[nyfoil-l] May-June 2009 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly News Digest
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May-June 2009 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly News Digest
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!
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**May-June 2009 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Newsletter**
May Day 2009: Over Hundred Cities Across The U.S. with Hundreds of
Thousands of People March for Justice!
In This Issue:
1) May Day 2009
2) 4/10-12 NISN Nat’l Conf Report
3) Immigration Policy Update
4) Who's approving wiretap?
5) Anger at Obama Gitmo ruling
6) Troop deployment to border
7) 30 arrested in CD at ICE Hqts
8) Please Support NISN! Subscribe the Newsletter!
**Download the Newsletter:
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Newsletter/May-June09.pdf
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1) May Day 2009 National Immigrant Workers Mobilization
Over Hundred Cities Across The U.S. with Hundreds of Thousands of People
March for Justice!
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/MayDay2009/
WE ARE ALL HUMANS! NO ONE IS ILLEGAL! There’s at least hundred cities and
communities across the U.S. organized their May Day actions to support
workers rights and immigrant rights. Globally, there’s at least several hundred
cities had organized tens of millions of people for
march/protest/community events to celebrate the May Day 2009.
While the number of people participated in U.S. on May Day had been
declined due to weather, economic reason, factional fights in some cities had
created major confusion, and corporate America/government continue their
campaign to against celebrating the May Day and exploiting H1N1 Influenza A
virus (aka swine flu) “crisis” to scare people participating this year—
none-the-less, the numbers of people participated at May Day actions across the
global still stay very strong, and at some countries even grown bigger due to
the working class angry about the current economic crisis.
Download the PDF formatted Report:
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/MayDay2009Report/MayDay2009Report.pdf
Photos & Essay Reports from around the World
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/MayDay2009Report/index.html
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2) 4/10-12, 2009 Chicago, IL National Immigrant Solidarity Network
4th National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference
Successful Ending! Together We Build New Immigrant Workers Rights &
Justice Movements of 2009!
On April 10-12, 2009 on Chicago, IL; over 110 organizers, activists and
community members from African American, Native American, African immigrant,
European Immigrant, Asian American, Latino/Latina, Arab-Muslim-North
African, progressive labor, interfaith, LGBT, student, anti-war/peace and global
justice groups from across the country. To meet face-to-face at to discuss
how to build a new national, broad-based, immigrant rights/civil rights
movement, and to set our 2009-2010 national grassroots immigrant campaign
strategy.
We welcome our new steering committee member Alex Franco from Movement for
Unconditional Amnesty, Philadelphia, PA.
We acknowledges that different people from different organizations,
backgrounds have different believes on how to achieve the justice and better
future for the tens of millions of immigrants across the country, and how
immigrant rights movements can link to the broader peace and justice movements.
We had agreements, we have difference and even heated debates; after three
days conference, at Sunday April 12th based on the feedbacks and proposals
submitted to the conference, we had draft our new points of unity and
strategic immigrant campaign proposals.
Read the report:
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/2009Conference/confreport.htm
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****Special Reports***
The "Crimmigration" Crisis
Tom Barry- Border Lines 5/22/09
http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/crimmigration-crisis.html
In its study of the application of the “aggravated felony” provision in
immigration law, the Transactional Records Clearinghouse (TRAC) at the
University of Syracuse found that from 1992 to 2006 more than 300,000 immigrants
were removed using this provision and that the numbers steadily increased
annually over this period.[1]
Perhaps most striking about TRAC’s findings was that 55% of the aggravated
felony removals were by an ICE/INS administrative order rather than a
court order. In these administrative removals – amounting to nearly 23,000 in
2006 -- the deported immigrants did not have the benefit of any hearing or
adjudication of their removal orders. ICE agents alone were responsible, as
the TRAC study noted, for all steps in the process – from apprehension and
detention to issuing the order and deporting the individual. Administrative
orders for removal for immigrants charged with aggravated felonies have
steadily increased as a percentage of all such mandated deportations.
