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Hundreds Of Immigrants Will Launch Protests: “A Day Without Immigrants”

February 10, 2017 Carlos Rojas, www.lahuelga.com , ,
By Carlos Rojas for Cosecha - Boston, MA - On Friday, February 10th, hundreds of immigrant workers, parents, and youth from across the country will gather in Boston for a 3-day national assembly. The goal is to plan a series of migrant-led boycotts and strikes under the theme “Un Dia Sin Inmigrantes” (A Day Without Immigrants). Cosecha announced the first national day of boycotts and strikes on May Day (5/1/17) and will continue building towards a 7-day strike. Through boycotts and strikes, Cosecha seeks to demonstrate to the American public that this country cannot operate without its workforce, which is primarily composed of immigrants and poor people.

Donald Trump Declared War On ‘Sanctuary Cities.’ They’re Already Fighting Back.

January 27, 2017 Staff, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Staff of The Huffington Post - SAN FRANCISCO ― One of President Donald Trump’s first major executive actions on immigration policy is facing massive political blowback and will almost certainly crash and burn under the Constitution once courts begin to scrutinize the fine print. During a visit to the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order aimed at strong-arming so-called “sanctuary cities” into cooperating fully with his efforts to ramp up deportations. Threatening loss of federal funding and using shaming tactics for localities that refuse to comply, the order is styled as a call to obey existing immigration laws...

The Real Baltimore: Sanctuary Cities As Resistance To Donald Trump

January 23, 2017 Staff, www.therealnews.com , , , ,
By Staff of The Real News Network - Because there are only about 5,000 federal immigration officers nationwide, authorities rely heavily on local authorities to help with deportations. Some of the strongest sanctuary policies exist in cities like Chicago, and the encompassing Cook County, which prevents local authorities from asking for immigration status. Prevents the sharing of immigration status with federal authorities, and refuses to hold immigrants without a warrant. Courts have ruled these policies, known as ICE Detainers, are unconstitutional and violate the 4th Amendment.

As Resistance Grows, Trump’s Deportation Plans Unravel

January 2, 2017 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Cost, impossible logistics, political opposition, and community resistance could spell the end of the president-elect's anti-immigrant scheme. President-elect Donald Trump built his campaign on a pledge to build a wall and deport two to three million undocumented immigrants, but the likelihood that his promises will be kept are looking increasingly slim, as reality takes hold and lawmakers and community leaders begin to build their resistance. The failure to execute Trump's oft-repeated deportation plans could "be one of the first reality checks on his administration," Politico reported Friday.

Teach-Ins Turn Immigrant Anxiety Into Action

December 27, 2016 Renee Feltz, www.indypendent.org ,
By Renee Feltz for The Indypendent - On a rainy night in early December, law students, lawyers, advocates and immigrants pack a lecture hall at Columbia Law School for an immigrant-rights teach-in. Next to a sign-up sheet at the door are three urns of coffee. None are decaf. At the front of the room stands Professor Rose Cuison Villazor, a seasoned legal advocate for immigrants and the first of many speakers from university and ­community-based legal services agencies. “Let me begin by talking about president-elect Donald Trump,” she says, quieting everyone but a few interpreters. The next three hours are a crash course on who Trump’s administration will likely target first for deportation, and how to protect and support their rights.

A Radical Proposal For Radical Times

December 24, 2016 Aviva Chomsky, www.nacla.org , ,
By Aviva Chomsky for NACLA - Donald Trump’s election left many immigrant rights activists in a panicked thought loop. What did he actually say he would do? If he was saying he would deport “criminal aliens” and “build a wall,” is that really any different from what we’ve already seen under the Obama administration? Could he really deport 11 million people? Would he really eliminate President Obama’s signature successful pro-immigrant action, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which granted temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented youth? If he did, what would happen to these young people?

Private Prison In Ohio Makes Room For 2000 ICE Detainees

December 20, 2016 César, www.crimmigration.com , , , , ,
By César for CrImmigration - Yesterday, CoreCivic, the new name for the Corrections Corporation of America, announced a new contract with ICE to imprison thousands of migrants in Ohio. CoreCivic/CCA will operate 2,016 beds for ICE at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center. CoreCivic/CCA already holds approximately 600 migrants at the same facility on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service. While people being held on behalf of ICE are generally awaiting immigration court hearings, those held on behalf of USMS are held pending federal criminal prosecution. This represents another instance in which ICE helps boost the bottom line for private prison corporations.

