by Elise A. Fialkowski
The Legal Intelligencer
August 09, 2010
Frustrated with the failure of the federal government to pass meaningful immigration reform, states have moved in to fill the void. While Arizona has recently received much of the press regarding this issue, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have also moved forward to introduce E-Verify legislation designed to combat the employment of unauthorized workers.
At the same time, President Obama's administration has stepped up worksite enforcement initiatives and has called on Congress to enact comprehensive immigration legislation that would contain a federal E-Verify requirement. The message is clear: Employers must achieve compliance.
E-Verify is an internet-based Employment Eligibility Verification System run by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, that allows employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of newly hired employees.
Read full article here.
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
March protests attacks on Mexican nationals
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 29, 2010
New York (CNN) -- A Latino advocacy group organized a march through the streets of Staten Island, New York, Wednesday night to protest a string of attacks on Mexican nationals.
Approximately 300 members of Make the Road New York, an alliance of non-profit organizations and area residents, gathered at the intersection where the most recent attack on a Mexican national took place.
The victim of that attack, Alejandro Galindo, was in attendance.
"I hope that the violence will end, that when we are walking to work we don't have to be scared because we're not criminals. If the violence stopped, we will feel very happy because we will feel like human beings walking down the street," he said.
Read full article here,
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
July 29, 2010
New York (CNN) -- A Latino advocacy group organized a march through the streets of Staten Island, New York, Wednesday night to protest a string of attacks on Mexican nationals.
Approximately 300 members of Make the Road New York, an alliance of non-profit organizations and area residents, gathered at the intersection where the most recent attack on a Mexican national took place.
The victim of that attack, Alejandro Galindo, was in attendance.
"I hope that the violence will end, that when we are walking to work we don't have to be scared because we're not criminals. If the violence stopped, we will feel very happy because we will feel like human beings walking down the street," he said.
Read full article here,
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
NY's Open Door: How the mosque tests us
Tuesday August 3, 2010
by Michael Bloomberg
The New York Post
We have come here to Governors Island to stand where the earliest settlers first set foot in New Amsterdam, and where the seeds of religious tolerance were first planted. We've come here to see the inspiring symbol of liberty that, more than 250 years later, would greet millions of immigrants in the harbor, and we come here to state as strongly as ever -- this is the freest city in the world. That's what makes New York special and different and strong.
Our doors are open to everyone -- everyone with a dream and a willingness to work hard and play by the rules. New York City was built by immigrants, and it is sustained by immigrants -- by people from more than a hundred different countries speaking more than two hundred different languages and professing every faith. And whether your parents were born here, or you came yesterday, you are a New Yorker.
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life, and it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11.
Read full article here.
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
by Michael Bloomberg
The New York Post
We have come here to Governors Island to stand where the earliest settlers first set foot in New Amsterdam, and where the seeds of religious tolerance were first planted. We've come here to see the inspiring symbol of liberty that, more than 250 years later, would greet millions of immigrants in the harbor, and we come here to state as strongly as ever -- this is the freest city in the world. That's what makes New York special and different and strong.
Our doors are open to everyone -- everyone with a dream and a willingness to work hard and play by the rules. New York City was built by immigrants, and it is sustained by immigrants -- by people from more than a hundred different countries speaking more than two hundred different languages and professing every faith. And whether your parents were born here, or you came yesterday, you are a New Yorker.
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life, and it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11.
Read full article here.
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
Immigrant students to hold Boston Dream teach-in
Monday, August 2, 2010
By Associated Press
The Boston Herald
BOSTON — Student immigrant advocates want to bring their Dream University to Boston.
Advocates for the Boston-based group Student Immigrant Movement are scheduled to host on Tuesday a one-day teach-in in front of the Massachusetts Statehouse. They are using the teach-in for undocumented students to push a federal proposal known as the DREAM Act, which would give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship through college enrollment or military service.
