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Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 28th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Immigrants sue feds over 2007 raid – Residents allege 2007 immigration raids in New Haven were unconstitutional

American Rights at Work – Immigration Study Finds Enforcement Has Undermined Workers’ Rights

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 2nd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

With the 2010 census 6 months away, the Commerce Department said Thursday it won’t seek a halt to immigration raids as it did in the previous census in hopes of improving participation in hard-to-count communities.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 30th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Immigration Crackdown With Firings, Not Raids

Leading experts, professionals and immigrants to discuss undocumented immigration at Connecticut College’s three-day conference

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 15th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

U.S. officials troubled by fake currency flowing from Peru – In the last year, agents have recovered about $8 million in fake notes across the U.S. and $18 million, as well as fake passports, in raids in Peru, authorities say.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 1st, 2009 :: 5 minute to empowerment

Drama About Immigration Raids and their Human Consequences in Arizona Is No Fiction for Many – The Tears of Lives, a play produced by Phoenix’s New Carpa Theater Company and written by James Garcia

Food and Commercial Workers Join Mexican Consul General to Launch Celebration of “Labor Rights Week” as Labor Day 2009 Approaches

Statement by LULAC National President Rosa Rosales on White House Meeting on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 14th, 2009

Children of Detained Immigrants Call for End to Raids in Arizona: Raid Today One of the Largest

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 6th, 2009 – The Sonia Edition

Latino Groups Criticize Obama On Immigration Raids

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 20th, 2009

A documentary by a Denver-based film company brings the now-fading raids at Swift & Co. back to the fore, delving into a spectrum of issues surrounding both the raid and the wider subject of immigration reform. – “Swift Justice”

Grupo Salinas, Fundacion Azteca America, Azteca America and ICFJ Discuss Challenges to Latino Community at National Press Club in Washington DC –Presentation of White Paper “The State of Latinos: Census 2010″ Highlights the Importance of Being Properly Counted

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 29th, 2009

The single biggest event that caused the real estate debacle was the nationwide increase in immigration raids by ICE Agents from the DHS – (interesting commentary)

Hispanic y Latino News :: June 19th, 2009

A national commission released a report today that says there was a “systematic abuse of worker rights” during the federal immigration raids that included the 2006 raid at the Swift meatpacking plant in Marshalltown and the 2008 raid Agriprocessors in Postville.

Hispanic y Latino News : June 18th, 2009

Immigrant Family Torn Apart in Arizona Raid – Sheriff Arpaio has arrested 248 immigrants in raids allegedly aimed at unlawful hiring, but no employer has been penalized.

8th Annual Conference Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors) 2009 Latinos in the Heartland St. Louis, Missouri May 18-20, 2009

ICE continues targeting Hawaii’s undocumented community with worksite and home raids

Rural Mexican villages dig moats to repel gangsters – Ditches don’t always deter raids, but federal troops can’t be spared – Cuauhtemoc

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is calling on the White House to end immigration raids that split up families. Cardinal Francis George

As the topic of immigration and workplace raids begins to heat up again in a new administration, a new study (from the right Center for Immigration Studies) finds that wages and employment grew for legal workers after a series of 2006 raids.

CIS Inadvertently Makes the Case for Legalizing Undocumented Workers

Movie Review: Crossing Over – Holy multicultural day, Batman! Immigration attorney Ashley Judd wears a necklace with a gold pendant of Africa. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Harrison Ford juggles the drama of his Iranian work partner (Cliff Curtis) with his penchant for helping the Mexicans he should just bust in undocumented-worker raids.

Activists Protest Immigration Raids In Phoenix – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched deputies into Hispanic communities in the Phoenix area.

National civil rights group brings international charges against U.S. for violating human rights of Latinos

News Summaries for Wednesday – December 10th, 2008 – includes Business & Entertainment

Advocates for immigrants in Miami demanded an investigation Tuesday into a series of federal raids last month that they said left at least six Guatemalan men bloodied and bruised in a roundup of nearly 100 people.

A senior Mexico City police commander who oversaw raids in the capital’s gang-filled Tepito neighborhood was slain in a drive-by shooting outside his home, officials said Tuesday.

News Summary for Monday – November 17th, 2008

Sixty-seven percent of the Latino vote should be enough to pay for a moratorium on immigration raids

News Summary – November 4th – 6th, 2008

Lawyers representing a group of immigrants facing deportation are aggressively challenging the tactics used by federal immigration agents in raids last summer in New Haven.

