Immigration

Arts Organizing Helped Defeat Alabama Anti-Immigration Law

February 6, 2014 Levana Saxon, www.wagingnonviolence.org Organize! Arts, Immigration, Racism

The community and the community organizing had a big role. One of the main arguments in court was that there is not proof of racial profiling, so community members organized people to call SPLC’s hotline with their stories and build a case against the state. It was really a lot of the community pushing to get SPLC to get cases to then present to a court. What happened right now was a victory through the judicial process. But the SPLC has always looked to the community, and the community has always seeded cases to them. Art making became really central to how I approached community building. In Tuscaloosa, we started banner making as a form of identification and education. People who worked at thrift stores would bring sheets. I’d bring cardboard from dumpsters. Kids would paint while the parents would do the letters. We used a lot of handprints — butterfly and flower handprints — so that the whole families could get involved. We would make them at my house or at the Catholic church. Then we’d drive around with signs on our cars to announce that there would be a rally in Montgomery. The bus would come, and we’d all pile in.

Austin Shuts Down Jail To Halt Deportations

February 3, 2014 Staff, www.notonemoredeportation.com Resist! Immigrant Rights, Immigration

According to data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the vast majority of immigrants deported from Travis County were not convicted of serious crimes, many having committed not criminal offense or minor offenses such as driving without a license or expired registration stickers. “The criminalization of our immigrant community must stop. When our local police force focuses on detaining and deporting non-criminal hardworking members of our community, they are not only separating families, they are also diverting time and financial resources from addressing real dangerous crime,” says Alejandro Caceres, Executive Director of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition. “The criminalization of our immigrant community must stop.

Immigrant Families Dial Up Pressure On Obama

January 30, 2014 Christine Neumann-Ortiz, www.vdlf.org Resist! Immigration

In his speech the president said, “Let’s make this a year of action.” Our movement lives by those words, and in 2014 we will honor them through increasing pressure on both the Obama administration and a Congress which has failed every opportunity to act, despite overwhelming consensus on the urgent need for a new legal working system that provides equality and dignity through citizenship and protections for all workers. The President’s stated desire for reform continues to contradict his own capacity to make relief a reality. It is within his power to provide relief by expanding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and other options to help the 11 million, and he can stop the deportation machine by ending ICE policies that lead to criminalizing people who would be the very beneficiaries of the reform he says he wants Congress to pass.

Sawant Responds To The State Of The Union Address

January 29, 2014 Kshama Sawant, www.youtube.com Educate! Climate Change, Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Immigration, Inequality, Occupy, Pipelines, Poverty, Video, Worker Rights and Jobs

Obama talked about the deepening inequality. But that is a testament of his own presidency. A presidency that has betrayed the hopes of tens of millions of people who voted for him out of a genuine desire for fundamental change away from corporate politics and war mongering. Poverty is at record-high numbers - 95% of the gains in productivity during the so-called recovery have gone to the top 1%. The president’s focus on income inequality was an admission of the failure of his policies. An admission forced by rallies, demonstrations, and strikes by fast food and low wage workers demanding a minimum wage of $15. It has been forced by the outrage over the widening gulf between the super-rich and those of us working to create this wealth in society. While the criminals on Wall Street are bailed out, courageous whistleblowers like Edward Snowden are hunted down and the unconstitutional acts he exposed are allowed to continue.

How Dede Adnahom Didn’t Get Deported

January 6, 2014 Victoria Law, www.truthout.org Organize! Immigration

What set Dede’s case apart from her counterparts who have been deported? One factor that could have played a part was activism: Dede founded Who You Callin' Illegal, a support group that used her story as a catalyst to widen discussions around immigration to include its intersections with incarceration and mass deportation. Who You Callin' Illegal stemmed from her friends' desire to support her. "People were helping out continually," Dede recalled. "When I had to go to court, they would watch my kids. They also helped with rides. They did petitions; they made T-shirts with my face on it. ... " Other friends were less sure how they could help. Dede recalled numerous times when she was told, "We'd support you, but we don't know how. We don't know where to begin." Seizing on the opportunity to use her personal experience to galvanize broader understanding and action, Dede started Who You Callin' Illegal.

