Migrant Rights

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Sheriff’s Report on Migrant Killing Raises Concern About Impartiality

 

“San Diego: On Tuesday, February 18 at approximately 6:40 AM, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed 41 year-old Jesus Flores-Cruz, a Mexican national, while in a rural area of San Diego County about 5 miles north of the Otay Mesa border crossing. The name of the Border Patrol agent has been withheld.

 

The San Diego County Sheriff’s press report on the homicide describes the person killed as the “suspect” and the person who killed him as the “victim.”

 

In response, Pedro Rios, the program director for the American Friends Service Committee in San Diego, issued the following statement on behalf of the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC):

 

“We are concerned that the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department is predisposing this investigation to bias by identifying the person shot and killed as a suspect at the initial stages of the investigation. This positioning endangers the impartiality in this case and our coalition has asked the Department of Justice to intervene to ensure a thorough and impartial investigation. The Justice Department is now reviewing the incident.”

 

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Washington state Legislature approves ‘Dream Act’

The Washington state Legislature has given final approval to a measure to expand college financial aid to include students who were brought to the state illegally as children.

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Making history: After three-year legal battle, first undocumented immigrant lawyer is sworn in

On Saturday, February 1, 2014, Sergio García was sworn in as the first undocumented immigrant lawyer. An important moment in history. Watch the moving video:

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

JewishNewsOne, no human is illegal. Drop the i-word.

 

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Disturbing Images Show Border Agents Encouraging Children to Shoot at Migrant Effigy

 

“Use-of-Force Policies Called to Question as the Agency’s Culture of Violence is Unabashedly Taught to Children”

 
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CESAR CHAVEZ Movie Trailer (2014)

CESAR CHAVEZ Movie Trailer. In theaters April 4th, 2014 Join us on Facebook http://facebook.com/FreshMovieTrailers Directed by Diego Luna, Chávez chronicles …

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Undoing Border Imperialism

 

“Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. ”

 
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How Immigration Hurdles Derail Startup Success

Today he funds or supports 22 American companies, but entrepreneur Manu Kumar was once almost deported. Here’s why he supports March for Innovation.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

More people mean more job creators and more employee’s to contribute to the economy.

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Farmers hope immigration bill yields more foreign ag workers – The Sacramento Bee

Walk the aisles of any neighborhood grocery store today and you’re as likely to find tomatoes picked in Sinaloa, Mexico, as Central California or oranges from Sao Paulo, Brazil, as Bradenton, Fla.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

First the U.S. exported manufacturing jobs, now the U.S. is exporting harvesting jobs.

 

The U.S. is growing more dependant on foreign countries to feed itself.

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Choosing not to protect child farmworkers

 

“Children are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of pesticide exposure as their bodies are still developing, and they consume more water and food and breathe more air, pound for pound, than adults. Long-term effects of pesticide exposure include cancer, neurological problems and reproductive health issues.

 

Most children working on farms in North Carolina are poor and Latino. While their parents are frequently undocumented migrants, most of the children are U.S. citizens. Farmworker parents rely on their children’s minimum wage earnings to help supplement meager family incomes, averaging less than $20,000 annually nationwide.

 

Under a double standard in federal labor law, children can work in agriculture at far younger ages, for far longer hours and in far more hazardous conditions than other working children. Federal law has no minimum age for children to work on small farms with their parents’ permission. At age 12, children can work for hire on a farm of any size.

 

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Community Village‘s insight:

 

Racist U.S. laws allow certain groups of children (mostly Latino) to work in these dangerous conditions.

 

@getgln

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