Public Banks Can Help Cities Honor Promise To Give Sanctuary To Immigrants

December 15, 2016 Matt Stannard and Marc Armstrong, www.truthdig.com , ,
By Matt Stannard and Marc Armstrong for Truth Dig - Mayor Javier Gonzales of Santa Fe, N.M., was defiant when he spoke with National Public Radio’s Kelly McEvers in November. Donald Trump had just won the election after running on a strong anti-immigrant platform, emphasizing his intent to cut federal funding to “sanctuary cities,” municipalities that have pledged to neither detain nor prosecute people solely for being undocumented immigrants. Gonzales said that would not, while mayor, use municipal funds or resources to enforce federal immigration laws, nor would he allow police or city employees to inquire about a person’s immigration status.

Conversations On Trump’s America: The Coming Immigration Wars

December 14, 2016 Bobbi Murray, www.capitalandmain.com , ,
By Bobbi Murray for Capital and Main - Maria Elena Durazo: There is a great degree of worry about Trump giving permission to do harm in our communities, to immigrant families and immigrant neighborhoods–permission for people to attack, to harass kids, adults. Our job in the labor movement is to create safe-work places. Here in Los Angeles, and in a number of cities, officials are standing up and saying we’re not going to allow our local police to cooperate with ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.] Our schools are saying we’re not going to allow ICE to come in. Families have an earthquake plan. Who do you call? How do you react?

Immigrant Youth In The Silicon Valley: Together We Rise

December 6, 2016 Staff, www.labor.ucla.edu , , ,
By Staff of UCLA Labor Center - Undocumented youth are concentrated in service sectors, such as food and retail, construction, administrative work, and waste management. Undocumented young workers are 50% more likely to be “front-line” workers. Front-line jobs are low-wage, entry-level jobs, such as the floor positions in retail stores, counter staff at a fast food restaurant, and nonsupervisory positions at the construction site. Undocumented youth earn 28% less than other youth and earn less than what is needed to live in the area. Undocumented youth are diverse and a core part of the Silicon Valley community.

What Will Become Of ‘Sanctuary Cities’ After Trump?

November 16, 2016 Rebecca McCray, www.takepart.com , , ,
By Rebecca McCray for Takepart - Chief among the long list of marginalized groups likely to be affected by President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for his first 100 days in office are immigrants. Trump has promised to “cancel” executive orders issued by President Obama that excuse DREAM Act beneficiaries and their families from deportation, build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and deport “the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back,” according to the plan.

Immigrant Youth Sues Government Over Protest Arrest

May 27, 2016 Staff, www.notonemoredeportation.com , , , ,
By Staff of Not One More Deportation - Ireri Unzueta Carrasco is an educator, gardener, daughter and sister. Since 2010 when immigrant youth first came out of the shadows, she’s been part of the push of undocumented people struggling for civil and human rights. Now she is suing USCIS, the agency within the Department of Homeland Security that approves deferred action, to challenge its punishing decision to deny her daca renewal. The agency says that her involvement in the political protests that moved the President to create the deportation relief program is grounds to reject her application on “public safety” concerns.

Importance Of Black Leadership In Immigrant Rights

April 28, 2016 Anshantia Oso, www.truth-out.org , ,
By Anshantia Oso for Truthout - On April 18 the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States v. Texas, the case challenging President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration. The president's measures are designed to protect nearly 4.5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to apply for work permits under the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA).

Immigration Detainees Begin Hunger Strike At Georgia Center

April 22, 2016 Roque Planas, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Roque Planas for The Huffington Post - Two undocumented immigrants locked in Stewart Detention Center in rural Georgia are refusing food, authorities said Thursday. The protest, described as a hunger strike by an immigration attorney, comes a few months after a major disturbance at the for-profit detention center, which contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE, which issued a statement confirming two inmates were rejecting food, didn’t provide details and declined to make the inmates available for telephone interviews, citing privacy concerns.

Being Undocumented Black Immigrant In America Is A ‘Lonely Experience’

March 30, 2016 Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, www.thinkprogress.org , , ,
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee for Think Progress - The pendulum swing of the campaign debate on immigration issues has largely centered on either denouncing undocumented Latino immigrants or getting their eligible family members to take to the polls on Election Day. It seems unsurprising that the conversation heavily focuses on Latinos — after all, 59 percent of the 11.3 million undocumented population are from Mexico. But there are also 400,000 undocumented black immigrants living in the United States who have largely been left out of the debate over immigration reform.
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