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November 20, 2009

Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don’t get insurance through their employers.

Some U.S. Democrats see momentum building for an overhaul of immigration laws that would legalize millions of undocumented workers, but analysts say a crowded agenda and struggling economy may once again sink hopes for reform next year.

Immigration Reform: The Phone Call Heard Around the Country – On the call were Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.; Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y.; and Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz. Immigrant rights advocates from various parts of the country also spoke.

ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton announces 1,000 new workplace audits to hold employers accountable for their hiring practices

In Virtual Town Hall with Immigration Reform Activists, Gutierrez Promises Bill By December

Economic Blame Game: U.S. Unemployment is Not Caused by Immigration

November 19, 2009

Members of Franklin County’s Hispanic community meet with Immigration officials to discuss becoming legal residents – Pennsylvania

More Than 60,000 Americans in 45 States Organize for Immigration Reform

From the Bookshelves: And You Welcomed Me: Migration and Catholic Social Teaching

New Report Shines Light on Detainee Rights Violations in Minnesota

There are 16 million children in immigrant families in the United States

Immigration, Yet Another Issue: How Many Hard Votes Can Congress Take?

November 18, 2009

Partying Across the Nation for Immigration Reform – Families, Freedom and Faith: A Call to Action for Immigration Reform

On November 18 at 8:00 PM Eastern time/5:00 PM Pacific, all across the country people are hosting house parties with their families, friends, neighbors, churches, classmates and anyone else who supports comprehensive immigration reform for America.

After accidental deportation, critics say immigration officials making mistakes – After a Salvadoran man was mistakenly deported, immigration rights activists have complained about toughened enforcement by authorities.

Governor Deval Patrick urged Massachusetts residents today to avoid getting mired in “the usual debate” over illegal immigration as he gave his cabinet 90 days to craft a plan for better integrating all foreign-born residents into the state’s daily fabric.

Video report of Latina forced to give birth while in chains in Maricopa County, AZ courtesy of Sheriff Joe Arpaio (en Español)

The Utah Forensics Team is hosting a debate Thursday centered around the issue of immigration reform in Utah. – The event, titled “Broken Borders: Debating the State of Immigration,” will feature Tony Yapias, the former director of the Utah State Office of Hispanic Affairs; Utah Reps. Mike Noel and Chris Herrod; and Dee Rowland, a government liaison for the Utah Catholic Diocese

Hundreds of defendants awaiting trial for violent crimes in Dallas County have been deported by federal immigration officials and then set free in their home countries. – The practice goes back to at least 1991 and includes the release of murder, kidnapping and child rape suspects.

Supreme Court Hears Case about Immigrants’ Access to Federal Court Review

Immigrant Advocates Welcome Napolitano Statement, Will Hold House Parties This Week to Support Reform

Deporting undocumented students affects the chances for legal return if Congress doesn’t address it in immigration reform bill

Eleventh-hour criticism is arising over President Obama’s nomination for United States attorney in northern Iowa of a prosecutor who had a leading role in the criminal cases against hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in a May 2008 raid at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. – Stephanie Rose

Immigration legislation recognizes new reality

Undocumented workers impact Mississippi’s economy

From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States by mapping the safest routes to take. – This GPS app is built to work on the cheapest cell phones available.

The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies announces the publication of the first fieldwork-based study of the impacts of the U.S. economic crisis on Mexican migration to the United States

The Pro-Immigrant Movement: Fighting On, Despite All The Obstacles

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has launched its 13th immigration and crime sweep and reported 27 arrests by Monday night.

November 16, 2009

Where two contentious issues intersect- Immigration and health House measure omits Senate panel’s legal test

Scarlet “A” will dominate immigration reform rhetoric – Greg Tejeda on immigration reform & Janet Napolitano’s speech

A Chicago City Council committee wants federal officials to halt deportation proceedings against immigrant students. – The Human Relations Committed on Friday approved a resolution urging the Department of Homeland Security to allow immigrant students to stay in the U.S. – Rigo Padilla

The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

CAUSA: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Needed To Keep Country Secure, Administration Committed to Reform says Napolitano

Hundreds of young people demonstrated on Friday inside city hall to ask for an end to the deporting of undocumented immigrants, in particular a young Mexican man attending the University of Illinois at Chicago. – Rigo Padilla

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday reaffirmed President Obama’s determination to pass comprehensive immigration reform that includes the touchy issue of legalizing 12 million undocumented immigrants.

The Center for American Progress applauds Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s push to move forward with the congressional debate.

Statement on Sec. Napolitano’s First Speech on Immigration Reform

November 13, 2009

Postville Raid: Eighteen months have passed since immigration agents raided Agriprocessors Inc. meat plant, arrested nearly 400 workers, and sent the plant spiraling into bankruptcy. – On Thursday, the plant’s former vice president – Sholom Rubashkin – was found guilty of 86 of 91 counts of financial crimes. – Verdict brings closure to many in Postville

Dobbs’ CNN departure leaves me cold – (Gregory Tejeda’s insightful post – good read)

Federal authorities have identified more than 111,000 immigrants with criminal records being held in local jails, during the first year of a program that seeks to deport immigrants who have committed serious crimes.

CAUSA: Lou Dobbs Departure Brings us Closer to Rational Debate on Immigration Reform

New Article from SSRN on NAFTA’s Impacts on Immigration

GOP should take a cue from Lou Dobbs and resign their attack strategy on illegal immigration

Stop the deportation of Rigo Padilla

Guest Voz: NJ Mayor says it makes sense to grant citizenship to undocumented immigrants – Michael Wildes mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.

