immigrant rights

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<p>It began as an ordinary academic presentation. Backed by a power-point, sociologist Alison Newby showed a crowd at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces how more than 400 public and privately-contracted immigrant detention facilities imprison more than 440,000 people,&nbsp; at a cost surpassing $1.7 billion annually to the taxpayers.</p>

<p><strong>Traducido por: Marvin F. Pineda y Xochitl Arellano</strong></p>
<p>California tiene una historia controversial en cuanto a inmigración. Inmigrantes Chinos en California, eran vistos como personas inferiores que no podían asimilarse a la sociedad californiana. Estos sentimientos de los críticos ocasionaron que el Congreso aprobara una serie de leyes incluyendo la ley de 1882 que suspendió la inmigración de trabajadores chinos por 10 años, Chinese Exclusion Act.</p>

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<p><em>— Gabe Gonzalez, Center for Community Change</em></p>

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>Prominent immigrant advocates launched their most sharply worded public critique yet of the Obama administration’s immigration policy.</p>
<p>Advocates who spoke at a press conference Monday in Washington, D.C. angrily pointed to statistics that showed a significant acceleration in immigration enforcement over President Bush’s last year, with over 387,000 immigrants deported since Obama’s inauguration.</p>

<p><strong>IExaminer</strong></p>
<p>On March 15, 2009, Alonso Chehade, an undocumented immigrant from Peru, was arrested at the US/Canada border for unlawful presence in the United States. After remaining in the detention center for two weeks, Chehade was later released with the assistance of his family, who posted a $7,500 bond to free him from prison.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;Let’s play a Lou Dobbs type of poll:</p>
<p>“Are you in favor of prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law any illegal alien who crosses the border even those who are entering for the first time and have no past criminal record?”</p>

<p><strong>California</strong><strong> Watch</strong></p>
<p>Sobriety checkpoints in California are increasingly turning into profitable operations for local police departments that are far more likely to seize cars from unlicensed motorists than catch drunken drivers.</p>

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<p>Immigrant Rights activist are currently participating in the fifth annual immigrant march, in the hopes of educating the public about the constant death of immigrants along the border and the urgent need for immigration reform.</p>

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<p>Grupos de defensa a los derechos de los migrantes, se encuentran realizando ya la quinta Marcha Migrante con la cual buscan llamar la atención pública hacia la muerte de migrantes en su intento de cruzar la frontera y la apremiante necesidad de una reforma migratoria justa y humana.</p>