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  • RIGHTS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN THE US
    14 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Marching in the streets, making demands, the only rights I see that ILLEGAL immigrants might have in the U.S. are these:
    You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Do you understand?
    Anything you do say may be used against you in a court of law. Do you understand?
    You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future. Do you understand?
    If you cannot afford an attorney, (…)

  • Anti-immigrant hysteria versus common sense
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BC Editor Bruce Dixon
    Last weekend in Los Angeles somewhere between half a million and two million legal and illegal immigrants and their supporters hit the streets protesting the same federal legislation that brought at least three hundred thousand into the streets of Chicago two weeks earlier, and smaller crowds in dozens of other cities. As this article is written, the U.S. Senate has just stricken the most onerous provisions of pending immigration bills which make an instant felon (…)

  • Reigniting a call to action
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Juan Gonzalez
    When a movie called "Walkout" premiered on HBO two weeks ago, no one had any idea it would inspire hundreds of thousands of Hispanics across the country to march in the streets and end up altering a major debate in Congress over immigration reform.
    But that’s precisely what happened with a new movie by Edward James Olmos and Moctesuma Esparza, two of Hollywood’s biggest Latino filmmakers.
    Directed by Olmos and produced by Esparza, the film recreates a spontaneous (…)

  • In the Spirit of Chavez Recent Rallies Share Tactics, Passion of the 1960s (Los Angeles Daily News)
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, March 31, 2006 by the
    by Rachel Uranga
    Marches, walkouts and calls for a boycott.
    The immigrants-rights protests of the past week have sparked Latinos’ passion like nothing since the farm workers marches and grape boycotts led by Cesar Chavez in the 1960s and ’70s - drawing political parallels and generational ties.
    Considered by many to be the first to attract Latinos to a massive U.S. social-justice movement, the legacy and tactics of Chavez - whose birthday is (…)

  • Malta - The Camp
    30 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Laura Eduati, 27 March, 2006
    Source: http://claudiofava.netfirms.com/artman/publish/article_964.shtml Translated from Italian by Mary Rizzo, member of tlaxcala , the network of translators for linguistic diversity. This translation is on copyleft. The detention centre Safi Barracks of Malta is a gigantic cage where the migrants live like beasts. When the Maltese army opens the locks, dozens of Africans run towards them shouting “Freedom! Liberté!” They come near them with (…)

  • Transit workers are fighting for us all
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Union struggle is about the top issues for most Americans: health insurance and a secure future
    BY GENE CARROLL
    Gene Carroll is the director of the Union Leadership Program at Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, in New York City.
    Back in December, when those 34,000 pesky bus and subway workers who belong to Transport Workers Union Local 100 in New York City walked off the job, the news media and local government traffic managers from Riverhead (…)

  • WORKING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY
    28 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WORK IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY
    By Peter Fredson
    March 28, 2006
    It is not my intention to weigh in on the current immigration debate in the U.S. other than to say that George Bush has been careless, negligent and inept at dealing with securing our borders. As I looked at the protest demonstrations on TV, in Los Angeles, most of the several thousand protestors looked like they recently came from some Mexican countryside towns.
    That jogged my memory. After WWII I had 4 years of G.I. Bill (…)

  • Reparations Are Due
    28 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Any amnesty for ILLEGAL immigrants or guest worker’s program in the United States should be tied to several $100 billion dollars in Reparations for African Americans.
    Any African American born prior to the 1965 Civil Right Act would be entitled to a share.
    In the mean time, the laws already on the books concerning immigration should be fully enforced.
    Quite frankly, I don’t see the difference between illegal aliens and terrorist.
    But, then again on the Reparations issue, I believe (…)

  • US Border Security/Immigration
    27 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    United States Government Accountability Office GAO Report to Congressional Requesters
    March 2006
    IMMIGRATION BENEFITS Additional Controls and a Sanctions Strategy Could Enhance DHS’s Ability to Control Benefit Fraud GAO-06-259
    [Snip] What GAO Found Although the full extent of benefit fraud is unknown, available evidence suggests that it is a serious problem. Several high-profile immigration benefit fraud cases shed light on aspects of its nature-particularly that it is accomplished by (…)

  • Over 1 Million Protest in Los Angeles for Immigrant Rights!
    27 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The largest demonstration in the history of California
    Today in downtown Los Angeles, over 1 million people demonstrated in support of immigrant rights. This was the largest demonstration in the history of California. March organizers announced from the stage that the crowd was over 1 million.
    Univision and other Spanish-language television reported that up to 2 million people marched. The Los Angeles Times, reflecting police estimates, gave the march 500,000 - police estimates have been (…)