German Activists Protest Rota Flore Eviction

December 22, 2013 Resist! Germany, Immigration, Police abuse

Several hundred activists were injured, 120 detained and 16 arrested in Hamburg when armed riot cops attacked 8,000 demonstrators, who, in solidarity with refugees, gathered to defend the Rota Flore, which is under threat of being evicted, after last week the “Esso” social houses were already evicted. While surveilling demonstrators from the helicopter, between 2,000-3,000 cops, armed with water cannons, teargas, and guns, surrounded the demonstrators and attacked them, unprovoked. Footage clearly proves this as cops are suddenly seen rushing towards the demonstrators and attacking them. Activists say the cops claimed their attack was justified because the “demonstration started too early.” There was a massive use of teargas, cops seemed to mimic the tactics used during the Gezi repression by the Turkish police, and continuously attacked demonstrators with water canons.

#Not1More: New Deportation Statistics Reported for 2013

December 21, 2013 Staff, www.notonemoredeportation.com Educate! Government, Immigrant Rights, Immigration

It’s clear that the President’s dual position of “deporter-in-chief”and champion-of-reform is untenable and mutually exclusive. It’s universally accepted--and confirmed by today’s report--that the president has discretion when it comes to immigration enforcement. The fact that he hasn’t fully exercised this discretion reflects the limitations of his political calculus not his legal authority. The White House has sought to blame and appease nativists at the same time: blame them for blocking reform while appeasing them by expanding the criminalization of immigrants and a culture of suspicion. The politics are changing though, as it is unpopular to be responsible for separating families. However, the policies just aren’t changing fast enough. To accelerate the process, the President needs to reverse the deportation apparatus he’s built in the past five years and expand relief so that people don’t have to worry about being one of the statistics reported today.

International Migrants Day: 7 Facts And Statistics About Migrants

December 18, 2013 Oscar Lopez, www.latintimes.com Educate! Human Rights, Immigration

International Migrants Day 2013 is a day to recognize and celebrate the millions of people around the world who have left their homeland in search of a better future or a new opportunity. First proclaimed by the United Nations in 2000, December 18th invites countries to celebrate International Migrants Day "through the dissemination of information ...and through the sharing of experiences and the design of actions to ensure their protection." In this spirit, based on the latest Pew Research study, Latin Times has compiled 7 Facts And Statistics About Migrants In 2013.

Protesters in DC, LA Call On ‘Deporter-in-Chief’ To Stop

December 16, 2013 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Immigration

Bi-coastal demonstrations erupted Monday morning as over one hundred demonstrators in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles shut down the regional offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with a message for the "deporter-in-chief," President Barack Obama: Not one more deportation. Protesters with the group #Not1More were arrested outside the ICE office in Fairfax, Virginia for blocking a deportation van. In Los Angeles, in front of over one hundred other demonstrators who rallied outside the city's ICE headquarters, six immigrant youth and allies chained themselves to two 8-foot ladders with U-locks around their necks.

Escape From LA Sweatshop: How Modern-Day Slaves Become Lobbyists

December 9, 2013 Christa Hillstrom, www.yesmagazine.org Educate! Human Rights, Immigration, Worker Rights and Jobs

I thought slavery was only in the books,” she says. “I was surprised to find myself living in it.” According to the International Labor Organization, nearly 21 million people are victims of forced labor—often called modern-day slavery—across the world. Many of them are exploited in agriculture, construction, domestic servitude, and manufacturing. An estimated 15,000-17,500 people are trafficked into the United States alone every year. Molina’s experience is typical. What’s remarkable is what she did with it. Just 40 days into her internment, Molina broke free. She got permission to go to church alone and figured out how to contact a concerned fellow worker who had noticed Molina’s abuse in the shop. With her help Molina connected with the nonprofit Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST).

Police Threaten Children Singing Outside House Republican Leaders’ Offices With Arrest

December 6, 2013 Ester Yu-Hsu Lee, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Immigration

When activists filed into Cantor’s office, a Congressional aide called on police officers to remove more than a dozen youths who sang as a way to bring about immigration reform. In the video as children sang, “We want reform, we want it now,” an officer showed up to tell them to stop singing or to risk arrest if they did not leave the office. OFFICER 1: Is anyone planning on getting arrested today or is this all peaceful demonstration? We have to ask you to leave … I appreciate what you’re doing. The congressman can’t meet you right now, so please set it up through email. Please don’t sing again. We have to ask you to leave. Do you guys want to stay in and be subject to arrest or go out? … Do you want to leave now or be subject to arrest if you stay in this room? … Everyone that stays in this room may be arrested. A child activist broke down crying as the activists filed out of the room.

