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Marketing, Eliminationism, and Coded Language 2007-06-27 17:24:58 If you’ve spent any time surfing the Internet, you’ve seen more than your fair share of banner ads. The advertisement that is constructed from an image that appears all over the net and varies considerably in appearance and subject matter. Banner ads are usually relatively simple pieces of hypertext link code, instructs a Web server to bring up a particular Web page when you click on a certain piece of text or image. Their presence on the Web and their importance in Internet-based business is immense.
There seems to be an offensive ad running loose around the net called “Shoot The Rapper!” The advertisement features an animated rapper that resembles 50 Cent and a photographer whose camera you have to position to “shoot the rapper.” If you can, “You will win $5000 or 5 ringtones guaranteed.”
Actually, this is not the first time this has appeared. During the horrific events at Virginia Tech earlier this year, the ad was frequently spotted on MySpa Read more:Marketing
Blogs That Make Me Think: The Thinking Blogger Award 2007-06-26 23:03:18 Well, as I was browsing through Technorati because I was beginning to notice that my incoming links from Technorati was not updating properly on my Wordpress dashboard. To be honest, I often find more blogs linking to me by searching xicanopwr.com on Google. What I also end up finding out, there are people who actually cite me but, yet I still don’t get notified. So the only way I ever find out who has cited is several months after the fact when I decided to do a Google either XicanoPwr or this blog. And even then, I usually do it when I notice somebody is doing a search on me or my site when I check my stats. First of all, I would thank my family, friends, bloggers and all those who are reading this post right now. Thank you for your continued friendship, readership and participation in the posts. My apologies to anybody I haven’t personally thanked for citing me, I am truly honored, thank you.
That being said, I am always taken aback whenever I get nominated for somethin Read more:Blogs
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This is Truly Messed Up: Former Councilwoman Faces Deportation 2007-06-25 23:57:53 Zoila Meyer who came here when she was 1 just found out she is only a “legal resident” but not a citizen. When her parents brought her with them from Cuba they always told her she was a U.S. citizen. Some would say she has been living the American dream; marrying her high school sweetheart, raising their four children, working on a college education and, in fact, she was serving as city councilwoman for the City Council of Adelanto, a town in Southern California. It was not until the Gestapo decided to turn her dream into a nightmare. Meyer is now facing charges for illegally voting in the 2004 elections and is now facing deportation. She is a mother of four it looks like she now stay at one of America’s concentration camp.
Tuesday’s arrest stems from the 2004 election.
Meyer ran for - and won - a seat for Adelanto City Council where she served for 10 weeks before resigning after a family member raised questions regarding her legal status.
While it is not illeg Read more:Former
Soldier Side 2007-06-24 17:38:37 I have been thinking a lot about those men and women who are serving in our armed forces, especially those who get slapped with reality because they thought were there “make a difference” but in reality they are turned into killing machines and are asked to kill and/or torture innocent people. The ones who left and come back to families who cannot even recognize them anymore. The ones where we read in the paper where there friends say, “He would never do something like that.” As the institution continuously orders the men and women who are charged in protecting us to conduct a series of unspeakable and unpardonable events, sadly, in the end, they become the “that” we abhor.
As ex-Marine Martin Smith wrote recently in Counterpunch: “It speaks volumes that in order for young working-class men and women to gain self-confidence or self-worth, they seek to join an institution that trains them how to destroy, maim, and kill. The desire to become a M
The Immigration Bill is Defeated Again 2007-06-28 14:09:11 Blow to Bush as immigration bill crashes down
Agence France Presse
In a stunning defeat for the bid to grant a path to citizenship for 12 million illegal immigrants, Senators voted 53 to 46 against keeping the bill alive, likely ending congressional action on the divisive issue before 2009.
Bipartisan backers of the measure fell well short of the 60 vote super-majority needed to move the bill, branded by opponents as an “amnesty,” towards a final vote, after an emotional weeks-long debate.
From the New York Times
The debate just before the vote today was intense, even personal.
