Breakthrough, the same international human rights organization that brought you the video game, “ICED!,” has a new video, Don’t Deport Me, Scotty. From Breakthrough’s site: “See what happens when a permanent member of a popular space crew finds his status is in question. In any galaxy, when we deny due process and human rights to [...]
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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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The news around the blogosphere has to do with the bile that is filling the Arizona airwaves from radio talk show host, Jon Justice (104.1 The Truth) that is aimed at former Pima County Legal Defender, Isabel Garcia.
Here is the background from blogamigo, Manny:
Isabel is one of the major driving forces behind the Coalición de [...]
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Today, a Harris County grand jury decided that Joe Horn should not be charged for shooting the two immigrants he confronted outside his neighbor’s home in Pasadena.
Horn, 62, came under intense public scrutiny after the Nov. 14 shootings. Many supporters praised him as a hero for using deadly force to protect property, while as a [...]
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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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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.
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