Carolina Velez with the Richmond-based Wayside Center for Popular Education told The Associated Press that the protesters lay across the roadway to protest a high number of deportations. The annual average of deportations increased to near 400, 000 since President Barack Obama took power in 2009. The protesters linked arms using sections of PVC…
DetailsCarolina Velez with the Richmond-based Wayside Center for Popular Education told The Associated Press that the protesters lay across the roadway to protest a high number of deportations. The annual average of deportations increased to near 400, link view 000 since President Barack Obama took power in 2009. The protesters linked arms using sections of PVC…
DetailsCarolina Velez with the Richmond-based Wayside Center for Popular Education told The Associated Press that the protesters lay across the roadway to protest a high number of deportations. The annual average of deportations increased to near 400, 000 since President Barack Obama took power in 2009. The protesters linked arms using sections of PVC…
DetailsLet’s say the improbable happens and Congress passes immigration reform. However it’s packaged — one bill or many — you can be sure it will focus on “sticks,” not “carrots.” That’s what is required to se the cooperation of the “anti-amnesty” contingent in the House and the Senate: They demand a highly militarized border and “enhanced” internal…
DetailsIs the President’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security anti-immigrant? The truth is that nobody knows. Nobody has bothered to ask. Here’s what we do know: Jeh Johnson comes from the Pentagon; he has little experience with the issue of immigration; and he favors legislative (as opposed to administrative) changes to the immigration…
DetailsPolice arrested eight people who had formed a human chain this morning in front of the Elizabeth Detention Center in protest of the government’s deportation policies. About 60 people chanted “not one more” and “education, not deportation” along industrial Evans Street, which houses the detention center, a nondescript beige one-story building operat…
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