The Correct Term is Migrant
When describing the 12 million people that have illegally immigrated into the U.S. the best term to use is the word “migrant”. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if people opposed this, this shouldn’t...
View ArticleICE – Remember them? According to their website, they are PROUD
Here is the announcement from ICE:LOS ANGELES - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that a criminal fugitive alien who spent a year seeking to elude federal capture inside a...
View ArticleICE raid in Ohio “nets” 160 – again employer conspires to deliberately hire
Straight from the mouth of ICE, their own story posted yesterday: http://www.ice.gov/p… CINCINNATI – Special agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today executed criminal search...
View ArticlePreying on Migrant Fear: Impersonating an ICE Agent
Prosecutors say the most egregious incident occurred June 29, when Mathison detained four Latino men sitting along Chestnut Street in Chelsea. After forcing them into a nearby building, Mathison...
View ArticleDying of Terror on September 11, 2007
Medeiros died from terror on September 11. He died of a heart attack at only 25 years of age. Medeiros represents the millions suffering from ubiquitous migrant terror in the U.S. Medeiros' aunt had...
View ArticleRipping the Sacred Bonds Between Mother and Child
It was this fear that was the chief subject of a vigil in Chelsea, Massachusetts, organized primarily by Chelsea Collaborative, Roca, and Centro Presente. I was a horrible journalist that day. The...
View ArticleThe Panic: On the Brazilians Who Died in U.S. Government Custody
Even though it has well-documented ties to white supremacy, Numbers USA isn’t a fringe organization. Its been credited by the New York Times for playing a major role in the defeat of comprehensive...
View ArticleDemocrats in Favor of Sanctuary Cities
I’m glad that Joe Biden mentioned the town in this New York Times article. After Riverside, New Jersey, implemented a local anti-migrant ordinance, it wreaked havoc on the town. Migrants left in droves...
View ArticleThe Story of Pedro Zapeta: How the U.S. Government Stole a Happy Home from...
These are just a few of the commentaries on a story that has swept the internet. “Pedro Zapeta” was one of google’s most searched terms over the weekend, and by my last count there have already been...
View ArticleGuilty Corporations Fund Hypocritical Anti-Migrant Politicians
As politicians continue to use migrants for their own political purposes, a pattern is emerging. Migrants are bearing the brunt of their political posturing, while the people that hire and benefit...
View ArticleDeporting Dissent: Tam Tran and the DREAM Act
Duke has already written a better post about Tam Tran then I will ever be able to write, so I’m going to write about this from the unique perspective that I bring. First, ICE is the most frightening...
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‘Los Angeles is Burning’: Lives on the Murder Wind
Originally Posted on Citizen Orange “Los Angeles is Burning” – Bad Religion When the hills of Los Angeles are burning Palm trees are candles in the murder wind So many lives are on the breeze Even the...
View Article“An epic tale of love and devotion”
The first time I learned about Garcia was a through a National Public Radio report on his family. The report inspired me to write a comprehensive post on the New Bedford Raid. I’m going to transcribe...
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Cooking Rubber Chicken Rahm
Originally Posted on The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) recently partnered with Blue America in order to hold Rahm Emanuel accountable for his anti-migrant posturing as the...
View ArticleAnti-Attrition Through Enforcement
I came up with this anti-attrition idea while attending Boston University’s Great Debate, a few weeks ago. The question was “Can Stricter Law Enforcement at the Border and the Workplace Solve the U.S....
View ArticleLou Dobbs Race Baiter
Dobbs’s popularity results from filling the vacuum spineless establishment Democrats are leaving in their wake. In the absence of strong progressive leadership, Lou Dobbs has been able to twist...
View ArticleDon Hutto: “How the ICE Stole Christmas”
Dear Mr. Prime minister haper I don’t like to stay in this jail. I’m only nine years old. I want to go to my school in Canada. I’m sleeping beside the wall. Please Mr. Priminister haper give visa for...
View ArticleAmy Chua: Nativism at Yale Law
Our English language is under assault and our schools are drowning in ethnic violence, rapes, drugs and gang warfare. In California, Texas, Florida and Arizona, our hospitals suffer bankruptcies from...
View ArticleGeorge Washington Was Pro-Migrant
GEORGE W. BUSH: “I’m a uniter, not a divider.”–Interview with David Horowitz for Salon.com, May 6, 1999 GEORGE W. BUSH: “I care what 51 percent of the people think of me”–To Oprah Winfrey, September...
View ArticleMoving Towards a New Migrant Manifesto
The blogosphere can have a role in this change as well. There is a wealth of blogs out there dealing with immigration and Latino issues on a regular basis, and many of them feature not just important...
View ArticleDemocrats Push Deportation-Only SAVE Act
Call your representative TODAY and demand that they reject the SAVE Act! Pressure is mounting in the Democratic-led House of Representatives to act on the SAVE Act (HR 4088), an enforcement and...