“We know what they’re against - we don’t know what they’re for,” Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said of the bill’s opponents. Perhaps, Mr. Kennedy suggested, the bill’s opponents envision some kind of “gestapo” to round up illegal immigrants. “That’s their alternative?” Mr. Kennedy shouted. “That Read more:Again
The Chicano Survivor of The Hate Crime Beating Takes His Own Life 2007-07-05 14:56:17 If you recall, David Ritcheson was the Latino teen, who was brutally beat, tortured, and sodomized with a plastic pole by two white racist teenagers, David Henry Tuck and Keith Robert Turner. This all occurred one year ago and sadly, David could no longer conceal his pain because on the morning of July 1, he leaped to his death by jumping off from an upper deck of a Carnival Cruise ship (h/t anna at Sepia Mutiny and Stace at Dos Centavos).
We really were not told much about him by the media except that he was a Mexican-American, who was running back on the Klein Collins High School football team and was the homecoming prince as a freshman. Most notably people remember him as the victim of a hate crime that took place on April 22, 2006 at the home of Gus Sons that was triggered by an accusation that David tried to kiss Danielle Sons, Gus’ the underage sister. What we have been told through various media outlets is that David was stomped and burned with cigarettes, and his attacker
The Natives Are Restless: Another Attack on Mexico’s Natural Gas Pipeline 2007-07-11 22:35:33 The Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) is claiming responsibility for another series of explosions that went off today on Mexico
’s natural gas pipeline. This time around the attack caused national and international corporations were shut down in Mexico and many of these corporations will be facing millions of dollars in losses, according to CNNMoney.
Vitro SAB, a Mexican company that makes glass containers, said the shutdown of two plants would cost it about $800,000 a day. Vitro said in a statement that it was increasing production at other plants in Mexico to minimize effects on customers.
It is being reported that Honda Motor Co, Kellogg Co’s, The Hershey Co, Nissan Motor Co, and Grupo Modelo SA were forced to suspend or scale back operations because of the lack of natural gas. Service was suspended on the 36-inch (91-centimeter) pipeline that runs between Mexico City and the industry-rich city of Guadalajara, capital of the western state of Jalisco. Service are also su Read more:Natives
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Rest in Peace Lady Bird Johnson 2007-07-11 18:53:34 Lady Bird Johnson
, the widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson, died this afternoon at her home in Austin, Tex. She was 94. According to the New York Times, Mrs. Johnson died of natural causes, surrounded by family and friends. In 2002, she was hospitalized with a stroke that left her with difficulty speaking. But even after that she continued to make public appearances and in May attended an event at the LBJ Library and Museum featuring historian Robert Dallek.
Mrs. Johnson was known for her love of the environment, as first lady, she started a capital beautification project (Society for a More Beautiful National Capital) to improve the physical conditions in Washington, DC. She was also instrumental in promoting the Highway Beautification Act, which sought to beautify the nation’s highway system by limiting billboards and by planting flowers and trees along the highway.
I remember seeing Mrs. Johnson speak when I attended the University of Texas at Austin. It was at the Liz Carpe Read more:Peace
The Natives Are Getting Restless Down In Mexico 2007-07-10 21:10:51 A Mexican leftist group, El Ejército Popular Revolucionario (EPR - Popular Revolutionary Army), is claiming responsibility for for a series of explosions that occurred this week and last week on Mexico
’s owned natural-gas pipelines, PEMEX, according to La Jornada. Pemex is the third-largest oil supplier to the US.
EPR issued a statement to the national and international mass media and to those who are fighting for human rights.
A QUIEN CORRESPONDA
PRESENTE
Por medio de la presente hacemos llegar a los medios de comunicación y a nuestro pueblo el primer comunicado de nuestro partido en el estado de Guanajuato, en donde se expone nuestra posición política sobre las explosiones en los ductos de PEMEX.
De antemano agradecemos la atención prestada para con nosotros y nos despedimos cordialmente.
AL PUEBLO DE MEXICO
AL PUEBLO DE GUANAJUATO
A LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN NACIONALES E INTERNACIONALES
A LOS ORGANISMOS NO GUBERNAMENTALES DEFENSORES DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS
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America’s Moral Panic 2007-07-09 13:32:04 The recent defeat of the immigration bill has a lot xenophobic nativists celebrating. Sadly, the bipartisan immigration bill caused a split among Latino leaders. Some Latino leaders called the legislation a “step backward” because of the provisions that would limit judicial review of legalization cases and make it extremely expensive to become a legal resident. While other Latino leaders endorse the proposed bill, and were disturbed when the legislation died last month.
