Immigrant rights groups slam Obama, Democrats for slow action with legalization bil
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
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!
Homeland Security Targets “Criminal Aliens”
Thursday 18 February 2010
by: William Fisher, t r u t h o u t | Report
(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.
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.
Current Immigration Reform Legislation – links to info
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