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Hispanic y Latino News :: November 6th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Native American corporations, particularly an array of Alaska Native Corporations, have become major defense and homeland security contractors – responsible for a wide range of national security operations, including electronic surveillance on the border, running immigrant detention centers, and supplying security and other services in U.S. overseas wars and energy exploitation.

Coalition calls for public oversight in new San Bernardino 287(g) agreement

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: November 4th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Native Americans Profit from Abusive Immigrant Detention and Billions of Dollars in National Security Contracts

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 26th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Call for Investigation of Detention of Mexican Official Who U.S. Government Held as an Asylum-Seeker — But Who Never Asked for Asylum

Second Obama Immigration Detention Official Leaves Abruptly

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Immigrant Gulag Larger Than Homeland Security’s Detention Centers – The Obama administration is trying to wiggle its way out of the immigration crisis created by the Bush administration without taking any decisive steps to distance itself from its predecessor’s immigration policies and enforcement practices.

ACLU Comprehensive Immigration Reform Must Protect Privacy And Civil Liberties

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 7th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

New measures to improve detention policies of undocumented immigrants doesn’t go far enough

Salvaging Immigration Detention

Ideas for Immigrant Detention Include Converting Hotels and Building Models

ICE Should Terminate Maricopa County 287(g) Agreement – Scaling Back Sheriff Arpaio’s Immigration Enforcement Authority Does Not Go Far Enough, Says ACLU

DHS Plan To Improve Immigration Detention An Encouraging Step – Due Process, Enforceable Detention Standards And Overhaul Of ICE Enforcement Programs Still Needed

Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho to receive the University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal

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

Religious Leaders Face Deportation: Detention Reignites Churches’ Call for Immigration Reform

New Report Holds Immigration Detention System Up to the Light

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 10th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Report urges US immigration officials to keep better records on sprawling detention system

Time for Obama to break with current detention policy and enact one worthy of a world-class champion of democracy

Over 500 Organizations Demand White House End Flawed State And Local Immigration Enforcement Program – Federal 287(g) Program Results In Illegal Profiling And Threatens Public Safety, Say Groups

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 18th, 2009

DHS Announces 11 Previously Unreported Deaths In Immigration Detention

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

U.S. to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants – The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a “truly civil detention system.”

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 5th, 2009

NCLR Applauds Introduction of Legislation on Immigration Detention Standards

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 31st, 2009

Immigrant Detainee Rights Are Routinely, Systematically Violated, New Report by National Immigration Law Center Finds “A Broken System” is based on 18,000 pages of previously confidential ICE, ABA, and UNHCR reviews of detention centers

Routine traffic stop leads to detention of undocumented immigrant whose life has been a model of goodness – Fredy Avellaneda – Palm Beach County, Florida

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 24th, 2009

US: Immigration Policy Harms Women, Families – Briefing to Congress Details Inadequate Medical Care in Detention, Separation from Family

Hispanic y Latino News :: June 19th, 2009

Hundreds expected to march to T. Don Hutto on Sat., World Refugee Day, to demand an end to family detention

This June Discovery en Espanol Takes Viewers Deep into the High Risk Rescue Operation Known as Jaque – in ‘El rescate perfecto’

Hispanic y Latino News for Thursday June 4th, 2009

Migrant Detention Under The Obama Administration : Will RI4A Address This?

Hispanic y Latino News for Wednesday June 3rd, 2009

Suppressed news of hunger strike at immigrant detention facility flies in the face of Obama administration’s goal for transparency

MAYDAY 2009: List of Marches and Actions – Primero de Mayo 2009: Lista de Marchas y Acciones – (Many thanks to Aurora for compiling this list of 91 events in 26 states)

House Hearing Will Examine Illegal Profiling and Police Misconduct By Local Law Enforcement Acting As Federal Immigration Agents – U.S. Department Of Homeland Security Should Suspend Agreements With Local And State Law Enforcement, Says ACLU

Tens of Thousands Languish in Immigration Detention Without Hearings or Bond, Numbers Tripled Since 1996, Charges Amnesty International

260 immigrant detention facilities mimic Guantanamo Bay in denying basic legal rights and throwing away the key

Immigrant advocates blast medical care at detention facilities

Most Immigrants In Detention Did Not Have Criminal Record, Reports AP

Though majority of immigrant women in ICE detention are pregnant by rape, abortion is no option

News Summaries for February 1st, 2009

A Mexican journalist seeking asylum in the United States after a series of stories about alleged Mexican military abuses of civilians has been released from an immigration jail after 7 months’ detention. Emilio Gutierrez Soto, had been jailed since June 2008, when he and his 15-year-old son crossed the U.S. border

News Summary – January 23rd-26th, 2009

Some 300 women held at immigration detention centers in Arizona face dangerous delays in health care and widespread mistreatment, according to a new study by the University of Arizona, the latest report to criticize conditions at such centers throughout the United States.

