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Government Accountability Office: ICE are Agents of Chaos and Confusion

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

GAO REPORT ON ICE: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has not clearly articulated the objectives of the 287(g) program or the guidelines that participating police departments must follow, thereby creating confusion and mismanagement. Furthermore, ICE has not demonstrated effective oversight of the 67 partnership agreements and 950 officers who have been trained, potentially resulting in “misuse of authority.”

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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: Feeding Morsels of Migrants to the Economic Maw

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

THE NATION’S EYES are fixed upon a trembling economy. It affects our ability to survive, to thrive, and even think rationally. This crisis impacts the lives of immigrants on multiple levels, be it through provisions to the economic stimulus bill, individual lawmen exceeding the bounds of their office, or a scrambling Pentagon viewing immigrants as easy fodder for the war machine.

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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 Immigration Wire [VIDEO]: A Cry for Change from Coast to Coast

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

HERE IS THIS WEEK’S VIDEO complement to the TMC blog I wrote Thursday. Articles covered include the many actions being taken across the nation as people demand movement on this issue. Also, I speak on why we need immigration reform and now. There will be a YouTube version, but from now on there will be a window of time after I post videos on the XOLAGRAFIK site.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: A Cry for Change from Coast to Coast

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

ALL OVER THE NATION, communities are clamoring to be heard. In this worsening economic landscape, migrant communities are being terrorized by violent raids, families are destabilized, wage earners are jailed or detained, and xenophobic pundits continue to fuel a rising wave of hate crimes against Latinos. The stakes could not be any higher.

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Some Bruises Fade (Still Flowers Bloom)

Monday, January 26th, 2009

WE ALL LOOK TO THE NEW SEASON of politics with hope and with relief and many of us, joy. But as much as we want to simply admire the new bloom and leaf and ray of sun, let us remember (and Never Forget) that you do not plant a garden in active rot if you want a healthy harvest.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Trapped Behind a Mesh of Broken Law

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

IT IS AS IF WE GET COMFORTABLE and forget our own histories. The tales of struggle and dreaming and working and persecution—is this not America? Are these not our stories? Would we throw our own past into prison?

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Will Humanity Return to US in 2009?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

THE NEW YEAR RUSHES UPON US with momentum born of crisis and necessity. In every direction one looks, change is needed—and not cosmetic alteration, but deep, structural repair. The issue of immigration is no exception.

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NY/NJ Spanish Language ICE Raid Rapid Response HOTLINE

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

SI LOS AGENTES DE INMIGACION vienen a tu puerta o tu ves a ellos en tu vecindario? llama de inmediato a la linea caliente de Respuesta Rápida gratis desde cualquier teléfono 1-800-308-0878 hay un representante que habla español disponible las 24 horas para decirte cuales son tus derechos.

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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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BREAKING: I.C.E. Served Deportation Papers by F.I.R.E!

Friday, December 5th, 2008

FLAGSTAFF, AZ: At approximately 10AM on Thursday December 4th, Flagstaff Immigrant Rights Enforcement (FIRE) confronted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a daring raid, serving a notice of deportation to ICE representatives at an ICE Management meeting.

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Cynthia McKinney Answers The Sanctuary Survey

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

THE SANCTUARY EDITORS: Showing the vitality and importance of voices from outside the mainstream two-party political paradigm, Congresswoman McKinney puts forth not only a strong understanding of the complexities of the Immigration Issue, but also a vision of real-world solutions with a refreshing willingness to confront the broader social and economic realities which undergird international migration.

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Pelosi Suggests Permanent U.S. Slave Class

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

AS SADDENED AND CYNICAL as I have become about humankind in my life, I still nurture a belief in the human heart and the sense of Right. I still feel that in most cases of wrong being done, all it takes is thinking, feeling people getting the real facts of a situation. And the facts of this situation are shocking and revolting to a thinking mind and feeling heart.

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FDA Issues Deadly Corrido Alert

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

However you look at it, it’s becoming clear that growing our own food will soon be a necessary component of health and safety. As the food economy is repeatedly hatcheted by a fumbling and stumbling FDA; as plants, slaughterhouses, and restaurants are hit hard due to ICE raids, food preparation and cleanliness is suffering, supply is suffering and at times drying up, and most importantly, our food is simply longer viable in many important ways.