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#StandWithNanHui: For Immigration and Gender Justice


BY SALLY J. KIM

Korean immigrant mother Jo, subjected to abuse by her daughter’s father and former partner, Jesse Charlton, found herself entangled in criminal, family law, and immigration systems.

Source: aapivoices.com

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Day of Action to #StopBorderBrutality and for Justice & Accountability – YouTube

Maria Puga: On May 28, 2010, my husband and father of my 5 children was brutally beaten and tortured at the San Diego border by federal agents. Anastasio Hernandez Rojas died the following day. The San Diego coroner’s office described Anastasio’s death as a homicide and found that he had “several loose teeth; bruising to his chest, stomach, hips, knees, back, lips, head and eyelids; five broken ribs; and a damaged spine.”

Source: www.youtube.com

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HBO’s Vice takes in-depth look at Alabama after harsh 2011 anti-immigrant bill | Latina Lista

By Obed Manuel
LatinaLista

“Them Hispanics work hard as hell,” Jesse Durr tells Vice correspondent Thomas Morton during a segment of Friday’s new episode titled “Sweet Home Alabama.”

Durr was one of the few people in Alabama who took on one of the thousands of agricultural jobs that undocumented immigrants left vacant after 2011, when the state’s governor signed the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, or HB56, into law.

The law intended to make life so difficult for undocumented immigrants in Alabama that they would have to leave the state or the country. Morton started reporting in January 2014 and spent the next six months checking in on the small independent farmers featured in the latest episode of Vice.

 

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Source: latinalista.com

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Update 2: New Article in TruthOut About Guest! · Guest: A New Film About The Guestworker Program

Hi all! I recently wrote this article in Truth Out “Is A Safe And Legal Immigration System Possible?” featuring stories and background from Guest. Please give it a read and spread the word, we only have two weeks left to raise what we need to make Guest happen!Thank you, as always, for your support,LVD

Source: www.kickstarter.com

 

A border activist said “You are either a worker or a guest. You don’t have a guest in your house, then ask them to wash your dishes.”

 

During enslavement the workers were taken care of, although only like property, and only when not being beaten and raped.

 

Now that enslavement is over by law, the U.S. doesn’t want agricultural workers to even have citizenship.

 

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#BlackLivesMatter Every Day | Best Tweets 3.14

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Drop the I-Word: Victory for Advocates, Associated Press Stops Using Phrase “Illegal Immigrant”

The Associated Press has dropped the phrase “illegal immigrant” from its popular stylebook, a move welcomed by immigrant advocates who argue the term is a dehumanizing slur. The influential AP Stylebook is the definitive guide for reporters and editors both within the news cooperative and beyond. We’re joined by Rinku Sen, publisher of Colorlines.com and president of the Applied Research Center, which launched the the “Drop the I-Word” campaign in 2010 in order to remove the term “illegals” from everyday use and public discourse.

Source: www.democracynow.org

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North Texas activists protest killing of unarmed Mexican immigrant

GRAPEVINE, TX — The Grapevine City Council conference room filled with shouts of “No justice! No peace!” Tuesday night as more than 100 people showed up to protest the officer-involved killing of Ruben Garcia Villalpando.
Villalpando’s parents patiently wait for the Grapevine City Council meeting to begin. Photo: Obed Manuel

Villalpando’s parents patiently wait for the Grapevine City Council meeting to begin. Photo: Obed Manuel

Martha Romero, Villalpando’s wife, sat quietly in the front row of the conference room with her four children. Villalpando’s parents who were visiting from the Mexican state of Durango sat behind her wearing “Justice for Ruben” stickers.

Signs around the room read with “Are you going to kill me?” which Villalpando’s family said were his final words.

The activist reaction comes after the unarmed Villalpando was shot and killed by Grapevine police officer Robert Clark on the night of Feb 20.

After clearing its agenda, the council left the remainder of the meeting to those who had signed up to speak.

“Right now it’s my family suffering, but what about tomorrow? What about the families of tomorrow?” said Fernando Romero, Villalpando’s brother-in-law. “We want this to stop and we want justice. We want what is right. We want everything to be clear. I’m asking you to make it right.”

Source: latinalista.com

 

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Police Officer Shoots 3 unarmed Latinos, killing 2 of Them

The rush to militarize the U.S.-Mexico border has tragic consequences in South Texas for unarmed immigrants shot from a state police helicopter.

Source: www.texasobserver.org

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The U.S. is firing live ammunition at unarmed (im)migrants / refugees. This is not even legal or moral to do to an animal.

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