“Secure Communities” lets ICE use local police in secret!

February 25, 2010 by Lois · Leave a Comment
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Homeland Security Targets “Criminal Aliens”

Thursday 18 February 2010

by: William Fisher, t r u t h o u t | Report

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A little-known program run by the Department of Homeland Security is using inaccurate databases and functioning “as little more than a dragnet to funnel even more people into the already overburdened” detention and deportation system of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, according to three civil rights organizations that have filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Read more

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France: 6,000 strike for work permits

February 25, 2010 by Lois · 1 Comment
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Film industry seeks to highlight plight of illegal workers 2/17/2010  A few days before French regional elections, a screenwriters’ collective has launched a movement to fight for legal status for those working in the country without the proper papers. Read more

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Reading List on history of guest worker laws in U.S.

February 15, 2010 by Lois · Leave a Comment
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Resources used for “History of guest workers laws in the U.S”

Educational talk by Lois Danks at Stop The Checkpoints meeting on Jan. 9, 2010 in Sequim, WA

Illegal People: How globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants, by David Bacon, Beacon Press, Boston, 2008

They Take Our Jobs and 20 other Myths about Immigration, by Aviva Chomsky, Beacon Press, Boston 2007 (at library)

Guarding the Golden Door: American immigration policy and Immigrants since 1882, by Roger Daniels, Hill & Wang, New York, 2004 (at library)

New Faces in New Places; The changing geography of American Immigration, Douglas S. Massey, editor, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2008 (at library)

There’s No Jose Here:  Following the hidden  lives of Mexican Immigrants, Gabriel Thompson, Nation Books, New York, 2007 (at library)

One Hemisphere Indivisible:  Permanent revolution and neoliberalism in the americas, Guerry Hoddersen, Red Letter Press, Seattle, 2006 (copies available from Lois Danks for $8.00)

Viva La Raza:  A History of Chicano Identity & Resistance, Yolanda Alaniz and Megan Cornish, Red Letter Press, Seattle. (www.redletterpress.com), 2008.

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Current Immigration Reform Legislation – links to info

February 15, 2010 by Lois · Leave a Comment
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Resources on Current Legislation in 111th Congress                     Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation

The Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act (CIR ASAP Act), H.R. 4321, creates an earned legalization program for undocumented immigrants; Read more

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Feb. 13, 2010 Meeting in Forks, WA

January 29, 2010 by Lois · 1 Comment
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Hello all!
Since we hear reports of stepped up detention activity by plainclothes agents (I.C.E.? or Border Patrol?) in the Forks area,
 
the Stop The Checkpoints’ February meeting will be in Forks at 2:00 pm on Saturday, Feb. 13th . 
 
We’ll gather at Cafe Paix: A Work in Progress at 71 North Forks Avenue –  It’s only a few blocks from the transit center if you want to ride the bus and walk to the Cafe.
 
We’ll have some signs there or you can bring your own for a street corner rally and/or sidewalk sign wave.  Recently a man who went to buy a loaf of bread was taken from outside a Mexican grocery store and a 16 year old was taken from near City Hall by plainclothes “agents”.  Their whereabouts are unknown.  These  ”agents” have been seen hanging around at the Forks DSHS office as well asking people for their papers, a violation of Homeland Security Department guidelines!
 
Since our meeting is on a three day weekend (Presidents’ Day is on Monday, Feb. 15th) there should be lots of visitors and Twilight fans coming to Forks, so let’s show them that we won’t stand for these continuing attacks on immigrant workers and families –our  families, friends, neighbors and co-workers.  We must stop these outrageous police state tactics by “agents” in plainclothes snatching people who are going about their daily life and taking them away in unmarked cars!
 
Join us in Forks on Saturday, Feb. 13 to defend civil liberties and stop racial profiling, raids and detentions!  We’ll have time to plan future actions and discuss what true immigration reform should look like.  If you want to carpool all or part way (can drive or need a ride) contact Lois Danks 360-452-7534 and I will coordinate. 
 
Lois Danks, Coordinator
Stop The Checkpoints
P.S. Be sure to check out our web page at www.stopthecheckpoints.com.  There are new articles posted and new links like the one to David Bacon’s website – with some dramatic and inspiring photographs of immigrant workers and stories of labor union activism led by immigrant hotel workers in California.
 
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