All parties agree that immigration reform is badly needed, but differ on how to achieve it. In order to fix it, we must examine the source of the problem - globalization. With economic globalization, international labor migration is promoted as a way to minimize labor costs in order to increase profits. Although this is not new, it must be noted that the tactics used to undermine domestic labor to maintain these inequities have increased over the past few years. On this blog, I have mostly discussed only a s Read more:America
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Another Hate Crime Beating 2007-07-15 22:38:30 In United States, we are often told if we work hard enough, the sky’s the limit in the “Land of the Free.” The only problem, nobody ever told us about the fine print, only certain types of people are equal. What was written in Declaration of Independence, “All men are created equal,” is far from the truth and history has the scares to prove it.
Last week, another person, a Fijian immigrant, fell victim to hate and intolerance that continues to grow in this country. To a fellow blogger, this hate crime hit closer to home.
One of my sister’s co-workers, Satendar Singh, was killed in a hate crime attack last week at Lake Natomas. He was at a party with some friends and family when a group from a Russian church started calling him racist and homophobic names, harassing him and his whole party for most of the day.
As his party started to leave, a group of them cornered him and they got into a physical fight. One of them shoved Satendar and he fell and cr
CNN Admits to Manufacturing News Against Michael Moore 2007-07-18 12:14:51 Last week, CNN
accused MichaelMoore
of fudging the facts and cherry-picking numbers from different academic studies to make his arguments stronger. On CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Wolf Blitzer (video) aired Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s senior health correspondent, “fact check” report that attempted to verify the facts Michael Moore’s 2007 film ‘SiCKO.’
Moore was furious over Gupta’s report, the interview ended up becoming a heated debate, which forced Wolf Blitzer again (video) to continue his interview the next day. However, the war of words between CNN and Moore did not end there, the debate continued on “Larry King Live” (VIDEOS: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3). complex citations for each of the assertions made in his movie,
During that week, Moore used his website to addressed each assertion made by Gutpa by posting citing the sources he used to make his movie, plus a line-by-line rebuttal of each of the “correcti Read more:Manufacturing
Rain, rain, go away 2007-07-20 17:27:55 This morning, I woke up energized and ready to do some protesting since I had planned on going to the protest of Corrections Corporation of America in Austin, TX today. Somehow, today was not meant to be. When I woke up this morning, I woke up to heavy showers and thunderstorms. This has been going for a month and a half now and I wish it would stop.
When the rain finally stopped, I figured I still can make to Austin. If there is no traffic, it can take roughly 2 1/2 hours. Well, the storm may have stopped here in Houston, but not west of Houston so in the end I was forced to turn back around because one, the rain came down hard where I could not see, which tends to bring flashbacks of a near death accident I had on the highway few years back; and two, I heard it was worse on my way Austin. Sigh, such is life I guess, but I guess the bright side, I get to live to fight another day.
Here are some photos of what it is like for the past month:
I am hoping that tomorrow will be a bett
Our Moral Duty for Supporting The “Hate Crimes” Bill 2007-07-20 09:14:42 As Americans, we extol the virtues of freedom and rail against oppression. I feel it is important that we address the reason why the proposed expansion of the hate crimes bill should be passed and signed by President Bush. I do feel it is our moral duty to support it because the Christian fundamentalist have infiltrated and influenced the pillars of power that governs America. It is not a secret that James Dodson are strongly opposed to the “hate crimes” bill. It is extremely important to point the message James Dobson is telling his listeners about the bill. In a radio message on his Focus on the Family radio program, he told his listeners that real purpose was “to muzzle people of faith who dare to express their moral and biblical concerns about homosexuality.”
Although many see this an innocent statement of his views, Dr. James Dodson has the ear of the president and he is providing more than spiritual guidance. He also has provided advice on policy matter to Read more:Moral
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Photos From the Hutto Vigil XI 2007-07-22 17:48:20 I finally made up Hutto, I am currently doing a write up on my visit but here are some of the pictures I took, I have plenty more and with some video footage. I will be posting those shortly.