Climate Justice Activist Joins Immigration Fast4Families

November 23, 2013 Tom Weis, www.rideforrenewables.com Resist! Climate Change, Immigration

I am currently on Day 8 of a water-only fast on the Nation Mall in support of Fast4Families, dedicated to the passage of comprehensive immigration reform in Congress. I was invited to join by my friends at the Franciscan Action Network, staunch allies in our struggle to stop Keystone XL IN ITS ENTIRETY. Yesterday, I also fasted in climate solidarity with the suffering people of the Phillipines, victims of the strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in recorded human history. As someone who believes all social justice issues are interrelated, and that we are all members of the same human family, I felt moved to take a stand for 11 million of our immigrant brothers and sisters, many of whose families are being painfully ripped apart by an inhumane immigration system that flies in the face of our nation's immigrant history and the bedrock American value of justice for all. This story in today's New York Times explains why the majority of Americans support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. One of the traditions in our 24/7 fast tent community is for fasters to share the stories of what drew us here with those who visit us in the tent. My story obviously begins with biking 485 miles from Cleveland to Washington, DC to call on President Obama to shut down Keystone XL in TX & OK

Labor Fight Back: Time For Labor To Break From The Democrats

November 19, 2013 Staff, www.laborfightback.org Create! Education, Health Care, Immigration, Racism, Social Security, Worker Rights and Jobs

Not only is this a time to make fundamental changes -- such changes are long overdue! We're talking about labor and its allies having a meaningful voice in the political arena. And we're talking about labor mobilizing in the streets on a scale we haven't seen in decades. We believe that the AFL-CIO took positive action at its Los Angeles convention in calling for greater cohesion with our community partners. That is certainly needed. However, any proposed change in strategy that does not call for labor and its supporters to have real political clout misses the mark. And the same is true if there is not a call for periodic massive demonstrations, especially in the nation's capital. Consider our most pressing issues and how poorly labor has fared as a very junior part of the Democratic Party, a part relegated to the background. Is the Democratic Party really a party for labor and the working class? Has labor profited from its subordination to that party? Since the Democratic Party gets 70% of its funding from the big corporations, would it not be more accurate to describe it as a corporate party? And isn't it high time to put an end to a policy of supporting candidates who betray their promises to labor after an election has been held, either by agreeing to watered down and unacceptable compromises or by abandoning our issues altogether, which is what has happened to the Employee Free Choice Act?

BREAKING: Chicagoans Stop Deportation Bus

November 19, 2013 Staff, www.notonemoredeportation.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Immigration

Twelve Chicagoans have attached themselves to a deportation bus full of immigrants headed to the airport to be separated from their families. The immigrants on the bus include Octavio Nava and Brigido Acosta Luis, who have been the focus of national campaigns, and who are considered “priority for deportation” due to their past immigration histories. Their families, along with action participants, are urging President Obama to use his administrative powers to expand prosecutorial discretion for people who have crossed the border back to reunite with their families. “All my son wanted was to be next to us. They didn’t even let me give them a hug goodbye. It’s not fair that President Obama has the power to stop deportations and keep this family together,” said Maria Luisa Sanchez, mother of Octavio Nava Cabrera after seeing her son before he was put on the deportation bus headed to O’Hare airport. ”We have fought so hard. I don’t think any family should go through this,” she concluded.

House Inaction Escalates Demands For Immigration Reform

November 17, 2013 Amanda Peterson Beadle, www.immigrationimpact.com Resist! Immigration, Racism

Blocks from the U.S. Capitol, five religious and labor leaders launched the “Fast for Families” on Tuesday, committing to fast from food and drink until Congress passes immigration reform. Eliseo Medina from the Service Employees International Union, who is fasting, said he knows it will be difficult, but added that “there is a deeper hunger within me, a hunger for an end to a system that creates such misery among those who come here to escape poverty and violence in search of the American dream.” A table inside the tent where they are staying during the fast has reminders of those who died trying to cross into the U.S. or who have been deported and separated from their families. Along with the long-term fasters, people are joining as “solidarity fasters,” fasting for a shorter period of time both in D.C. and across the country. Officials and members of Congress—including Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Salt Lake City Bishop John Wester—have gone to the tent to hear from the fasters about their mission.

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