View ArticleThe New Migrant Megaphone: A Historic Month for the Sanctuarysphere
“Terrorism, crime, the economy, health care, and education: we are not to blame for all of the world’s problems! Yet, despite being treated as less than human, we still want to help solve them. All...
View ArticleMay Day Live: March For Migrant Rights
I’m going to updating live on the immigrant marches right outside of Boston, today, using my cell phone. I can’t paste the widget here, but you can see the updates on the top of the Citizen Orange...
View ArticleObama and NCLR: F@$! You Brown Boy… F@$! La Raza
I debated whether or not to cover Obama’s speech. A put up a full copy of his remarks here. Eventually I decided that with hundreds of press people here, and more “influential” bloggers than myself...
View ArticleMy Video on the Racism of the San Diego Minutemen
It turns out that after I wrote my post documenting the racism of the San Diego Minutemen, an even more heinous case of racism emerged. It was caught by Naui Huitzilopochtli (YouTube user...
View ArticleLet America Be America Again – Support Herta
I first heard about Herta through the folks at dreamactivist.org, whom I have been working and spending a lot of time with, lately. In typical dreamactivist.org fashion, if you get involved they’ll...
View ArticleWill Sen. Scott Brown Meet With Massachusetts Immigrant Youth Before April 17?
Currently, we are not asking for any policy commitments from Sen. Brown. We are only asking for a simple meeting. We want Sen. Brown to hear the stories of immigrant youth who have been affected by...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters: Mohammad Abdollahi
On May 17, according to the New York Times, I become one of the first undocumented students, along with two others, to “have directly risked deportation in an effort to prompt Congress to take up [the...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters: Yahaira Carrillo
I was born in 1985 to a barely-turned 16 year-old who had been kicked out of her house while she was pregnant for being a disgrace to the family. I lived with my mother in an abandoned house in...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters Recap: Tell Harry Reid You Want The DREAM Act Now
After a great deal of sustained pressure, major reform advocates like the Reform Immigration For America campaign have already agreed to moving the DREAM Act forward, now. Unfortunately, there are...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters: Wendy
As early as elementary school, I worked hard to get good grades, going from ESL in second grade to straight A’s by third grade. I graduated the sixth grade with a great reputation amongst my peers and...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters Recap: The CHC Has To Stand With Migrant Youth, Not Against Us
Before all of our efforts move towards securing mostly Republican votes for the DREAM Act in the Senate, however, there is one last set of important supposed “allies” that have yet to voice their...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters: Tania Unzueta
For years we lived in a small basement, then a small apartment. When we moved here, my dad had been offered a job with the promise of regularizing his status through employer sponsorship, 245-i. Our...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters: Stop The Deportation of Marlen Moreno
I was born in Nacozari, Mexico in 1984. My parents brought me to the United States when I was only 13 years old. We were searching for a better life and we found it in Tucson, Arizona. Despite being...
View ArticleCambridge, MA Supports the DREAM Act – Where Is Scott Brown?
Originally posted on Citizen OrangeThis week, thanks largely to the efforts of Rev. Christopher Hope, the Cambridge City Council unanimously passed a resolution in favor of the DREAM Act. The...
View ArticleDREAM Now Recap: The Ghost of Virgil Goode Possesses the Republican Party
Last week, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and the nativist organization NumbersUSA were behind a political effort to release an inflammatory memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services....
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: David Cho
My parents brought me to this country when I was only nine years old. I went to school not knowing a single word of English, and I often became my classmates’ object of ridicule – many bullies...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Stop Ivan Nikolov’s Deportation
I immigrated to the United States from Russia when I was just 11 years old. My mother married a U.S. citizen who is the only father I know. I do not remember much about the journey to America, nor did...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Selvin Arevalo
Since I came to this country, I have been going to school to learn and enhance my English. Three years ago, I enrolled with Adult Education in Portland, ME, for my high school diploma. Finally, in...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Carlos A Roa, Jr.
There are obstacles in my daily life that make it extraordinarily difficult to pursue a career in architecture. Fortunately, because of my determination to continue my studies after graduating high...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Lizbeth Mateo
I came to this country when I was fourteen-years-old from Oaxaca, Mexico. It was the late nineties and Mexico was, and is still, facing one of the worst socio-economic and political periods in recent...
View ArticleDREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Saad Nabeel
My mother and I were denied entrance into Canada and sent back to the USA as if we were common criminals. I was separated from my mother and sent to a detention facility where I was forced to live with...
View ArticleThe Stars Have Aligned: The Time Is Now for the DREAM Act
For those that don’t know, the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act would give the right to exist to almost a million migrant youth who are American in every sense except for...
View ArticleWe Will Be Watching: Victory for the DREAM Act
If you haven’t heard about the DREAM Act yet I wouldn’t be surprised. The media has largely been focused on the train wreck that is Christine O’Donnell’s campaign. But the mainstream media is missing...
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