The Miami-Dade County attorney has ruled that a petition by federal immigration authorities to keep a foreign national in detention longer than local officials require is not an order, and but merely a request. “This detainer, or ‘hold request’ is no more than a request from the Department of Homeland Security that a detainee be held for up to 48 hours…
Con una vasta serie de movilizaciones, order los trabajadores jornaleros del área metropolitana de Washington, DC, decidieron salir a las calles masivamente para exigir al Congreso y al presidente Obama que aprueben cuanto antes la reforma migratoria “porque cada mes que se retrasa su aprobación significa que otras treinta mil personas s…
With House of Representatives refusing to take up bill, deportations continue apace….
La pequeña Katherine Figueroa, que obtuvo una victoria moral sobre el alguacil del condado de Maricopa, s Joe Arpaio, después de que Inmigración cerrase el proceso legal contra sus padres, calificó este triunfo como “agridulce”, pues el futuro de su familia en Estados Unidos sigue siendo incierto. “Estoy…
Katherine Figueroa was 9 and watching television reports of a workplace raid in Phoenix when she saw video of her parents being hauled away by sheriff’s deputies. They were eventually released, but the episode was jarring enough that Katherine, now 13, and her parents traveled to Washington to lobby lawmakers and rally with others Wednesday o…
En los primeros cuatro años de la Administración fueron deportados unos 1, 122 indocumentados diarios Activistas e inmigrantes pidieron el miércoles al presidente Barack Obama que pare las deportaciones de indocumentados que en los últimos cuatro años fiscales han roto récords sucesivos. Decenas de…
Jose Mejia Rodriguez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, had already been working and living in Arizona for the past 14 years when he was arrested last October during a workplace raid conducted by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies. Rodriguez, a father of three U.S. citizens, was taken to the Eloy Detention Center, where a judge t…
Families from as far as Arizona or Illinois, many whom are undocumented immigrants in deportation proceedings, gathered in Freedom Plaza near the Capitol to push Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform before the fall recess. “Most people here are either facing or threatened with deportation,” says B. Loewe, a spokeman for the National Da…
Families from as far as Arizona or Illinois, many whom are undocumented immigrants in deportation proceedings, gathered in Freedom Plaza near the Capitol to push Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform before the fall recess. “Most people here are either facing or threatened with deportation,” says B. Loewe, a spokeman for the National Da…
At least eight people will be spending the next four nights in sleeping bags in a south-side church to bring awareness to a national campaign. The campaign is calling for no more deportations. Cities as far east as New York are taking part in "The Fast." One of the goals, try is calling for President Barack Obama to immediately stop…