IN THIS WEEK’S NEWS WITH NEZUA we cover Baby Carillo (snatched, returned, and snatched again); A wrong way onto the Highway Ramp of Deportation; Museum forays into the Immigration dialogue, and a moment of celebration at Joe Arpaio’s expense. Adelante!
WELCOME TO ANOTHER SORDID CHAPTER in the Sherrif Joe Arpaio Freak Show. I know my regulars are all too aware of this sad, aging, dinocreptastic remnant of an era screeching into our past and not gracefully and with guns—but if you are not, here is a treat for you, a YouTube vid dealing with his latest daring act of wackery.
THIS WEEK, two comprehensive reports on the health of immigrant detainees were released by Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center. let there be no doubt that in the custody of ICE, immigrants are, literally, “dying for decent care.”
THOUGH WORKING TO CLOSE Guantánamo, peppering his speech with talk of law and order, and restoring US image to the world abroad, Obama still risks muddying up his accomplishments with a blatant hypocrisy: we cannot lead the way on liberty or justice when investing in detention systems from Arizona to Iraq.
SHOULD “America’s Toughest Sheriff” get a free pass on his controversial tactics? Should he round up immigrants at traffic stops and force them to sleep in separate “Tent Cities” in the desert? Feed them food dyed green? Force them to wear pink underwear? Cage them in electric fencing?
UNLEASHED ON THE IMMIGRANT COMUNIDAD by section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (which hands over federal immigration-related duties to local lawmen) Sheriff Joe Arpaio has incensed many good Americans and repulsed the rest with his strange, medieval behaviors. Today, the US House Judiciary Committee signals the jig is up.
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.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
