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October 28, 2009
Immigrants sue feds over 2007 raid – Residents allege 2007 immigration raids in New Haven were unconstitutional
American Rights at Work – Immigration Study Finds Enforcement Has Undermined Workers’ Rights
October 2, 2009
With the 2010 census 6 months away, the Commerce Department said Thursday it won’t seek a halt to immigration raids as it did in the previous census in hopes of improving participation in hard-to-count communities.
September 30, 2009
Immigration Crackdown With Firings, Not Raids
September 1, 2009
Drama About Immigration Raids and their Human Consequences in Arizona Is No Fiction for Many – The Tears of Lives, a play produced by Phoenix’s New Carpa Theater Company and written by James Garcia
August 13, 2009
Children of Detained Immigrants Call for End to Raids in Arizona: Raid Today One of the Largest
Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies early Thursday launched an employer’s sanctions raid at a Valley paper company and planned to detain more than 100 employees in connection with using false or stolen IDs.
August 6, 2009
Latino Groups Criticize Obama On Immigration Raids
July 20, 2009
A documentary by a Denver-based film company brings the now-fading raids at Swift & Co. back to the fore, delving into a spectrum of issues surrounding both the raid and the wider subject of immigration reform. – “Swift Justice”
June 29, 2009
The single biggest event that caused the real estate debacle was the nationwide increase in immigration raids by ICE Agents from the DHS – (interesting commentary)
June 19, 2009
A national commission released a report today that says there was a “systematic abuse of worker rights” during the federal immigration raids that included the 2006 raid at the Swift meatpacking plant in Marshalltown and the 2008 raid Agriprocessors in Postville.
June 17, 2009
Immigrant Family Torn Apart in Arizona Raid – Sheriff Arpaio has arrested 248 immigrants in raids allegedly aimed at unlawful hiring, but no employer has been penalized.
April 7, 2009
ICE continues targeting Hawaii’s undocumented community with worksite and home raids
March 21, 2009
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is calling on the White House to end immigration raids that split up families. Cardinal Francis George
March 3, 2009
Activists Protest Immigration Raids In Phoenix – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched deputies into Hispanic communities in the Phoenix area.
December 12, 2008
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement raid at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants.
December 10, 2008
Advocates for immigrants in Miami demanded an investigation Tuesday into a series of federal raids last month that they said left at least six Guatemalan men bloodied and bruised in a roundup of nearly 100 people.
December 8, 2008
Two years after Swift raid: Latino community still reeling – Utah
November 17, 2008
Sixty-seven percent of the Latino vote should be enough to pay for a moratorium on immigration raids
November 6, 2008
Lawyers representing a group of immigrants facing deportation are aggressively challenging the tactics used by federal immigration agents in raids last summer in New Haven.
October 8, 2008
Federal agents detained more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants Tuesday in a raid at a chicken processing plant that has been under investigation for months. – Greenville, South Carolina
September 15, 2008
On the lookout for immigration raids – Activist networks have sprung up to prepare illegal immigrants for possible federal activity in their communities.
Immigration raids worry small towns
September 12, 2008
51 illegal immigrants, 2 others arrested in raid at Palm Springs bakery
September 5, 2008
Federal immigration agents arrested a total of 23 people illegally working in the United States in several raids throughout the day on Wednesday. – Northern California
In what’s being hailed as an important victory for South Florida immigrants, Lake Worth has reached a settlement with seven Guatemalan families left homeless from a nighttime raid by city officials in 2006.
August 28, 2008
E-Verify faces added scrutiny in the wake of Mississippi raid – Postville’s Agriprocessors raid now second largest in U.S. history
ACLU Investigating Largest Immigration Raid In The Country – Reports Of Government Discrimination And Secrecy Trigger Scrutiny – Mississippi
August 26, 2008
When Reality is Ignored by the Political Theorists : Mississippi Raids Ignored
DNC Hispanic Caucus : Loretta Sanchez Says She Knows Nothing About Miss. Raids (and calls me girl)
Howard Industries is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic transformers and transportation equipment. Early Monday morning, the Laurel facility was swarming with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. After hours of interviewing all the employees on site, 350 illegal immigrants were identified. – Mississippi
August 17, 2008
Immigration Is Snaring U.S. Citizens In Its Raids
July 17, 2008
Loveland ICE raid nets 18 arrests – Colorado
Immigration agents arrest 31 in courthouse sweep – Rhode Island
June 26, 2008
Citizens sue after detentions, immigration raids
June 23, 2008
The Dragnet for “Fugitive Aliens”
June 19, 2008
Lawman’s raids on immigrants spark fury in Phoenix – Sheriff Joe Arpaio
June 11, 2008
DHS: Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Department of Commerce Secretary Gutierrez at the State of Immigration Address
June 10, 2008
Suspected Illegal Immigrants Deported Without Getting Their Day in Court – Due process is a vitally important tenet of liberal democracy.
