Put forth by XicanoPwr
Dec
22
Back in April, I wrote that Texas was becoming home of the new American concentration camp because Williamson County’s T. Don Hutto Correctional Residential Center, a private detention facility in Taylor, Texas, became the newest facility for Homeland Security that would house “immigrants not from Mexico, but caught in Texas.”
While we sit in our [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Deportation, Human Rights, Immigration, La Migra, Nativism, Racism, Raza, Xmas | 
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Dec
21
We are often told that America is such a wonderfully free country and that is why we are taking our show on the road to spreed the wonderful joys of freedom across the globe. Without our benevolence, backwards peoples will have to labor on in their own delusions, never understanding what true liberty is all [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Dec
21
A couple nights a ago, I was watching the news and my local news station had a story about Houston’s new graffiti law – an Orwellian law that goes after the victims, but that is not what this is about.
It is funny how mindless American media can be as they miss the forest for [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Dec
20
In any society, there will be tensions between order and liberty � this is inevitable. But all too often, the United States government pushes this tension far beyond the limits imposed by our Constitution, laws, and traditions. Last week, federal agents raided six meatpacking facilities and arrested more than 1,200 workers. Immigration officials stated that [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Concentration Camp, Deportation, Human Rights, Immigration, Immigration Debate, Nativism, Racism, Raza, Republican, Round-ups | Tags: | functional 7 Comments »
Put forth by XicanoPwr
Dec
14
Hey what is going on here, it seems the day after Ciro Rodriguez was elected; Homeland Security�s Gestapo went on another raid. (hat tip to Nezua at The Unapologetic Mexican). I guess we have forgotten “our place” and how we should thank our master’s for allowing us to lick their boots. Not really, this [...]
Posted in George Bush, Human Rights, Immigration, Immigration Debate, La Migra, Racism, Raza, Round-ups | Tags: | functional 8 Comments »
This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
