Record breaking deportations in 2012
The Department of Homeland Security has deported more than 400,000 undocumented immigrants in the 2012 fiscal year, the most in the nation’s history, according to new data published by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The report, published on December 21st, indicated that a recor.... |
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Private prison companies profits in the billions
How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, class, sexual orientation, age or other inherent characteristics is a form of tyranny.
Yet few peo.... |
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ICE settles case on controversial home raids
This week, attorneys announced the settlement of a home raids case against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Seven men and women and one child brought the case in 2008 against more than thirty individual ICE officers for a series of predawn raids of their homes undertaken without consent.... |
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Organizations launch “Keeping Families Together”
Nearly 100 families joined leaders of the largest grassroots immigrant rights organizations in launching the “Keeping Families Together” campaign recently to call for comprehensive immigration reform.
The campaign was kicked off by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), a coalition of the l.... |
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Immigrant emancipation: The time is now
The bi-national dialogue between Mexico’s Vicente Fox and U.S. President George Bush immediately halted following 9-11. It has me wondering that if this catastrophic event had not occurred if America’s immigration policy would be different. America has reached a tipping point regarding immigration.... |
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Why real immigration reform means citizenship
The ramp-up to the upcoming immigration reform legislative battle has started and will continue to play out in public over the coming months. As America’s Voice Education Fund’s Executive Director Frank Sharry said the legislative “measures that pass are those are litigated in public, in a loud d.... |
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Facts are in: SB90 affects economy, civil rights
SB 90, Colorado’s anti-immigrant “show me your papers” law has drained local budgets and strained relations between immigrant communities and local law enforcement, according to reports from fiscal analysts and advocates released on December 5th. The advocates, who are members of the Campaign to U.... |
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Economic impact of immigration platforms
At their respective nominating conventions this summer, the Republican and Democratic parties could not have adopted more different platforms on the question of how to deal with the 11.5 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. The platform adopted by Republicans doubles down o.... |
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Unite Colorado promotes documentation hotline
Leaders from communities across Denver converged on Denver Civic Center Park on September 16th to continue the launch of the statewide 1-855-UNITE-4-1 immigration enforcement abuse documentation hotline. The hotline is part of the new Campaign to Unite Colorado. The campaign’s goal is to ensure th.... |
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Migrant Child
Aquí estoy,
here I am.
I am the shadow of your conscience,
the migrant child.
I am present, but never seen.
I am seen, but never present.
Here I am.
In narrow hallways of rejection,
seeking some design for existence.
I observe in silence
and try to define my being
then I awak.... |
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Beneath the Same Sky: ‘Reality has little to do with policy.”
We read plenty about the US-México border. We read plenty about immigration, national security and the “war on drugs”. But it rarely comes from someone who spent three decades working the borderland beat; a region where, according to author and former US border agent David Ramírez, “the reality ha.... |
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Deferred Action: Scammers promising quick processing
Some immigrants who were brought to the country as children can now apply for deferred action, a program that allows you to remain in the country and apply for work permits. The program has strict requirements and includes filing several forms, as well as a background check and evidence of eligibi.... |
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Deferred Action: Who can be considered?
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is accepting requests for consideration of deferred action for childhood arrivals. Deferred action is a discretionary determination to defer removal action of an individual as an act of prosecutorial discretion.
If you meet the guidelines, and want t.... |
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Frequently asked questions about Deferred Action
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released important details about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process, which will temporarily allow some eligible youth to go to school and work without fear of deportation.
Does this process apply to me if I am currently .... |
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Americans should be concerned about this law
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer called a news conference in Phoenix after the Supreme Court released its ruling on her state's "papers, please" immigration law. She announced that the key components of her law "unanimously have been vindicated by the highest court in the land." She beamed as she calle.... |
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