The move comes after a coalition of student immigrant advocacy groups in Massachusetts, Colorado and California last month launched Dream University, a makeshift school in the nation’s capital, reminiscent of the 1960s teach-ins, which were open educational forums with broad discussions that took a similar approach in mobilizing opposition to the Vietnam War.
Read full article here.
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
By Associated Press
The Boston Herald
BOSTON — Student immigrant advocates want to bring their Dream University to Boston.
Advocates for the Boston-based group Student Immigrant Movement are scheduled to host on Tuesday a one-day teach-in in front of the Massachusetts Statehouse. They are using the teach-in for undocumented students to push a federal proposal known as the DREAM Act, which would give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship through college enrollment or military service.
The move comes after a coalition of student immigrant advocacy groups in Massachusetts, Colorado and California last month launched Dream University, a makeshift school in the nation’s capital, reminiscent of the 1960s teach-ins, which were open educational forums with broad discussions that took a similar approach in mobilizing opposition to the Vietnam War.
Read full article here.
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
Thursday, July 29, 2010
"Illegal immigrants committing crimes not always deported"
July 28, 2010
by Mike Beaudet
MyFoxBoston.com
There's wide agreement that illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes should be deported.
In May, a state lawmaker in his car was hit by an illegal immigrant who was charged with drunk driving. The illegal immigrant taunted state police, saying he'd go back to his home country of Mexico and that nothing would happen to him.
FOX Undercover discovered in some cases, little does happen to illegal immigrants who commit crimes here in Massachusetts.
Read full article here.
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
by Mike Beaudet
MyFoxBoston.com
There's wide agreement that illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes should be deported.
In May, a state lawmaker in his car was hit by an illegal immigrant who was charged with drunk driving. The illegal immigrant taunted state police, saying he'd go back to his home country of Mexico and that nothing would happen to him.
FOX Undercover discovered in some cases, little does happen to illegal immigrants who commit crimes here in Massachusetts.
Read full article here.
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Report details plight of mentally ill detainees
By DAVID CRARY
The Associated Press via: The Washington PostSunday, July 25, 2010
NEW YORK -- Thousands of mentally disabled immigrants are entangled in deportation proceedings each year with little or no legal help, leaving them distraught, defenseless and detained as their fates are decided.
Their plight is detailed in a report issued Sunday by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, who exhort federal authorities to do better.
Shortcomings outlined by the two groups include no right to appointed counsel, inflexible detention policies, insufficient guidance for judges on handling people with mental disabilities, and inadequately coordinated services to aid detainees while in custody.
Read full article here.
Monday, July 12, 2010
R.I. troopers embrace firm immigration role
July 6, 2010
by Maria Sacchetti
The Boston Globe
SCITUATE, R.I. — Rhode Island State Trooper Nuno Vasconcelos was patrolling Interstate 95 a few months ago when he came upon a two-car accident in heavy traffic. The trooper pulled up, stepped out of his cruiser, and asked one of the drivers for his license.
The man said he did not have a license, and under questioning, confessed that he was here illegally from Guatemala.
If the accident had happened 15 miles north in Massachusetts, the man would probably have been arrested for driving without a license, which carries a fine of up to $1,000 and 10 days in jail, then released pending an appearance in district court.
But in Rhode Island, illegal immigrants face a far greater penalty: deportation.
Read full article here.
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
by Maria Sacchetti
The Boston Globe
SCITUATE, R.I. — Rhode Island State Trooper Nuno Vasconcelos was patrolling Interstate 95 a few months ago when he came upon a two-car accident in heavy traffic. The trooper pulled up, stepped out of his cruiser, and asked one of the drivers for his license.
The man said he did not have a license, and under questioning, confessed that he was here illegally from Guatemala.
If the accident had happened 15 miles north in Massachusetts, the man would probably have been arrested for driving without a license, which carries a fine of up to $1,000 and 10 days in jail, then released pending an appearance in district court.
But in Rhode Island, illegal immigrants face a far greater penalty: deportation.
Read full article here.
[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
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