first be enacted upon the Other. What’s next? Reality TV, of course!

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Nezua Joins The Media Consortium

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

ANNOUNCING one more way and place in which I will be engaging the everthreshing tentacles of the Internets in order to help get a grip on some humane talk on immigration and migrants and families and communities of migrants and the nation we make up. A brief history of UMX, and a new phase of the online efforts.