Today’s NY Times editorial calls on Obama to act now without waiting for Congress to fix immigration and stop needless deportations. Call the White House at (202) 456-1111 TELL THEM: NOT ONE MORE DEPORTATION! SHUT DOWN STREAMLINE! End Operation Streamline! Stop the Deportations! We want real immigration reform with legalization for all! No more militarization of the…
by Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice Operation Streamline is the “best kept secret” of federal immigration policy according to Tucson, AZ attorney and immigrant rights activist Isabel Garcia. In the early morning of Oct. 11, twelve activists, including me, chained themselves around the front tires of two Border Patrol buses which…
Tear Down the Walls Peoples Power Assembly, Scheduled for Saturday, November 2 at 4-6:45 P.M. Immigration has been the human norm since even before the first family clans stepped out of Africa. With the creation of nations came militarized borders. Borders created by colonizers in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas divided communities and…
The “Dreamers” are leaders of the undocumented youth movement. On July 22, 2013, Dreamers who had “self-deported” to Mexico crossed back into the US in Caps and Gowns to demand that they be allowed to come home to graduate. This action and the solidarity protest were organized by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, one of…
by James Jordan 7/17/13 When the Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act was being voted on in 1988, a rider was added at the last minute by Sen. John McCain. For the first time in history, a federal law was passed that exempted a project from all cultural and environmental laws. What was the project? It was the…
by: Geoffrey Boyce In 2010 the controversy over Arizona’s SB 1070 shined a light on the proliferation of policies that attack and criminalize undocumented immigrants (and their loved ones) in the United States. Yet in the debate surrounding the Arizona law there was strikingly little discussion of the ways that SB 1070 merely extended –…
The Alliance for Global Justice supports the call for a National Demonstration against SB1070 in Phoenix on May 29th. Please click here to read more about participating in the demonstration. SB1070 is a racist, anti-Latino and anti-immigrant law that gives local and state police the authority to detain and demand identification from those they suspect…
