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
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
Saturday 24 September 2011
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
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
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
| 8/17/2011 6:00:00 AM |
| The U.S. Border Patrol has a little explaining to do to the communities of the North Olympic Peninsula. We’re glad to see its representatives making the rounds to Clallam County business groups and hope to see them here too.The subject: Why do we need such a dramatic expansion of the Border Patrol mission in this corner of Washington state? Read more |
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
