Day Laborer & Immigrant Orgs Join National “Coming Out of the Shadows” Month, Call for Stop to Deportations
Court backs block on Arizona law aimed at day laborers – Chicago Tribune
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday on the side of day laborers seeking work in Arizona, here upholding an injunction that bars the state from enforcing part of its immigration law that prohibits motorists from stopping traffic to pick up workers. In the unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Few Female Day Laborers Try Jobs in NYC Cleanup | Womens eNews
Rosa Vasquez shifted from side to side on a broad cement overpass above a highway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, order one recent cold and bright Wednesday afternoon. She accepted a flyer for an upcoming scaffolding training session and said she would consider attending the meeting. Eight women huddled in winter jackets nearby did not look up, standing
Arizona’s Day Labor Law May Violate First Amendment – NYTimes.com
Arizona’s crudely drafted and unconstitutional immigration law, already battered in its journey through the federal courts, had yet another setback today. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled that its provisions forbidding day laborers to look for work violate the First Amendment.
Feds free hundreds from immigration detention
Republicans on Tuesday denounced the release of hundreds of illegal immigrants from federal detention centers as an attempt to frighten Americans into supporting President Obama’s budget spending demands. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,said it was "abhorrent" that Obama would release lawbreakers…
Release of ICE detainees shines spotlight on immigration reform debate
After news came out that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had released some immigrant detainees who pose no security risks in anticipation of looming budget cuts, Latino groups called for a halt to deportations of undocumented families. “It shouldn’t take a manufactured crisis in Washington to prompt our immigration agencies to actually take steps towards using government resources wisely or keeping families together, treat ” said United We Dream’s Carolina Canizales. Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), said ”the President should move aggressively to reunite the families currently divided by detention not only to save money but to bring immigration policy back in line with cherished national values.” ICE deputy press secretary Gillian Christensen released a statement today, saying that “as fiscal uncertainty remains over the continuing resolution and possible sequestration,
State TRUST Acts & NYC Bills to Protect Against Record Breaking Deportations, Set Direction for National Reform
Revelations of Deportation Quota and Widespread Detainer Requests Spur Local Policies to Restore Trust and Safety, Protect Immigrant Residents States and cities across the country are taking the initiative to use their constitutional powers to improve public safety and advance the inclusion of their immigrant residents by limiting ICE’s overreaching hold requests. New bills are expected to pass New…
Immigrants Released Ahead of Automatic Budget Cuts – NYTimes.com
The government has not dropped the deportation cases against the immigrants, however: The detainees have been freed on supervised release while their cases continue in court, officials said. The releases, which have taken place over the past few days, were approved “in order to make the best use of our limited detention resources in the current fiscal climate and to manage our detention population under current congressionally mandated levels,” Gillian M. Christensen, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement. The budget cuts, also called the sequester, are scheduled to take effect Friday. The agency, Ms. Christensen added, “is continuing to prosecute their cases in immigration court and, when ordered, will seek their removal from the country.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Frees Detainees As Sequester Looms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement released some people from immigrant detention facilities across the country on Monday in response to looming federal budget cuts. "In order to make the best use of our limited detention resources in the current fiscal climate and to manage our detention population under current congressionally mandated…
In Response to ICE’s Reported Release of Detainees, NDLON Calls for End to Police/ICE Collaboration Programs
Nation Cannot Afford Immigration Policy Driven by Politically Motivated Deportation Quota February 26, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA In response to the news of ICE releasing some detainees as it undergoes a review related to budget considerations, Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director of NDLON issued the following statement: “We cannot afford morally to be a society where immigration policy…