Deportations of illegal immigrants have reached new heights for two years running under President Obama, statistics show, but Republicans say they’ll use their new majority in the House to press for more aggressive enforcement without any path to legal status. Read more
Immigration raid almost destroys Postville, Iowa
Years after immigration raid, Iowa town feels poorer and less
stable
stable
By Liz
Goodwin
Goodwin
National Affairs Reporter
POSTVILLE, Iowa—A group of Jewish boys in
yarmulkes and winter coats walked past the “Taste of Mexico” restaurant on
Lawler Street last week on their way home from school. Minutes later, a Somali
man wearing a keffiyeh scarf around his neck passed by, perhaps on his way to
the town’s makeshift mosque on Main Street.
This improbably diverse rural town of about 2,000 people in northeastern Iowa
suffered a near-fatal shock more than three years ago when a federal immigration
raid scooped up 20 percent of its population in a single day. Read more
Report: Border Patrol Abuses on the Rise
Saturday 24 September 2011
by: Valeria Fernández, New America Media | Report
Phoenix, Ariz. – The number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped, but reports of abuses against immigrants are on the rise.
Those are the findings of a new report released by the Arizona humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths.
The report, “A Culture of Cruelty,” documents 30,000 incidents of human rights abuses against undocumented immigrants in short-term detention Read more
Northern border staffing levels draw scrutiny
Ten years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the greatly stepped-up presence of Border Patrol agents on the nation’s northern border is raising questions — especially about Port Angeles, where the number of agents has increased tenfold and one agent has testified that there’s too little to do. Read more
Border Patrol arrest at farmers’ market stuns bystanders
Article published Sep 4, 2011 Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Bystanders said they were shocked by the arrest of a
vendor by the Border Patrol on Saturday.
Sequim resident and Korean national Hung Han was detained at about 2:30 p.m. while helping his parents pack up their Port Angeles Farmers Market produce stand at The Gateway transit center in downtown. Read more
In Tijuana Deported Migrants Struggle to Survive
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — After 15 years of
installing marble in homes in Escondido, California, Porfirio Perez was caught
without a driver’s license during a February traffic stop and deported. Now the 42-year-old just tries to survive in this sprawling industrial border city, 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from his birthplace of Puebla in central Mexico. He is among hundreds of deportees who are stuck in Tijuana, which sits across from San Diego, California. Some don’t have
the money for a bus trip home. Some are waiting Read more
Republicans push for more raids
By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau - January 27, 2011