immigrant rights

Four winds converge in rallies for workers & immigrants (Video)

Four winds converge in rallies for workers & immigrants (Video) May Day is International Workers' Day. In Los Angeles, several rallies and protests are planned to recognize the contributions workers are making to the country and to protest for better working conditions, fair pay and immigration reform.

Activists send hundreds of tacos to Conn. mayor

Activists send hundreds of tacos to Conn. mayor An immigration rights group, Reform Immigration for America, delivered 400 tacos to the office of Mayor Joseph Maturo in protest of his recent comments.

Latino activists say Arizona inmate on life support after jail fight with police, deputies

Latino activists say Arizona inmate on life support after jail fight with police, deputies A man found unresponsive in a jail cell after fighting with deputies over the weekend was on life support Monday, in a case that Latino activists say raises more questions about practices under Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Children’s Christmas wish campaign strives to keep immigrant families together

Children’s Christmas wish campaign strives to keep immigrant families together With Christmas only a few weeks away, children are finalizing their wish lists to give to Santa Claus. Yet for 5.5 million children, there is only one wish they have -- that Uncle Sam doesn't act like the Grinch and take away one or both of their parents for being undocumented.

Alabama highlights civil rights concerns in state immigration laws

Alabama highlights civil rights concerns in state immigration laws Kevin Johnson of the University of California Davis School of Law says that Alabama's immigration law highlights the civil rights implications of the recent state immigration laws and, in the case of Alabama, show parallels with previous efforts to prevent desegregation...

Meet Cecilia Muñoz’s “Collateral Damage”

Meet Cecilia Muñoz’s “Collateral Damage” Cecilia Muñoz, President Obama's primary aid and spokesperson on immigration policy, has come under intense criticism from the Latino community because she repeatedly calls the non-violent, non-criminal immigrant majority of people that the Obama Administration deports "criminals" and "collateral damage."

Colorado town debates whether school police can also work for ICE

Colorado town debates whether school police can also work for ICE What happens when the police officer who works at your high school also happens to moonlight as an immigration agent conducting raids in the neighborhood where you live? Latino middle and high school students in the Colorado town of Carbondale started reporting exactly this over a year ago.

Dignity not detention

Dignity not detention Under current U.S. immigration law, over 200,000 immigrants are imprisoned every year during their deportation hearings without any individual assessment of their risk to public safety or their vulnerability in detention.

Immigrant rights group plans boycott of ‘John and Ken’ radio show

Immigrant rights group plans boycott of ‘John and Ken’ radio show A coalition of Latino and immigrant rights groups said Thursday that it will move forward with a boycott of the popular “John and Ken” radio show after management at KFI-AM (640) station canceled a meeting with representatives.

Immigrant rights groups want radio hosts John and Ken off the air

Immigrant rights groups want radio hosts John and Ken off the air Immigrant Rights groups are calling on the radio station, KFI, to remove talk show hosts John and Ken or face a boycott of its sponsors.

Advocates furious at White House over deportation program

Advocates furious at White House over deportation program The resistance to the immigration enforcement program Secure Communities has reached a deafening roar as immigrant rights groups ramp up their organizing to demand an end to the Obama administration’s aggressive deportation initiative.

Hispanic family terrorized by immigration agents

Hispanic family terrorized by immigration agents Seven members of a Hispanic family from Los Angeles became victims of a mistaken drug raid at a home in the city of Norco in Riverside County by nearly 40 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security, Immigration (HSI) agents.

New effort to protect immigrants from fake immigration lawyers

New effort to protect immigrants from fake immigration lawyers Immigration officials are teaming up with federal and state prosecutors, the Federal Trade Commission, lawyers’ groups and immigrant advocate organizations in a new nationwide effort to combat an epidemic of schemes by people posing as immigration lawyers.

ICE misses deadline for report on Detroit field office

ICE misses deadline for report on Detroit field office In April U.S. ICE Director John Morton met with community groups in Detroit, promising to investigate reports of racial profiling and abuse by agents in the Detroit field office and issue a report within 30 days. This deadline has now passed with no indication as to when or how the agency will formally respond to concerns about unjust and violent immigration enforcement practices.

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