Blogante News Summary for October 21st-23rd, 2008

Federal immigration agents assisted by a Richmond police SWAT team launched one of several raids in the Bay Area early Wednesday, targeting members of the notorious MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, street gang, authorities have confirmed. – California

School of Social Work’s 10th Latino conference will be Oct. 10-11 in Des Moines – Grand View College

Blogante News Summary for Thursday – September 18th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Thursday – September 18th, 2008

More than four-in-five Hispanics (81%) say that immigration enforcement should be left mainly to the federal authorities rather than the local police; 76% disapprove of workplace raids; 73% disapprove of the criminal prosecution of undocumented immigrants who are working without authorization; and 70% disapprove of the criminal prosecution of employers who hire undocumented immigrants. A narrow majority (53%) disapproves of a requirement that employers check a federal database to verify the legal immigration status of all prospective hires.

Blogante News Summary for Monday – September 15th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Monday – September 15th, 2008

On the lookout for immigration raids – Activist networks have sprung up to prepare illegal immigrants for possible federal activity in their communities.

Immigration raids worry small towns

News Summary for Friday – September 5th, 2008

Federal immigration agents arrested a total of 23 people illegally working in the United States in several raids throughout the day on Wednesday. – Northern California

ACLU Investigating Largest Immigration Raid In The Country – Reports Of Government Discrimination And Secrecy Trigger Scrutiny – Mississippi

When Reality is Ignored by the Political Theorists : Mississippi Raids Ignored

DNC Hispanic Caucus : Loretta Sanchez Says She Knows Nothing About Miss. Raids (and calls me girl)

News Summary for Sunday – August 17th, 2008

New Essentials for Sunday – August 17, 2008

Immigration Is Snaring U.S. Citizens In Its Raids

Blogante News Summary for Thursday – August 7th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Thursday – August 7th, 2008

Illegal workers get help from fund – Group assists in posting bond for immigrants held in ICE raids – Houston

Blogante News Summary for Wednesday – August 6th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Wednesday – August 6th, 2008

Experts Slam Report by Anti-Immigration “Think-Tank” Claiming Undocumented Migrants Leaving Due to Raids – CIS known for twisting the facts to fit its agenda.

Iowa kosher meat plant Agriprocessors cited for violations of child labor laws – The Postville, Iowa, plant was the site of one of the largest immigration raids ever; 57 kids were involved.

Blogante News Summary for Monday – August 4th, 2008

Study finds 11% drop in illegal immigrants – Conservatives hail the report as proof Bush’s controversial policy of enforcement via workplace raids is working.

Hispanics profiling victims by Border Patrol in West Palm, group says

Blogante News Summary for July 28th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Monday – July 28th, 2008

Struggling to make sense of the developing patchwork of immigration law? Wondering how to do more than cover scattered enforcement actions and raids? Now is the time to dig more deeply into one of the most powerful stories in America, according to speakers at a day-long UNITY session on immigration last Wednesday. Apply context, the panelists urged, and move beyond stories of immigrant heroes and immigrant victims.

Nearly two weeks after federal agents arrested dozens of suspected illegal immigrants who clean the state’s courthouses, lawyers are still not sure where all of the detainees are being held. – Rhode Island

Discovery En Espanol To Air Pre-Olympic China Spectacular

In Immigration Cases, Employers Feel the Pressure – But Critics Fault Laws as Ineffective

More Illegal Immigrants Putting Affairs in Order – Deportation Risk Prompts Preparation

Blogante News for Thursday – June 26th, 2008

Citizens sue after detentions, immigration raids

Illegal immigrants indicted on fake document charges – Arizona

The Dragnet for “Fugitive Aliens”

Blogante News for Thursday – June 19th, 2008

Lawman’s raids on immigrants spark fury in Phoenix – Sheriff Joe Arpaio

DHS: Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Department of Commerce Secretary Gutierrez at the State of Immigration Address

Suspected Illegal Immigrants Deported Without Getting Their Day in Court – Due process is a vitally important tenet of liberal democracy.

Blogante News for Monday – June 9th, 2008

Federal contractors must ‘E-Verify’ employees’ eligibility to work

U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids – Federal agents say they try to act humanely when a parent is arrested, but advocates charge that youngsters are often traumatized and are sometimes left without supervision.

Blogante News for Monday – June 2nd, 2008

Bush administration steps up immigration raids – Election year aside, ICE vows to go full force

Latino agency develops position on immigration raids – Nevada

Weekly Review of Blogante News

Blogante News for Wednesday – May 28th, 2008

Geraldo Rivera: Secretary Chertoff, Call Off These Raids – Politics on The Huffington Post

SEIU Urged: End Attacks Against Puerto Rico Teachers

Blogante News for Tuesday – May 27th, 2008

In L.A., coping with the threat of deportation – Advocates are urging illegal immigrants to make plans for issues such as bail, lawyers and child caretakers.

Blogante News for Thursday – May 22nd, 2008

ACLU Demands Government Restore Basic Legal Protections To Meatpacking Workers Arrested In Iowa Raids

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