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…
DetailsFamilies 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…
DetailsFamilies 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…
DetailsAt 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…
DetailsSeth Ronquillo is a fourth-year film and linguistics major at UCLA. He is co-chair of IDEAs, a group for students in the country illegally. Like many immigrant rights activists, he holds Janet Napolitano responsible for the increasing number of deportations during her tenure as Department of Homeland Security secretary. He calls her nomination to…
DetailsWhen the University of California regents were looking for a new president for perhaps the best public university system in the world — with 10 campuses and more than 230,000 students — they chose Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano? What? Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio wasn’t available? At UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the other UC…
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