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Don Hutto Vigil Report 2007-07-23 22:44:42 We are able to identify changes in one’s own personal life by associating them to certain events that we either experienced or witnessed personally. We do this as a way to expand our sense of purpose and transcend our ordinary lives, consequently questioning and integrating beliefs and values with actions. This past weekend is one of those events. I’m speaking most directly to my recent visit to the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, TX.
Williamson County’s Hutto Residential Center is a former high-security state prison that was converted into a detention center that is authorized to hold non-Mexican immigrant families and children on noncriminal charges. Its purpose is to hold immigrant families while their applications for asylum are being considered. It began operating in the summer of 2006 and currently holds 375 detainees, approximately 200 of which are children. Detainees are a diverse group, including single men with children, pregnant women, infants, a Read more:Vigil
One More Thing Texas Can Be Embarrassed About, No.1 in Teen Birth Rate 2007-07-27 10:42:14 It has been well documented that being a parent as an adolescent can have a long lasting effect on families and on the mother and her child. These consequences comprise of poverty and other adverse socioeconomic circumstances, such as poor health, physical abuse, neglect, prison and the continuation of the teen pregnancy cycle. In fact, this is one area I know very well in both a professional and personal level. As a macro level social worker, I saw the different types of programs that semi-worked and ones that didn’t; and on a personal level this issue hits home.
In this country, the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any industrialized world; and in Texas
the state has the highest teen pregnancy rates (63 births per 1,000 females ages 15-19) in the nation, according to a newly released study of children’s health, according to a recent research report, KIDS COUNT Data Book, issued by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Way to go Texas, we not only lead the nation Read more:Thing
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A Happy Reunion For This Immigrant Family 2007-07-30 00:02:52 Over the weekend, I received an email from Jay Johnson-Castro about a family that was separated at the border by our immigration rules had a happy ending as they finally reunited in South Florida last Friday (video). Abel Gómez showed up one day last month at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing in Texas certain that immigration authorities would let him in, along with his wife and two children. As a Cuban refugee, Gómez, was paroled into the US under the wet foot/dry foot policy. But his wife Ocdalis and children - 2-year-old Abel and 6-year-old Winnelis - are Venezuelan. Border Patrol immediately detained them and took them to the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, TX.
The current state of the immigration debate in the US has affected the we handle immigrant families. Unfortunately, understandable concerns over national security have resulted in increasingly restrictive immigration policies that have led to an increase in immigration detention like the Gómezs. According to Wome Read more:Happy
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Possibly the most important post ever 2007-08-01 20:40:24 Thank you sharing this Warrior~aka~annie
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U.S. Rewards U.S. Serviceman with One Way Ticket to Trinidad 2007-08-01 16:32:23 Anslem Ifill, an immigrant from Trinidad
, is Gulf War veteran who severed in the United States Army during the first Gulf War. He is now facing deportation. According to Breakthrough, Ifill, a green card holder, has lived in the United States for 25 years with eight of those years in our military. Anslem, is now being deported to Trinidad
For veterans who escape physical injury, however, there is the mental stress caused by combat. Like so many veterans returning home from combat duty, Anslem Ifill returned home with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, according to Caribbean American News [pdf see page 6]. What was once called “shell shock” or “combat fatigue,” PTSD displays symptoms that include flashbacks, nightmares, panic attacks, feelings of detachment, irritability, trouble concentrating, emotional outbursts and sleeplessness. The National Center for PTSD states that PTSD is a highly prevalent lifetime disorder.
Its social and economic costs can be dev Read more:Rewards
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Save a Criminal, Deport the Victim: Georgia’s New Immigration [Mis]Direction 2007-07-31 11:13:02 It looks like Georgia
is willing to allow people to get away with attacking immigrants. Recently, the Los Angles Times reported on a Latina who was attacked by her roommates. She called the police pleading for her life as they were punching and hitting her in the stomach; however, when the police arrived at the scene, they arrested her and she is now in an Alabama cell awaiting deportation (via RaceWire).
