There Was a Chinatown Here: Objects and Stories from Downtown San Jose
Community Village‘s insight:
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Immigrants Are Being Held In “Freezers” Before Being Sent To Detention Centers
“Interviews and court records show many immigrants have been held for days in rooms kept at temperatures so low that they develop pneumonia and other illnesses.”
See on www.mycuentame.org
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. ”
Noam Chomsky: How the U.S.-Mexico Border Is Cruel by Design
“The US-Mexican border, like most borders, was established by violence — and its architecture is the architecture of violence.”
Community Village‘s insight:
An eleven page article.
There is also a button to “View as a Single Page”
See on www.alternet.org
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.
See on www.sacbee.com
Lawsuit: Border Patrol should not have hired agent who killed woman
A San Diego family filed a new lawsuit against the Border Patrol and one of its agent. They told Team 10 the federal agent had no business having a badge or a gun.
Woman’s little girl speaks publicly for first time
See on www.10news.com
Listen to a U.S. Citizen’s Story of Being Detained By Immigration Enforcement – COLORLINES
WNYC reporter Sarah Abdurrahman is detained at the border along with multiple family members, and is now filing an official complaint
See on colorlines.com
Who’s the real illegal alien- Farrakhan on Immigration & the Mexican Border us history mexico
(FinalCall.com) – Speaking on the so-called immigration controversy during his Oct. 21, 2012 address, Minister Farrakhan said everyone should be given the pa…
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Germany’s Refugee Policy Tested By New Arrivals
Germany’s Refugee Policy Tested By New Arrivals : Parallels : NPR. As many as 5,000 Syrian refugees are after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government agreed to a U.N. request to host them. But they a…
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