June 9, 2008
Federal contractors must ‘E-Verify’ employees’ eligibility to work
U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids – Federal agents say they try to act humanely when a parent is arrested, but advocates charge that youngsters are often traumatized and are sometimes left without supervision.
June 2, 2008
Bush administration steps up immigration raids – Election year aside, ICE vows to go full force
Latino agency develops position on immigration raids – Nevada
May 28, 2008
Geraldo Rivera: Secretary Chertoff, Call Off These Raids – Politics on The Huffington Post
SEIU Urged: End Attacks Against Puerto Rico Teachers
May 27, 2008
In L.A., coping with the threat of deportation – Advocates are urging illegal immigrants to make plans for issues such as bail, lawyers and child caretakers.
May 22, 2008
ACLU Demands Government Restore Basic Legal Protections To Meatpacking Workers Arrested In Iowa Raids
Hispanics bracing themselves for more ICE raids – Quad-Cities, Iowa/Illinois
Hispanic lawmakers denounce immigration raids
May 20, 2008
Homeland Security ignored Iowa officials’ pleas to postpone Postville raid until criminal investigation of plant management completed (Latina Lista)
National Council of La Raza President Calls For Smart, Humane, and Effective Enforcement of Immigration and Labor Laws
Are immigration raids really doing what backers claim?
May 19, 2008
National Council of La Raza To Testify at Congressional Hearing On Immigration Raids’ Impact on Children and Families
Immigration enforcement in California turns focus to the workplace – sacbee.com
May 15, 2008
Some illegal immigrants fear raids by federal agents – Suffolk County, New York
Postville immigration raid sends shockwaves – Dubuque County Hispanics feel the impact – Iowa
May 14, 2008
Temporary worker program blocked by Congressional Hispanic Caucus
May 13, 2008
Immigration raid: Workers take care, take cover – (in other parts of Iowa)
May 8, 2008
Berkeley students protest ICE raids – California
Illegal-immigrant crackdowns have Valley churches on edge – Arizona
May 7, 2008
May Day becomes an annual tradition for immigrant and workers’ rights
ICE raids on homes panic schools, politicians – Berkeley and Oakland
May 6, 2008
Angelica Salas: ICE raids hurt our diverse society
SEIU Warns of the Disastrous Impact on All Working People and Renews the Call for Smart, Pragmatic Reform
May 5, 2008
Immigrants Riled by Irish Push for Special Status
Immigration reform is goal in annual protest – (over a 1000 march in Detroit)
Fewer immigration marchers rally in Dallas, U.S. – (More than 100 marchers in Dallas!)
May 1, 2008
Mexican Consulate To Visit Mt. Pleasant After ICE Raids
April 30, 2008
Iowa’s Governor Vilsack: Immigration raids were unconstitutional
Radio Iowa: Panel probes 2006 immigration raids at Swift plants
April 25, 2008
Salvation Army Helps Local Hispanic Families – after the raids at Chattanooga’s Pilgrim’s Pride
April 24, 2008
LULAC Supports the STRIVE Act Which is a Realistic and Fair Immigration Reform and a Moratorium on Raids Around the Country
April 21, 2008
Immigration sweeps underscore the extent businesses fear not complying with new rules (Latina Lista)
Hispanic community rocked by plant raid – Chattanooga, Tennessee last Wednesday
April 12, 2008
Villaraigosa on immigration – The mayor is right to ask DHS to focus on crime-fighting instead of workplace raids.
April 8, 2008
Commission hears testimony on US immigration raids – Massachusetts
April 7, 2008
US immigration raids violated constitution
March 31, 2008
Immigration agents arrest 49 during raids of Dallas Latino night clubs
Phoenix mayor Phil Gordon: Arpaio immigration raids are ‘made-for-TV stunts’
March 26, 2008
Armando Torres Morales, 75; UCLA scholar, activist on Latino issues
Students stomach fasts to help families affected by ICE raids during Cesar Chavez celebrations – University of Northern Colorado
March 25, 2008
Latino Film Festival Draws Large Crowds to San Diego
March 18, 2008
March a dilemma for Hispanics – (not the month but marches planned for May 1st)
