The Age of ‘Crimmigration’

A new study by the Pew Hispanic Center reports that Latinos have now become the largest single ethnic group in the U.S. federal prison system. The rising arrest and detention rates are driven largely by changes in immigration law that criminalize undocumented immigration, as nearly half of all Latino offenders were jailed on immigration-related “crimes”.

Read the full report here.


http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20090225_the_age_of_crimmigration/

Interpreting the Largest ICE Raid in U.S. History: A Personal Account

New America Media, Commentary, Erik Camayd-Freixas, Ph.D., Posted: Jul 11, 2008

Editor's Note: A Spanish-language interpreter in Postville, Iowa battled with his own ethical decisions about how to stay neutral during the largest single-site raid in U.S. history. He says nothing could have prepared him for the prospect of helping our government put hundreds of innocent people in jail.

POSTVILLE, Iowa -- On Monday, May 12, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., in an operation involving some 900 agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed a raid of Agriprocessors, Inc., the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant located in the town of Postville, Iowa. The raid – officials boasted – was “the largest single-site operation of its kind in American history.” At that same hour, 26 federally certified interpreters from all over the country were en route to the small neighboring city of Waterloo, Iowa, having no idea what their mission was...

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