Browsing all posts tagged with Mexican-American Political Association.

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CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION FROM IMMIGRANT WORKERS

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

MAPA: “WE ARE TAKING THE BRUNT of the attacks and suffering the immediate consequences of this misguided policy, therefore, our call is urgent to take to the streets on September 5th, the Labor Day weekend, and October 12th, not to ask but demand that President Obama stop the attacks on immigrants and that he fulfill his promise of immigration reform, that which we heard during the presidential campaign, but has recently been forgotten.”

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Obama’s Hard Line on Immigration

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

In the modern world, borders do not separate families, nor commerce, nor soldiers, nor bank accounts and their owners. And NAFTA has allowed Mexico’s corn crop to be so devalued that Mexico—the land where the plant was born roughly 5,000 years ago—now imports corn, forcing streams of campesinos to migrate north…where we lock them up.