an english version of this news below La Policía francesa desmanteló ayer «la jungla», un campo de refugiados donde vivían cientos de personas, en su mayoría afganas, en su intento por llegar a Gran Bretaña, y que se ha convertido en uno de los símbolos del drama de la inmigración en Europa. Organizaciones de derechos humanos [...]

The South Louisiana Correctional Center has seen five hunger strikes in one month, as detainees are denied medical care and access to legal libraries. by Aura Bogado August 7, 2009. When more than 60 prisoners at the South Louisiana Correctional Center in Basile, LA, began a hunger strike last week, in protest of the facility’s deplorable conditions, [...]

by William Fisher NEW YORK, Jul 22 (IPS) – Duarnis Perez, a native of the Dominican Republic, became a U.S. citizen at 15 when his mother was naturalised. But he didn’t know that meant he was also a citizen. He thought he was an illegal immigrant, and so did the authorities.

by Deepti Hajela July 22, 2009 NEW YORK – Immigration agents raiding homes for suspected illegal immigrants violated the U.S. Constitution by entering without proper consent and may have used racial profiling, a report analyzing arrest records found. Latinos made up a disproportionate number of the people arrested who were not the stated targets of the raids, and [...]

Por Cillian Donnelly BRUSELAS, 8 jun (IPS) – La centroderecha se comprometió a mantener su actual política tras retener la mayoría del Parlamento Europeo en las urnas este fin de semana, a pesar del disímil avance de la extrema derecha. Según los últimos datos, el centroderechista Partido Popular Europeo (PPE) se alzó con más de 36 por [...]