News Summary for December 23rd – 28th, 2008

City of Immigrants Fills Jail Cells With Its Own – Central Falls, Rhode Island (a mostly Latino community) :: look into the fastest-growing, least-examined type of incarceration in America, an industry that detains half a million people a year, up from a few thousand just 15 years ago. The system operates without the rules that protect criminal suspects, and has grown up with little oversight, often in the backyards of communities desperate for any source of money and work. – In a sinking economy, immigration detention is a rare growth industry. – (A MUST READ)

Lawsuit Challenging Denial Of Bail Rights For Immigrants Can Continue, Says Federal Court – Class Action Status Granted For Plaintiffs

ACLU report blasts violations of basic rights for hundreds of immigrants detained in Massachusetts – First-of-its-kind study details poor jail conditions, denial of medical care and violations of due process against immigrants held for months without being accused of a crime

News Summary for Tuesday – December 2nd, 2008

Sides get set to lobby Barack Obama for immigration policy changes Some activists oppose detentions and deportations; others seek hiring restrictions and border control

‘Kids in Need of Defense’ (KIND) Launched by Microsoft, Angelina Jolie, Major Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments – New Children’s Advocacy Organization to Provide Legal Assistance for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in U.S.

Blogante News Summary for Wednesday – September 10th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Wednesday – September 10th, 2008

Mexican journalist languishes in Texas detention – Emilio Gutiérrez Soto

ACLU Urges House Judiciary Committee to Support Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008 – Legislation is first congressional action to provide basic medical care of immigration detainees

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

Justice Inspector General Report Finds Immigration Judges Were Illegally Hired

Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – July 29th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Tuesday – July 29th, 200

New video unmasks the “Hidden System” of federal deportations and detentions

New Book Recounts How Cuban Refugee Who Escaped Castro’s Prison Camps Now Helps Thousands of Other Refugees Find Freedom at the Mexican Border

Blogante News Summary – Wednesday – July 16th, 2008

Blogante Essentials – Wednesday – July 16th, 2008

Interview on Latino Fiction(s): McCain, Obama and “Latino Vote” Construct « Of América

CAUSA: Immigration Detention Worse than Prison at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington

Law Students Rush to Meet Needs In Booming Field of Immigration

E.U. Moves to Standardize Immigrant Policy

Blogante News for Thursday – June 26th, 2008

Citizens sue after detentions, immigration raids

Why former Mexican migrants are staying home – Tougher border enforcement, jail time, and a slow US economy are causing some Mexicans to reconsider going north for work.

U.S. needs a productive solution to the problem of those who entered country clandestinely

Blogante News for Thursday – June 19th, 2008

The Guantanamization of Immigrant Detention « Of América

European Union votes to unify rules on detention of migrants

Cuban immigrants reach Texas after being snatched by gunmen in Mexico

Blogante News for Tuesday – June 17th, 2008

Guest Voz: Sen. Bob Menendez announces legislation to prevent government detention of legal citizens caught in immigration sweeps (Latina Lista)

Humanitarian legislation to keep federally detained undocumented immigrants safe before Senate. (Latina Lista)

Blogante News for Tuesday – June 3rd, 2008

Aurora OKs bigger immigration detention center – The move effectively clears the way for GEO Group Inc. to turn a 400-bed facility into a 1,500-bed center to house illegal immigrants, making it the second-largest detention center in the nation. – Colorado

The government’s immigration enforcers run amok.

Weekly Review of Blogante News

Blogante News for Thursday – May 29th, 2008

US system of deportation inhumane – Immigrant rights under threat by poor detention and deportation procedures

Blogante News for Tuesday – May 27th, 2008

Inside Immigrant Detention Centers : Daily Abuses Include No Feminine Hygiene Products for Women Detainees » VivirLatino

Department of Homeland Security Will Face Questions on Care of Detained Immigrants

Update: Latino community still under siege in Postville and Waterloo, Iowa (Latina Lista)

National Council of La Raza President Calls For Smart, Humane, and Effective Enforcement of Immigration and Labor Laws

Blogante News for Wednesday – May 14th, 2008

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