Immigration

Dozens Arrested During DC Immigration Protest

August 7, 2013 Brad Wong, www.equalvoiceforfamilies.org Resist! Immigration

Calls to keep families together and for progress on immigration reform burst into public Thursday near the U.S. House of Representatives, as dozens of community leaders and activists brought signs, songs and chants to an act of civil disobedience in support of citizenship. More than 40 community leaders from faith, labor and immigration groups were arrested during the rally in which participants blocked traffic at the intersection of First Street and Independence Avenue Southeast, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles and other organizations said.

From Tallahassee to Mexico City, Youth Uprising Continues

August 3, 2013 James Cersonsky, www.thenation.com Educate! Education, Immigration

How would you feel if you were forced to leave your home? Your family? Everything you’ve ever known? For undocumented youth, this is exactly what’s demanded of them. Either through deportation or lack of access to jobs and education, many are forced to leave for countries that are foreign to them. On July 18, three undocumented youth from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance left the US, where they have grown up for the majority of their lives, and went to Mexico. On July 22, they presented themselves to US Customs and Border Patrol agents in Nogales, Arizona, with six other youth who had been deported, and were arrested and detained at Eloy Detention Center.

Chicago Hunger Strike For Health Care

August 3, 2013 Staff, www.moratoriumondeportations.org Resist! Health Care, Human Rights, Immigration

On June 29, a group of 14 people began a hunger strike at Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, 3442 W 26th St Chicago. The strikers are protesting discriminatory health care practices that deny undocumented people in need of transplants a place on the transplant waiting list. Hospitals routinely deny life-saving patient care based on immigration status and inability to pay: in a profit-driven medical system, only certain lives are deemed to be worth saving. Hunger strikers include patients and loved ones who demand that hospitals place people on transplant lists based on need and not on immigration or insurance status. The Hunger strikers are calling for solidarity to help escalate the campaign and increase the pressure on hospitals and legislators.

Migrant Workers: America’s Harvest of Shame

August 3, 2013 Ralph Nader, www.nader.org/‎ Educate! Human Rights, Immigration, Worker Rights and Jobs

It probably won’t surprise you that the grapes, peaches, watermelons, strawberries, apricots and lettuce that you’re eating this week are brought to you from the fields by the descendants of the early migrant workers. Their plight is not that much better, except for the very few working under a real union contract. Start with the exclusion of farmworkers from the Fair Labor Standards Act. Then go to the EPA’s Worker Protection Standard (WPS), which is aimed at protecting farmworkers and their families from pesticides but is outdated, weak and poorly enforced. Continue on to the unyielding local power of growers and their campaign-cash indentured local, state and Congressional lawmakers.

One Of Most Powerful Protests In History Of Immigration Reform

July 24, 2013 Johnathen Duran, www.policymic.com Resist! Education, Immigration

Lizbeth left the relative safety of the United States with two other activists, Lulu Martinez and Marco Saavedra, to participate in the most recent of a series of escalating protests, this one from the Mexico side of the border and in collaboration with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA). They joined others who had been forced to leave due to their status, including 22-year-old Adriana Diaz, who fled Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror; Maria Peniche, from Massachusetts; Luis Gustavo Leon, 20, who said he has been deported from the United States four times, and is trying to get back to his family in North Carolina; Claudia, who's mom is a citizen and who holds a teaching credential from Cambridge University; and Ceferino Santiago, who came to the United States at age 13 and became a muralist and an athlete.

“Education, Not Deportation!”: Undocumented Students Protest Napolitano

July 23, 2013 Asha DuMonthier, www.alternet.org Resist! Education, Immigration

Undocumented student protesters said they were concerned about what her appointment could mean for students like them. “She’s separated a lot of families,” said Wei Lee, an undocumented graduate of UC Santa Cruz, who noted that the UC system is home to many undocumented students. “We cannot allow someone like Janet Napolitano with her background and her experience to run this fine education system.” Lee, who is ethnically Chinese and was born and raised in Brazil, fell out of immigration status after being denied political asylum.

No Papers No Fear! Undocubus National Tour

June 24, 2013 Organize! Human Rights, Immigration

A group of activists from Phoenix, Arizona, organized a bus trip for undocumented voluntaries as part of a wider campaign called No Papers, No Fear, trying to bring the drama of undocumented people's life to the public attention and trying to empower the Latino community. Last year they toured parts of the Midwest and the Southwest Coast on the way to Charleston, North Carolina, where after 20 cities on ten states, the first chapter of the trip ended. The bus is now headed to California, touring the West Coast.

The Fast Against the Firings

June 19, 2013 David Bacon, www.inthesetimes.com Resist! Immigration, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

The fasters sought to make the victims of these “silent raids” visible and to express their moral outrage over the federal government’s tactic. Rev. Dr. Phil Lawson, Pastor Emeritus of Easter Hill United Methodist Church and leader of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, one of the fasters, declared, “These families have done nothing wrong. They're being punished for working, which is what people in our community are supposed to do. We will not allow these workers to be treated as though they are invisible. Being terminated because of immigration status is a violation of their human and civil rights.” The firings, or “silent raids,” are intended to enforce a provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 called "employer sanctions." That act makes it illegal for an employer to hire a worker who has no legal immigration status, and makes it illegal for undocumented workers to have a job.

Activists Protest Obama Fundraiser

June 10, 2013 Sharon Kyle, www.laprogressive.com Resist! Environment, Immigration

When word got out that President Obama was scheduled to attend a donor lunch at a private residence in an exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood, activists set out to greet him. After paying $32,400, at least one of the activists, Paul Scott, managed to wrangle an invitation to the event. But as soon as the organizers got wind of Scott’s activism — he is an electric car advocate – his invitation was politely revoked and his $32K was returned. But unlike Scott who managed to get an invitation, albeit temporarily, hundreds of other activists planned to have their voices heard without paying a dime.

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