Siete activistas se encadenaron el miércoles a la verja que rodea la Casa Blanca para exigir la suspensión inmediata de las deportaciones de inmigrantes sin papeles que residen en Estados Unidos. Los activistas gritaban en inglés y español consignas como "No más deportaciones" y "Obama detenga las…
DetailsICE reporta que al 9 de septiembre 343, s 020 indocumentados han sido deportados de EEUU Activistas que defienden los derechos de los inmigrantes se encadenaron el miércoles a las rejas de los jardines de la Casa Blanca para pedirle al presidente Barack Obama que frene las deportaciones. La protesta se lleva a cabo un día después…
DetailsSiete activistas de la comunidad inmigrante fueron arrestados hoy tras esposarse a la verja de la Casa Blanca como parte de una protesta para exigir al presidente Barack Obama que ponga freno a las deportaciones de indocumentados. Al inicio de la protesta, los activistas portaron una enorme manta con la imagen de Obama en la que pidieron un alto a…
DetailsMaria Guadalupe Crespo recalls the hardship she endured while illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico 12 years ago. Her group of about 20 people spent days evading Border Patrol agents in the southern Arizona desert. Hungry and dehydrated, cheap by the time they reached their safe house the food that was waiting for them had spoiled and…
DetailsThis morning, two mothers chained themselves to the fence of the White House. Their act of civil disobedience was directed at President Obama, s who every day is ripping 1,100 families apart. One of the protesters is a mother of three from Phoenix, Arizona. The other is a 53-year-old grandmother from Atlanta. Why is Obama single-handedly destroying…
DetailsA good number of law enforcement officials are also rightly backing another bill, which would shield some people in the country illegally but without serious criminal records from immigration holds and deportations. Brown vetoed a bill on the same issue last year, story expressing fears it would block federal immigration authorities from removing dangerous criminals. This version, Assembly Bill 4, has been narrowed to address those concerns and deserves Brown’s support. Known as the Trust Act, it would allow police to hold illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes, including some misdemeanors; those charged with a serious or violent felony when probable cause has been found; and registered sex offenders or arsonists. But it would prohibit police from holding those arrested for minor crimes – illegal street vending or traffic violations, for instance – solely for immigration purposes.
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