Haitian deportations called death sentences

by Kate Howard
January 12, 2011
Jacksonville.com/The Florida Times-Union

Post-quake conditions called inhumane even for convicted criminals.

The U.S. government has quietly resumed deportation proceedings for Haitian natives in the country illegally, and immigration advocates across Florida have jumped into the fray, saying it amounts to a death sentence...

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Immigration as Partisanship

By Eugene Robinson
Truthdig
July 29, 2010

Christmas came early for demagogues. The court decision putting a hold on the worst provisions of Arizona’s new anti-Latino immigration law is a gift-wrapped present to those who delight in turning truth, justice and the American way into political liabilities...

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Alt.Latino: Immigrant Songs

JASMINE GARSD and FELIX CONTRERAS
National Public Radio
July 1, 2010

From Bolivia to Spain: Alt.Latino Chooses Six Songs About An Immigrant's Life

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Arizona’s Law May Spark Pro-Immigrant Movement

Valeria Fernández
April 23, 2010
New America Media

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 today, making Arizona the first state in the nation to consider it a crime for a person to be an undocumented immigrant. But the passage of the Arizona law may also have ignited the pro-immigration reform movement...

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Detained Migrant Women Shackled During Childbirth

Thursday 04 March 2010
by: Valeria Fernández | Inter Press Service

Phoenix, Arizona - When Maricopa County sheriff's deputies raided Celia Alejandra Alvarez's workplace and discovered her hiding place, she says they lifted her off her feet and slammed her face into a wall, causing injuries to her jaw and teeth. Later, in detention for having false documents, she says she was not given medical care...

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United States: End Detention of Refugees for Failure to File Forms

Human Rights Watch
December 29, 2009

"For the US government to bring persecuted refugees to this country and then turn around a year later and jail them because they didn't file immigration forms is ironic to the point of absurdity. This mindlessly bureaucratic policy unnecessarily traumatizes refugees and their families, not to mention wasting the government's resources."
Bill Frelick, refugee policy director at Human Rights Watch

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Grassroots migrant groups to meet in Athens

By Kathy Durkin
Workers' World
Oct 30, 2009

Athens, Greece, will be the setting Nov. 1-4 for the Second International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees. Migrants and refugees from grassroots organizations around the world will speak out on the horrific conditions facing workers who have to leave their homelands.

The IAMR is supported by a broad spectrum of migrants’ rights advocates, progressive workers’ groups and social movements. Their gathering will counter the government-led Global Forum on Migration and Development and the Civil Society Organizations, which are meeting the same week in Athens...

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