Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jul
26
Reposted from El Tecolote
Mano dura con inmigrantes: la historia se vuelve a repetir
Edmundo Rocha
A los partidarios de “sólo aplicación de la ley” (Enforcement Only) les encantaría tener un futuro en el que los 12 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados en los EEUU sean expulsados, ya sea utilizando medios coercitivos o voluntarios.
En un clima de miedo [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jun
25
Around 7AM, Wednesday, 150 to 200 ICE agents raided an East Houston plant, Action Rags U.S.A. The company has 240 employees. Bob Rutt, ICE’s agent in charge, would not specify what led them to plan this raid, which is at least the second major immigration enforcement action in Houston in recent months.
Here are the [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
May
20
[The is first part of the a two part series]
In a massive, coordinated effort, more than 100 agents from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) descended on AgriProcessors Inc., the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the country, in Postville, Iowa. The raid is considered to be one of the largest government dragnets against [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Mar
18
Breakthrough, a New York-based nonprofit international human rights organization, recently launched their video game, ICED! (I Can End Deportation), that aims to educate people on current immigration policies, and is targeted to a younger demographic.
Breakthrough is not new to the immigration game. Last summer, I wrote about the deportation of Anslem Ifill, an immigrant [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Feb
28
Mark Juvette, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, shot and killed himself, after an armed standoff with Grand Prairie, TX police. Police were called in to check on Juvette, 40, after co-workers expressed their concern for his wellbeing. ICE told police that Juvette called in sick on day about a week ago, saying he had [...]
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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.
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