Criminal aliens that have been detained and removed under the aggravated
felony statutes are oftentimes longtime U.S. residents who have been in the
country since their childhood and don’t even know the language of their
birth countries. On the average, immigrants processed by EOIR from 1997 to
20006 for aggravated felonies were in the U.S. for fifteen years before they
were deported. For 25%, the average time between their original date of entry
to this country and when deportation proceedings were started in
immigration court was 20 years or longer, and for 10 percent it was more than 27
years.[2]
TRAC cited the case of Carlos Pacheco who entered the US with a green card
as a 6-year old child. He was judged an aggravated felon based on his
misdemeanor conviction for stealing some Tylenol and cigarettes. An appeals
court that heard the case agreed that he was an aggravated felon and removable
but expressed its “misgivings” that Congress equated misdemeanors with
felonies in its zeal to deport criminal aliens. Pacheco’s case is now one of
tens of thousands in which the immigration consequences were much more
severe than the criminal consequences.
Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the United States, a
March 2009 report by Amnesty International USA, observed: “Lawful permanent
residents can be placed in "mandatory detention" with no right to a bond
hearing before an immigration judge or judicial body. It is believed that
thousands of individuals are subject to mandatory detention every year. The
categories of crimes that trigger mandatory detention include minor, non-violent
crimes (such as receiving stolen property) committed years ago, and are
broad and difficult to define.”[3]
Read the rest of the report:
http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/crimmigration-crisis.html
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Enforcement-First Immigration Reform Stuck in First Step
Tom Barry - Border Lines 5/27/09
http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/enforcement-first-immigration-re
form.html
Since its creation in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Department of
Homeland Security has assiduously responded to the clamor of anti-immigrant
forces demanding that the federal government take more seriously its
responsibility to enforce immigration policy.
By the beginning of President Bush’s second term, the rising demands for
strict and nationwide enforcement of immigration laws coalesced around a new
political framing of tougher border control and immigration enforcement.
The new “enforcement-first” agenda was also a direct response by
conservatives and restrictionists to the congressional proposals for comprehensive
immigration reform. Conservatives increasingly argued that there could be no
comprehensive immigration reform that included legalization without first
securing the borders and enforcing immigration law in the country’s interior.
One of the first and clearest expressions of the “enforcement-first”
agenda that the Bush administration enthusiastically adopted came in a Jan. 19,
2006 letter to President Bush from prominent conservatives, including the
Republican leaders of the Senate and House. The public letter, titled “
First Things First on Immigration,” asserted that “border and interior
enforcement must be funded, operational, implemented, and proven successful — and
only then can we debate the status of current illegal immigrants, or the
need for new guest worker programs.”
Pointing the strengthening anti-immigrant voices in Congress, the letter
noted that “the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, Senator Rick Santorum said, ‘
We need a border-security bill first’” and that “Senator Vitter, Senator
Santorum, the majority of Senate Republicans, and the majority of House
Republicans are right in their position that “we need proven enforcement
before we do anything else.”
Read rest of the report:
http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/enforcement-first-immigration-reform.html
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DHS chief pressed on immigration and border security
Chris Strohm - Congress Daily
May 13, 2009
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=42723&dcn=e_hsw
Senate and House lawmakers pressed Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano Tuesday to explain the Obama administration's policies for enforcing
border security and immigration laws, indicating areas that Congress will
likely grapple with putting together the fiscal 2010 Homeland Security
budget.
In separate, back-to-back hearings, lawmakers expressed support for
President Obama's request, which would provide the department $42.7 billion in
discretionary funding next fiscal year.
But they questioned Napolitano on matters such as funding for border
security efforts, the department's priorities for targeting illegal immigrants
inside the country and whether federal contractors should be required to
verify the legal status of their workers.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joseph
Lieberman, I-Conn., and ranking member Susan Collins said they believe the
department will need more money for border security efforts.
"Critical resources are needed to supplement efforts already underway on
our Southwest border to combat drug, gun and cash smuggling by the drug
cartels in Mexico," Collins said.
Lieberman and Collins recently succeeded in amending the fiscal 2010
budget resolution to increase by $550 million funding for border protection
efforts by the Homeland Security and Justice departments.
Lieberman confirmed Tuesday he will ask Senate appropriators to add at
least $500 million to the proposed fiscal 2010 Homeland Security budget for
border security.
About $260 million of that funding would go toward hiring and training
1,600 Customs and Border Protection officers and 400 canine teams.
Read rest of the report:
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=42723&dcn=e_hsw
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Useful Immigrant Resources on Detention and Deportation
Face Sheet: Immigration Detention--Questions and Answers (Dec, 2008) by:
http://www.thepoliticsofimmigration.org
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/resource.htm
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