Day laborers are pretty much taken for granted, as they wave at cars passing the sidewalk where they look for work near Home Depot or the local lumberyard. What road brought them to their street corners, far from their families in Mexico and Central America? What do they do if they don’t get hired — where do they live and how do they eat? Fidel Ant
Calling immigration issues the “800-pound gorilla in the room, ” the new police chief in Norristown, Pennsylvania said he plans to start drafting a policy this week on how his department will collaborate with federal immigration officers. Chief Mark Talbot says his department will re-examine its relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
DetailsLos Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who announced his pending retirement Tuesday, has had a complicated relationship with immigrants in his jurisdiction during his 15-year tenure. He’s the son of a Mexican-born immigrant mother who once lacked legal status. Yet he’s held a hard line on immigration enforcement that has made him a controversial…
Detailsfor immediate release // excuse cross-postingContact: B. Loewe, NDLON, 773.791.4668 Sheriff Baca Leaves Behind Terrible Record on Immigration, Replacement Will Need to Reverse Course January 07, 2014 – Los Angeles, CA“Sheriff Baca leaves behind a terrible record on immigration.” explains Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Under Sheriff Baca’s tenure,…
DetailsAnd just as red states moved to crack down on immigrants in the wake of the 2010 tea party revolution, a number of blue states interpreted Democrats’ 2012 success with Latino voters as a signal to move in the opposite direction. Today, entire states, cities, towns, counties and school boards, mostly in Democratic pockets across the country, are p…
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