Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jun
09
On May 14, five Indian guest workers launched a water-only hunger strike outside the White House to protest the slave-like conditions that more than 500 Indian welders and pipe fitters have endured while working at the Signal International, a marine oil rig construction company based in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Each workers paid $20,000 to a recruiting agency [...]
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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
May
10
In this country, policies concerning immigration continually confront politicians to make difficult decisions. In a democracy, every public policy requires some accommodations from what experts might conceive as a technocratic ideal to adapt to political pressures. There is no reason to expect that policy toward who is allowed to work in a country would be [...]
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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
01
CNN just reported that the US just settled an immigrant drugging suit. Amadou Diouf, an immigrant from Senegal, and another immigrant, Raymond Soeoth of Indonesia, accused ICE agents of injecting them with drugs against their will as they were about to be deported back in 2007. Soeoth’s medical records indicate one of the drugs used [...]
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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.
