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October 20, 2007
From CommonDreams.org
'We didn't want to get stuck with a lemon." That's what Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said to a House committee last month. He was referring to the "virtual fence" planned for the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada. If the entire project goes as badly as the 28-mile prototype, it could turn out to be one of the most expensive lemons in history, projected to cost $8 billion by 2011.
Boeing, the company that landed the contract - the largest ever awarded by the Department of Homeland Security - announced this week that it will Read more
'We didn't want to get stuck with a lemon." That's what Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said to a House committee last month. He was referring to the "virtual fence" planned for the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada. If the entire project goes as badly as the 28-mile prototype, it could turn out to be one of the most expensive lemons in history, projected to cost $8 billion by 2011.
Boeing, the company that landed the contract - the largest ever awarded by the Department of Homeland Security - announced this week that it will Read more
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June 12, 2007
If anyone doubts that bigotry is enjoying a Great Revival of its own in the United States, the spectacle of the past week's "crass roots" banding up across the land to defeat what they called a "shamnesty" immigration bill in the U.S. Senate should kill those doubts. The bill was enormously problematic - except for the winding road to citizenship it gave some of the country's 12 million undocumented immigrants. And that's what killed it. The defeat is attributable to one thing: Americans don't want more Mexicans and other brown-skinned people here."These people came in the wrong way, so they Read more
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June 11, 2007
The following remarks were offered at a Democracy for America gathering in Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday morning, June 9th, 2007:
It is normally expected that, when given an opportunity to speak, I will talk about campaign finance reform and, more specifically, about how the public financing of campaigns can cut the threads of the big- money puppet show.
But today I would like to talk about unauthorized immigration, which has nothing to do with the big money corruption of our political system, except for everything.
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It is normally expected that, when given an opportunity to speak, I will talk about campaign finance reform and, more specifically, about how the public financing of campaigns can cut the threads of the big- money puppet show.
But today I would like to talk about unauthorized immigration, which has nothing to do with the big money corruption of our political system, except for everything.
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June 4, 2007
For all the talk about immigration reform on the Hill, there has been notably little discussion about what is driving Mexican immigrants to pour over the border into the U.S., let alone any debate about measures that might go to the root of the problem. According to Laura Carlsen, the director of the International Relations Center's Americas Program, the reason behind the "massive out-migration" is fairly clear. Put simply, she wrote not long ago, "Mexico is not producing enough decent jobs for its people-and the United States is hiring." It would seem, then, that one potential answer to the Read more
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May 26, 2007
Attention Immigrants: Thanks for Your Hard Work. Now Leave. What Could Be Better For Business Than A Workforce That Toils For Next To Nothing, Drives Down Wages For Everyone Else, Can't Protest or Unionize, Then Goes Away When You're Done With Them? Your Guide To The Guest Worker Program.
Key to the Bush administration's approach to immigration reform is the controversial guest worker program, which preserves the flow of cheap, low-skilled labor to American businesses while limiting the potential costs to employers and taxpayers. Under the program, there will be no children to Read more
Key to the Bush administration's approach to immigration reform is the controversial guest worker program, which preserves the flow of cheap, low-skilled labor to American businesses while limiting the potential costs to employers and taxpayers. Under the program, there will be no children to Read more
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May 3, 2007
* May Day 2007: Hundreds of Thousands March for Immigrant Rights *
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants took to the streets on Tuesday in
protests in dozens of cities across the country. Calls focused on demanding
a path to citizenship for undocumented workers, ending immigrant raids and
deportations and rejecting anti-immigrant legislation. We speak with
organizers of the day's two largest protests: Los Angeles and Chicago.
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Hundreds of thousands of immigrants took to the streets on Tuesday in
protests in dozens of cities across the country. Calls focused on demanding
a path to citizenship for undocumented workers, ending immigrant raids and
deportations and rejecting anti-immigrant legislation. We speak with
organizers of the day's two largest protests: Los Angeles and Chicago.
Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow. Read more
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September 25, 2014
Families are still scrambling to get information about their loved ones a week after U.S. immigration agents arrested over 1,000 workers at meatpacking plants in six states in a massive operation targeting people working with false documents.
"A lot of people still don't know where they are," Olivia Figueroa, who runs a small grocery store in Worthington, Minnesota, told IPS. Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a hotline for family members to inquire about detainees, Figueroa said the information given is often contradictory.
Figueroa's husband works Read more
"A lot of people still don't know where they are," Olivia Figueroa, who runs a small grocery store in Worthington, Minnesota, told IPS. Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a hotline for family members to inquire about detainees, Figueroa said the information given is often contradictory.
Figueroa's husband works Read more
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March 29, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO - The past three weeks' nationwide protests against proposed immigration reforms considered anti-immigrant mark the rise of a new American civil rights movement, say protest groups. Protesters' ultimate impact on the immigration debate remains to be seen. Mass protests leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq failed to dissuade legislators from giving President George W. Bush authority to take the nation to war, after all. Even so, protest organizers said their efforts played a large part in persuading the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve a more immigrant-friendly bill Read more
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March 27, 2006
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to demonstrate against a new anti-immigrant bill being considered by Congress. Crowd estimates range from 500,000 to 2 million. We speak with longtime immigrant rights activist Javier Rodriguez and United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta. [includes rush transcript]
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to demonstrate against a new anti-immigrant bill being considered by Congress. Stretching for 26 blocks, the Read more
for Immigration Reform