PRESS RELEASE
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Detention Watch Network Urges
Congress to Follow President’s Lead and Reduce Wasteful Spending on the
Incarceration of Immigrants
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Detention Watch Network
is encouraged by the Obama Administration’s request for a reduction in
immigration detention beds in the recent FY 2013 budget proposal.
Read more
Save The Date: Webinar on New Detention Visitation Policy
Friday, March 16, 1:00 pm EST
Join Detention Watch Network and Women’s Refugee Commission for a webinar on ICE’s
new visitation directive.
- How does the new policy change access to detention centers for members of the public?
- Why are these changes important?
- How can you and your community take advantage of them?
Register at:
http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/Visitwebinar
Sunday 11 March 2012 by: Mark Karlin, Truthout | News Analysis -(Photos by Mark Karlin)
This is the first in an occasional Truthout series on viewing the US “immigration” and Mexican border policies through a social justice lens, focusing on the lower Rio Grande Valley. Brownsville, Texas, area. Mark Karlin, editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout, visited the region recently to file these reports.
The physical Mexican-American wall starts as a newly fortified metal barrier extending 300 feet into the warm, balmy waters of Southern California and ends up some 2,000 miles later just east of Brownsville, Texas. But it would be wrong to think of it as continuous, because only about a third of that distance has some form of visible barrier running like a scar across the US border with Mexico. Read more
NYT Editorial March 6, 2012
Arizona’s extremist immigration law has gone another round in federal court — and lost again. The judge who rejected several of its provisions in 2010 temporarily blocked another section last week, the one making it a crime for day laborers to look for work on the street. Read more
By KIRK SEMPLE NYT March 8, 2012
Among all the numbers that populate Nataly Lopez’s life — including phone digits, addresses, pass codes and friends’ ages — there is one that she never forgets: the cost of a semester’s tuition at Baruch College, where she is a sophomore.
Ms. Lopez, 21, is an illegal immigrant from Ecuador and has struggled to make ends meet, working several jobs to be able to pay for school.
“Two thousand eight hundred and five,” she said. “I know that number because I have to reach it to get to the next semester.” Read more
By JOHN SCHWARTZ March 8, 2012 New York Times
A federal appeals court has blocked two parts of a tough new Alabama immigration law.
The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued an order on Thursday prohibiting enforcement of sections of the 2011 law that restricted commercial and government transactions for illegal immigrants. One of the provisions states that courts cannot enforce contracts that involve illegal immigrants; the other prohibits those in the country illegally from doing business Read more
WALL STREET JOURNAL: By Miriam Jordan March 5, 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203458604577261342745473460.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
A group of Silicon Valley technology leaders, impatient with attempts to rewrite
immigration laws, is funding efforts to help undocumented youths attend college,
find jobs and stay in the country despite their illegal status. Read more
Please see the poster linked below for information on a 3-part series of meetings in Port Angeles, WA on the first Saturdays of October, November, and December!
Forum 1 Oct 2011 flyer
By Paul Gottlieb Aug. 14, 2011 Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Staff members from the North Olympic Peninsula’s congressional delegation plan to meet this
month with the U.S. Border Patrol’s top supervisor for the Blaine sector to discuss a sore point among some Peninsula residents: stepped-up Border Patrol activities in Clallam and Jefferson counties. Read more
Tags: Benjamin Salinas, border patrol, Border Patrol expansion, Border Patrol station, Forks WA, homeland security, immigrant rights, immigration reform, Norm Dicks, police state, Sen. Graham immigration reform
Article published Jul 5, 2011 Peninsula Daily News news sources
OROVILLE — The U.S. Border Patrol will begin work at a $15 million,
22-acre complex outside of Oroville next summer. Read more
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