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...
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