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  • "Boycotting Arizona’s Racism." By Amy Goodman

    Arizona Senate Bill 1070 empowers state and local law enforcement to stop, question and arrest whoever they suspect may not be in the state legally. The law is an open invitation to sweeping racial profiling and arbitrary detention.
    Apr 29, 2010 | Columns & Articles
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    Immigration Advocates Rise Up in Anger over Arizona Law

    "Public furor is mounting across the nation over Arizona’s new 'show me your papers or go to jail' immigration law," writes Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez in his New York Daily News column. "Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder said he may step in to challenge the new law, which permits police to stop residents merely on the 'reasonable suspicion' that they are unlawfully in the country." [includes...
    Apr 28, 2010 | Story
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    John Ross on "El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City"

    Independent reporter, activist and poet John Ross has been covering social movements in Mexico and Latin America for nearly fifty years. He is the author of ten books; his latest is El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City. Ross moved to Mexico City in the aftermath of the massive 8.1-magnitude earthquake in 1985 and has lived there ever since. [includes rush transcript]
    Apr 27, 2010 | Story
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    Rep. Grijalva Calls for Federal Non-Cooperation with Controversial AZ Immigration Bill

    Outrage is growing over the passage of a controversial new measure in Arizona that forces police officers to determine the immigration status of someone they suspect of being an undocumented immigrant. We speak with Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), who is urging federal non-cooperation with the new law and is calling for a targeted economic boycott of Arizona. We also speak with Sunita Patel, an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which...
    Apr 27, 2010 | Story
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    Legal Defender Isabel Garcia: Arizona Bill Forcing Officers to Determine Immigration Status Marks "All-Out Assault" on Latino Communities

    Arizona lawmakers have approved what’s being described as the harshest anti-immigrant measure in the country, forcing police officers to determine the immigration status of someone they suspect of being an undocumented immigrant. Meanwhile, over fifty people were arrested Thursday in a federal immigration sweep targeting van operators allegedly involved in smuggling in undocumented migrants from Mexico. We speak to Isabel Garcia, co-chair of...
    Apr 16, 2010 | Story
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    Non-Citizen US War Vets Facing Deportation Despite Military Promises of Citizenship

    We take a look at the threat of deportation that non-citizen veterans of American wars continue to face despite US military promises of citizenship. We talk to Rohan Coombs, a Jamaican-born US vet who was in the US Marine Corps for six years and served in the Persian Gulf War. He spent eight months in prison for a marijuana-related conviction. The day he was to be released he was told he would be deported. He speaks to us from an immigration jail....
    Apr 05, 2010 | Story
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    Hundreds of Thousands Rally for Immigration Reform in Largest Rally of Obama Presidency

    Hundreds of thousands of people marched through the streets of Washington, DC on Sunday to call for immigration reform. Estimates of the crowd size ranged from 200,000 to 500,000. Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez, the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Immigration Task Force, emphasized the urgent need for Washington to act on comprehensive immigration reform. [includes rush transcript]
    Mar 24, 2010 | Story
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    Hundreds of Thousands Expected to Gather in DC for Immigration Rights March

    An immigrant rights march planned on Sunday is expected to draw over 100,000 people from a broad coalition of groups across the country to call on President Obama live up to his promises and Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. We speak with members of La Raza and Make the Road New York. [includes rush transcript]
    Mar 19, 2010 | Story
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    National Broadcast Exclusive...Almost Deported Before the Quake, Haitian New Yorker Jean Montrevil Speaks Out

    In a national broadcast exclusive, we speak with prominent Haitian community activist, Jean Montrevil. He’s just been released from jail after being held for three weeks by immigration authorities. His scheduled deportation was indefinitely put off after the earthquake in Haiti. We also speak with the Rev. Doctor Donna Schaper, as well as attorney Ira Kurzban. [includes rush transcript]
    Jan 26, 2010 | Story
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    ICE Officials Accused of Covering Up Immigrant Deaths in Detention

    The Obama administration has promised to overhaul immigration detention. But a scathing report in the New York Times last weekend reveals that federal officials used their role as overseers to prevent media from reporting deaths and abuses inside the nation’s immigration prisons. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, now admits 107 immigrants died in ICE custody since October 2003, but for years the deaths went uncounted in the public...
    Jan 13, 2010 | Story