«Los hispanos en la mira de la CIA», titulaba un despacho de la BBC-Mundo del 20 de octubre último. Nadie se dio por enterado. Se informaba que la Agencia Central de Inteligencia de Estados Unidos, CIA, “en su proceso de reclutamiento” había establecido “un convenio con la Asociación Hispana de Universidades” (HACU, por sus siglas en [...]

Source: Real News Network ‘Attrition by enforcement’ is the name of the game in Arizona. The goal is to dissuade undocumented immigration by making life unbearable for the undocumented already living in Arizona. Desert tent jails and arbitrary checkpoints are two of the tactics used to strike fear into the undocumented with the goal of deterring [...]

While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal government is expanding its efforts to use local law enforcement in immigration enforcement and has launched a major PR campaign to defend it.

Dado que la inmensa mayoría de los migrantes irregulares de Arizona son mexicanos, la medida tiene un contenido racial evidente y se convertirá en una práctica discriminatoria.

by Joel Schoening September 2009 Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security (WAGES) is a non-profit organization in the California Bay Area that has been building cooperatives for over a decade. On a recent Friday morning, I had a chance to talk with WAGES’ director, Hilary Abell, about the WAGES model of cooperative development and what WAGES has [...]

US war on crime has nothing to do with crime One in 35 Americans are caught up in the corrections system and incarceration is on the rise. Why is this when the US crime rate has dropped so remarkably? by Andrew Oxford September 2009 The United States incarcerates more of its own citizens than any other nation. It has [...]

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 [...]