Obama signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance

August 15, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times  August 14, 2010

President Obama signed into law a $600 million bill on Friday to pay for 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned surveillance drones and new Border Patrol stations along the southwest border.

The measure sailed through Congress in little more than a week with broad bipartisan support, demonstrating Read more

ANOTHER IMMIGRATION POLICY IS POSSIBLE!

July 3, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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By David Bacon
Truthout Report
http://www.truth-out.org/another-immigration-policy-is-possible60995
        Thousands of leftwing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner “Another World is Possible!”  Among them hundreds added a new subtext:  “Another Immigration Policy is Possible!” Read more

Citizenship Law Fans Women’s Fears in Arizona

May 16, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments
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 By  Sharon Johnson
WeNews correspondent

Arizona’s new law on checking immigration papers rings special alarms
for women whose new names after marriage or divorce might not match
electronic records. Others in mixed-status relationships fear their
families could get torn apart.
 
http://www.womensenews.org/story/the-nation/100504/citizenship-law-fans-womens-fears-in-arizona 

Full article below:

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New immig. reform proposal based on human rights & a comparison chart

May 10, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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(from David Bacon – April 26, 2010)  see comparison chart following letter
Dear friends,

A year ago many organizations and individuals in northern California came
together to affirm the need for an immigration policy based on human rights.
At that meeting, we resolved to work on a strategy for meaningful
immigration reform, centered around an alternative to the kind of proposals
made in Congress over the last few years, and which we are hearing again
this year. Read more

Let’s Make It Real! Planning meeting-Apr. 12

April 9, 2010 by Lois · 1 Comment
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At the April 3rd meeting of Stop The Checkpoints it was decided to hold a Planning Meeting on Monday, April 12th at 4:00 pm at the Port Angeles Library (their week-long furlough days are over now).
 
Planning will take place for actions on May 1st to promote real immigration reform based on human rights and workers’ rights instead of corporate profits.  Read more

Next Meeting April 3, 2pm in Port Angeles

March 27, 2010 by admin · 1 Comment
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Stop The Checkpoints will meet in Port Angeles on Saturday, April 3rd, at 2:00 pm.  Due to Library furlough of workers for a week due to budget cuts, the meeting will be held in a home near the Library.  Please email info@stopthecheckpoints.com or call 360-452-7534 for the meeting location. 

Topic will be:  What real immigration reform should look like and how  we can achieve it!   Articles previously posted below provide some views on this topic.  Bring ideas for action plans.

Immigrant rights groups slam Obama, Democrats for slow action with legalization bil

March 24, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments
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By N.C. Aizenman and Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 9, 2010; A02

Leaders of nearly a dozen grass-roots immigrant rights groups excoriated President Obama and congressional Democrats on Monday, accusing them of moving too slowly Read more

Worker ID Card Spurs Controversy

March 16, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan

By LAURA MECKLER,  MARCH 8, 2010

Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required Read more

“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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(Photo: r3v || cls)

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

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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