Illegal Aliens, Illegal Immigrants, and Illegal Bloggers (prernalal.com)

This one is simple. If you call people illegal, you are no progressive or liberal. We must redefine and recategorize you until you get all your documents in order.

Tags: illegal immigrants,white bloggers,no one is illegal,mainstream blogs,undocumented immigrants,discourse

Submitted about 1 month ago by MaverickLal101 | 0 Comments |

'Complimentarity' and 'Circularity:' Will New Buzzwords Fire Up the Immigration Debate in 2010? (www.alternet.org) TMC

If the immigration debate reaches the policy agenda this year, two new concepts may well dominate the discourse.

Tags: national debate,immigration,2010,complimentarity,circularity,workforce,tmc

Submitted about 1 month ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

Greyhound Lines Inc. Accused of Racial Profiling (www.alternet.org) TMC

Greyhound, which came under fire for anti-immigrant policies in 2005, is facing a new slew of charges.

Tags: greyhound lines,racial immigration,antiimmigrant policies,tmc

Submitted about 1 month ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

What San Francisco Chinatown Tourists Won’t See (www.racewire.org) TMC

Above the usual tourist-trekked main streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown are hundreds of SROs, or single room occupancies, that many Chinese families call home.

Tags: chinese,san fancisco,chinatown,tmc

Submitted about 1 month ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

Top 10 Immigrant Rights Victories of 2009 (immigration.change.org)

From the end of the widow penalty to deporting Lou Dobbs and undocumented youth halting deportations, see the list of Top 10 immigrant rights victories of 2009.

Tags: immigration,victories,undocumented

Submitted about 1 month ago by MaverickLal101 | 0 Comments |

"We Can Make Him Disappear": Immigration Officials Are Holding People In Secret, Unmarked Jails (www.alternet.org) TMC

In addition to publicly listed field offices and detention sites, ICE is holding prisoners in 186 unlisted, unmarked locations, many in suburban office parks or commercial spaces.

Tags: immigration,unmarked jails,commercial spaces,office parks,illegal,immigration and customes enforcement,ice,secret jails, TMC

Submitted about 1 month ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

CONSCRIPTION, the Republic, and America’s Future (www.veteranstoday.com)

"American people have only one part to play in the Nation's wars-that of spectator." Adrian Lewis is a professor of history at the University of Kansas.

Tags: army combat studies institute,conscription,the draft

Submitted about 1 month ago by indythinker | 0 Comments |

Emily Bazar and USA Today: What the Heck is an "Illegal Student?" (www.dreamactivist.org)

BEWARE: USA Today reporter, Emily Bazar thinks it is alright to call undocumented students “illegal students” because NumbersUSA has no problem with the phrase "illegal immigrants." What is an... More

Tags: immigration,illegal immigration undocumented immigrants,college,dream act,education,msm

Submitted about 1 month ago by MaverickLal101 | 0 Comments |

Why Serious Immigration Reform Is Inevitable (www.alternet.org)

Hot-button issues like health reform and economic recovery will come and go. That U.S. immigration policy is fundamentally broken guarantees its eventual place in the conversation.

Tags: immigration policy,immigration reform,enforcement economy,politics,obama,government

Submitted about 1 month ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's "Softer" Immigration Enforcement (www.alternet.org)

'Sanctions pretend to punish employers but in reality, they punish workers.'

Tags: obama,immigrantion,jobs,bills,american apparel

Submitted about 1 month ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

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