Emelina Ramirez called police to tell them her roommates were attacking her, punching and kicking her in the stomach. When the police arrived, they handcuffed her, took her to jail and ran her fingerprints through a federal database. She is now in an Alabama cell awaiting deportation.
Sadly, the LA Times did not report the whole story. According to local CBS affiliate, Atlanta WGCL CBS 46 (video), Emelina Ramirez Bojorquez is the pregnant mother of two beautiful young girls, Wendy - age 8, and Karla - age 3. While her attackers were punching and hitting her in the stomach, she aske Read more:Criminal
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Deadly Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis 2007-08-02 12:54:40 Minneapolis major interstate bridge, Interstate 35W, was jammed with rush-hour traffic when it suddenly broke into huge sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River yesterday. Authorities lowered the death toll from an interstate bridge collapse to four.
Officials have said that the eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, was in the midst of being repaired and two lanes in each direction were closed when the bridge buckled. It is being reported that the center section of the bridge dropped straight down and pancaked in the middle of the river, leaving several vehicles stranded on a broken island of wreckage. As divers plumbed the waters, other rescuers searched frantically for victims amid broken, zigzagged sections of blacktop. Some of the injured were carried up the riverbanks.
Minneapolis police chief Tim Dolan told reporters they are expecting the death toll might climb because some people were still trapped inside the vehicles that were hurled into the Read more:Minneapolis
Is ICE Denying Health Care to Immigrant Detainees 2007-08-09 16:30:45 Kyle from Immigration Orange just informed me that on Tuesday August 7th, 2007, Edimar Alves Araujo, a 34 year-old immigrant a Brazilian national, died in federal custody because he was denied access to his medication for his epilepsy. His sister, Irene Araujo, told the Boston Herald his death could have been prevented if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers his medication were not with held from him. On Tuesday, she went to the Woonsocket Police station twice to let police know Araujo suffered from epilepsy and needed to take phenobarbital, an anti-epileptic drug, in the event of a seizure.
Araujo said police refused to take it, saying her brother could tell them if he needed medication. She said a friend tried again to bring the medication to him Wednesday morning, but learned her brother had died.
Paula Grenier, a spokesman for the ICE Boston office, said that less than an hour after he was transferred to the custody of ICE, Araujo was rushed to the Rhode Island Hosp Read more:Denying
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Houston Processing Center: The U.S. Ministry of Freedom 2007-08-08 15:55:57 This past weekend I attended another demonstration against this country’s use of the privatized prison complex to detain undocumented immigrants. The protest was the third protest sponsored by Houston
Sin Fronteras, which took place outside the Corrections Corporation of America’s (CCA) Houston ProcessingCenter
. During the protest, I could not help but think how George Orwell would be turning over in his grave because the Houston Processing Center illuminates some of the Orwellian aspects of immigration controls.
Sixty years ago, George Orwell, wrote about the dangers of modern societies’ quest for a utopian society in his prophetic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. His totalitarian world of Oceania drew a striking resemblance to his world of 1948 and ours and the irony of the Houston Processing Center. In one passage, Orwell writes:
“… in the general hardening of outlook that set in … practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundred Read more:Ministry
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Inactive Hurricane Season Has Now Become Active 2007-08-15 18:01:57 What started off as an inactive Hurricane season is not looking to be an active one this month. There are two Tropical Storm Erin which is approaching South Texas and another tropical system that may intensify into a strong Hurricane.
Tropical Storm Erin, which formed in the western Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday, was moving in a northwesterly direction and expected to make landfall in South Texas tomorrow, Thursday. It is about 210 miles south of Galveston, so, I will be OK. All I will be getting is the rain. The problem with Tropical Storm Erin it will bring heavy rains to South Texas, something that is not needed in that region. So there are is a very good chance flooding might occur in South Texas. So to my readers in South Texas, please that care and if you are not aware of you need to be doing over, the City of Corpus Christi has already issued a boil water advisory for all areas of the city as a precautionary measure until further notice. Citizens can receive on-going informati Read more:Season
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Rooftop Films Presents: “CIELO ABIERTO: Morelia Film Festival” in East Harlem 2007-08-15 11:40:21 I just receive this email regarding an upcoming event in East Harlem
that I would like share with you.