America’s Enduring Exceptionalism

Employment Verification: Repairing our Broken Immigration System

November 12, 2009

3a parte serie especial – Los anti inmigrantes: el coro de la intolerancia

Las Redadas Silenciosas

AILA WELCOMES SEN. MENENDEZ (D-NJ) INTRODUCTION OF THE MILITARY FAMILIES ACT

November 11, 2009

The House Health Care Reform Bill and Immigrants

Reporting for the Big Bend Sentinel, Sterry Butcher reported on the US Department of Homeland Security’s new mass deportation program taking place in Presidio, Texas.

Lawsuit targets immigration enforcement – Racial profiling alleged in Salvadoran’s arrest in Frederick

“Silent” immigration raid in Minneapolis is more humane but still traumatic for mixed-status families

Domestic Violence In Immigrant Communities: Often Triggered by Stress and Complicated by Immigration Status – This is the first in a special two-part series on domestic violence in immigrant communities by Feet in Two Worlds reporters.

November 10, 2009

Members of a Guatemalan family living in Marin County are now separated by thousands of miles after immigration officials deported the parents of three children overnight. – California

A man who helped load smuggled immigrants into a tractor-trailer in which 17 of them later died in Victoria was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison Monday. – Abelardo Flores Jr in Texas

One of the largest immigration crackdowns under the Obama administration to date took place in the Twin Cities last month, when 1,200 undocumented janitors were ‘quietly’ fired from their jobs

November 9, 2009

Two women (Latinas) who had applied and been approved under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that gives them permits to be in the country legally report being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, arrests that landed them in jail, in one case for an entire month.

Many illegal immigrants deported in ‘a cloud of uncertainty’

Iraq war veteran’s wife spared deportation – Frances Barrios, who was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child, receives humanitarian parole and can stay in Los Angeles and apply for a green card. Her husband suffers from post-traumatic stress.

November 7, 2009

Comprehensive Immigration Reform Symposium: San Francisco’s Role in Shaping National Immigration Policy – November 9, 2009

George Mason University Study Shows Deep Anti-Immigration Sentiment in Pockets of Prince William County

Would Mass Deportation Mean More Jobs for U.S. Workers?

November 6, 2009

The closing immigration window

THE LEGALIZATION SOLUTION – IPC Reports Highlight Gains Made From Legalization Programs Past and Explore Future Legalization Proposals

Activists Push for Immigration Reform on Anniversary of Long Island Hate Crime – Marcelo Lucero

Native American corporations, particularly an array of Alaska Native Corporations, have become major defense and homeland security contractors – responsible for a wide range of national security operations, including electronic surveillance on the border, running immigrant detention centers, and supplying security and other services in U.S. overseas wars and energy exploitation.

Senate Democrats Thursday blocked a GOP attempt to require next year’s census forms to ask people whether they are U.S. citizens – Vitter’s attempts fail

November 5, 2009

Mixed impressions inside the poll numbers – Texans on immigration

Coalition calls for public oversight in new San Bernardino 287(g) agreement

For immigrants, illness can bring a death sentence

A lesson in effecting change — and compassion — on immigration front

New Immigration Article: Of Hope and Humility: Christian Realism, Immigration Reform and Executive Leadership

November 4, 2009

Native Americans Profit from Abusive Immigrant Detention and Billions of Dollars in National Security Contracts

A soldier every 3 feet on the US/Mexico border = 6,930,880 soldiers – Immigration Anecdotes

Stop the Deportation of the Mejia-Perez Family; Parents of a Dreamer

New Immigration Book on the Politics of Immigration Reform

39% of NY Immigration Detainees Have Meritorious Claims

Tom Wolfe’s upcoming book explores immigration in Miami

Board of Immigration Appeals Rules Not to Reopen Old Deportation Cases

The debate over health care for illegal immigrants continues to percolate in Congress despite the Obama administration’s efforts to put it to rest, with lawmakers in both houses also wrangling over how much coverage to provide for immigrants who have settled in the country legally.

November 2, 2009

Latinos need more than lip service – Families are being torn apart by America’s broken immigration system. President Obama needs to show leadership and fix it – (the view from England)

The 287(g) policy has become a perverted version of its original intent in Tennessee

More than 200 bodies recovered at Arizona/Sonora border

Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.

Remembrance at the border: Migrants killed while crossing remembered – About 200 attended the vigil hosted by the Border Network for Human Rights to honor the memory of undocumented immigrants who have died while trying to cross the border.

Immigrant Jail Tests U.S. View of Legal Access – City Bar Justice Center is calling for all immigrant detainees to be provided with counsel.

October 30, 2009

Detained immigrant’s death leaves far-reaching questions – the case of Dominican Pedro Tavarez in Massachusetts

Los que se quedan (”Those who remain”,) a film about migration

Labor Pains: How Our Broken Immigration System Hurts All Workers

Senator Reid States He Is Keeping Anti-Immigrant Vitter Amendment From the Senate Floor

U.S. May Be Open to Asylum for Spouse Abuse – Immigration lawyers said the administration had taken a major step toward clarifying a murky area of asylum law and defining the legal grounds on which battered and sexually abused women in foreign countries could seek protection here.

San Francisco mayor vetoes new city sanctuary law

Ten New Haven residents filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing federal agents of violating their rights during an immigration raid they say was in retaliation for a city program that provided ID cards to foreigners in the country illegally — the first of its kind in the nation.

October 29, 2009

Not a healthy state for all Latinos in the US – Undocumented foreign-born Latinos face serious financial and language barriers to quality health care

Immigrant Hispanic community protests law-enforcement action in Ohio’s far northeast corner

Obama Official: Immigration Reform Will Be Introduced Once Votes to Pass It Are Assured

October 28, 2009

CNN Columnist Ruben Navarrette: Immigration Reform Must Wait – response to Rep. Luis Gutierrez

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