No queda de otra más que recurrir al Plan B. Para los activistas migratorios, online el Plan B es forzar a Obama a parar las deportaciones (“Si Obama no las para las paramos nosotros”, dice algunos compañeros), con la amenaza de que en las elecciones intermedias del 2014 nadie va a votar por los Demócratas si su presidente sigue dep…
San Bernardino County has renewed an agreement with the federal government for a program aimed at identifying jail inmates who are in the country illegally. County supervisors Tuesday approved the new agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with no debate. San Bernardino County is one of about three dozen departments nationwide that participate in ICE’s 287g program, and under which ICE trains sheriff’s deputies and other employees on how to determine whether inmates may be in the country illegally. ICE agents then make further queries. Inmates found to be living in the country illegally are held for possible deportation after they leave jail. A number of immigrant-rights and Latino organizations oppose 287g, cheap saying it singles out Latinos for questioning and leads the deportation of minor offenders and people arrested but not convicted of crimes.
Should local police be involved in enforcing the nation’s immigration laws? The answer to this question may seem obvious. After all, a law is a law. But the answer is neither that simple, nor that straightforward. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that the federal government has exclusive powers to enact and enforce immigration law. But a patchwork of laws and policies call on local law enforcement authorities to participate in immigration enforcement. Key among these is the Se Communities deportation program, or S-Comm. Under S-Comm, when law enforcement authorities take someone’s fingerprints, the prints are sent automatically from the FBI to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement database for an immigration background check. ICE then decides when to send a detainer request to local law enforcement agencies. While the immigrant is incarcerated, ICE decides whether to take further action.
San Francisco supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a tough new ordinance barring police officers and sheriff’s deputies from holding for deportation all but a handful of arrestees who are living in the country without permission. The law is designed to encourage people without valid residency papers to call police to report crimes and…
Advocates for immigrants have gained ground in the last six months in their long fight against a U.S. policy allowing federal immigration officials to screen suspects in local jails. Now they are close to notching their biggest victory yet. In California, order the home of nearly 2.5 million unauthorized immigrants, seek lawmakers this month once again passed the so-called Trust Act, which would block local police from holding suspects for immigration agents when they would otherwise be free to go. Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, has until mid-October to decide whether to sign the law.
Sobre el escritorio del gobernador Jerry Brown aguarda el Acta de Confianza (Trust Act), una medida que daría un gran alivio a la comunidad inmigrante al impedir que las policías locales y de los condados colaboren con el Servicio de Migración y Aduanas en el encarcelamiento de indocumentados que no tienen delitos serios….
La Casa Blanca insistió hoy en que los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos deben aprobar una reforma migratoria integral y que no existe un "Plan B" si el Congreso no la aprueba este año. Durante su acostumbrada rueda de prensa diaria, look el portavoz de la Casa Blanca, Jay Carney, dijo que el…
Mientras el Congreso se toma su tiempo en prioridades diferentes a la reforma migratoria, grupos de activistas enfocan cada vez más su energía en la acción directa para detener deportaciones y presionar al Presidente Barack Obama a tomar medidas administrativas para proteger a familias de la separación. La prioridad,…
Advocates reacted angrily Wednesday to President Obama’s refusal to use executive action to halt deportations of unauthorized immigrants, as frustration over the delay of immigration legislation began to blow back to the White House. Undocumented immigrants protest outside the White House on Wednesday. (David Nakamura/The Washington Post) Shortly…
Washington, D.C.- Los siete activistas indocumentados arrestados en la Casa Blanca la mañana de este miércoles ya fueron liberados. Todos recibieron multas, pero no tuvieron problemas por su estatus migratorio. Se los llevaron gritando. Amarrados a la reja de la residencia de Gobierno, exigieron ampliar la acción diferida para…