My name is Nina Cruz and I work with RooftopFilms
, a summer film series dedicated to showing new, independent films in unique outdoor locations, and I thought you or your readers might be interested in one of our upcoming programs.
This Friday, August 17 we will be presenting “CIELO ABIERTO: Films from the Morelia International Film Festival
” outdoors on the roof and in the courtyard of El Museo Del Barrio in East Harlem. We will present selections from the Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico’s premiere showcase for new and emerging Mexican filmmaking talent. A couple of the films deal with political material, including the Aguas Blancas Slaughter.
The show is free and begins at 9:00. The doors open at 8 with music by Rana Santacruz beginning at 8:30.
For more information on this show visit their website.
Here is are the films that will be showing at the M Read more:Presents
A Dramatic Increase in Anti-Immigration State Laws 2007-08-14 16:00:18 La Opinión, a Spanish-language newspaper, recently reported that state legislatures considered nearly three times the number of immigration-related bills than this time last year. In April, state legislators in all of the 50 states had introduced at least 1169 bills and resolutions addressing immigration or immigrant-related issues. As of now, there is a total of 1,404 immigration-related laws proposed. The good news is only 170 were passed in 41 states, however, the bad news, this is is more than twice the total number of bills considered during 2006.
National Conference of State
Legislatures President and Texas state Senator Leticia Van de Putte stated that the main reason for the increase has to do with Congress’s failure to approve comprehensive immigration reform. State Senator Van de Putte said:
“Como el barco federal se hundió, hay 50 botes salvavidas en el agua buscando una solución. Una vez más, los estados toman la iniciativa en uno de los asuntos de polític
Modern Day Jim Crow Injustice 2007-08-13 13:11:12 One of the problems being a blogger during a time when much of humanity finds itself in a living hell and democracy here in the US is crumbing faster right before our very eyes, it becomes very difficult exposing everything that that is going on, such as completing a post on the situation down in Jena, Louisiana - a small southern town that reveals this country’s history of slavery, Jim Crow law, and lynch mobs. The case is better know as the Jena 6 - Robert Bailey Jr., Mychal Bell, Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis, Theo Shaw and an unnamed juvenile.
A brief background of the event for those who are unaware what is happening in Jena. This event started on a late summer day in 2006, in Jena, LA, when several African American high school students, at a school assembly, had decided to challenge an unspoken rule by asking the school’s vice principal if they could sit under a schoolyard tree, dubbed the “White Tree.” The tree was on the side of the campus that had always Read more:Modern
Elvira Arellano Arrested! 2007-08-19 21:44:59 Elvira Arellano was arrested about 3PM by law enforcement officials after leaving Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in downtown Los Angeles, according to Aztlan Electronic News. Arellano was scheduled to fly to Washington D.C. to lobby congress to reach and immigration reform agreement.
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that after talking to news media inside the church, Arellano and her supporters got into their van to head north to San Jose, where she was scheduled to speak at another church, when suddenly an unmarked vehicle stopped them. When the driver of Arellano’s van, Roberto Lopez, poked his head out of the van to see why the van blocked them, several other unmarked vehicles surrounded their van.
Agents came out of all the cars screaming at the top of their lungs for her to get out, Lozano said. Her 8-year-old son, Saul, started to cry, and Arellano said to everyone in the car, “Calm down. Don’t have any fear. They can’t hurt me.”
Then she turned to Read more:Elvira
Badges? DynCorp don’t need no stinking badges to patrol the U.S. borders! 2007-08-17 20:51:49 As Congress has tried and failed to pass immigration reform, both Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Bush Administration plan to continue their strong-arm tactics against undocumented immigrants. Soon after the Senate’s failed second attempt to pass Bush’s immigration bill, ICE agents have carried out well-organized publicized raids in factories, meatpacking plants, janitorial services companies, and other workplaces around the country employing immigrants. Recently, the Bush administration announced plans to step up immigration enforcement by raising fines on businesses who hire undocumented workers, overhauling temporary worker programs and speeding up deployment of border agents, according to a summary of the plans. Earlier this year, Bush claimed that his administration had stepped up efforts to improve border security by authorizing DynCorp to hire as many as 120 “current and former U.S. Border Patrol agents.” This was done because the Bush a
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