ICE operation targets 83 cities nationwide Gang bust nets 5 in Phoenix area

(Posted by Uriel Rivera)

PHOENIX — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Wednesday announced the arrest of 476 gang members, gang associates and other criminals, including five in the Phoenix area, as part of Project Big Freeze. The ICE-led enforcement operation is targeting gangs in 83cities.

http://www.svherald.com/content/news/2010/01/28/ice-operation-targets-83-cities-nationwide

Proud to be racist

Counselman Bob Kellar from Santa Clarita makes a remark that he is a "proud racist". Even though Kellar argues that people misunderstood his words, he will not apologize for his remark. His remarks have caused people to praise him and call him a "patriotic hero". To read the full article http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-santa-clarita28-2010jan28,0,4156451.story

Posted by Enedina Garcia

(Posted By Uriel Rivera)

PHOENIX, Ariz.— Miriam Mendiola-Martinez, an undocumented immigrant charged with using someone else’s identity to work, gave birth to a boy on Dec. 21 at Maricopa Medical Center. After her C-section, she was shackled for two days to her hospital bed. She was not allowed to nurse her baby. (read the entire story by clicking on the following link)

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=bc96e9bf40ad9ac97a78dba165ea2448&from=rss

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=bc96e9bf40ad9ac97a78dba165ea2448&from=rss

Illegal Immigrants Make 1,500-Mile March to Washington

(Posted By Uriel Rivera)

Three undocumented immigrant students have embarked on a four month, 1,500-mile campaign, walking from Miami to the nation's capital to advocate for immigration reform legislation that would give them a path to citizenship.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/immigration-illegal-students-make-1500-mile-march-washington/story?id=9636199

Arizona Republic: Changes to immigrant-detention system coming, official says

(By Uriel Rivera)

WASHINGTON - The head of U.S. immigration enforcement on Monday announced plans for an overhaul of the government's controversial detention system for people who face deportation.

The moves described by John T. Morton, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, address oversight, medical care and tracking of detainees at facilities in Arizona and across the country.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/01/25/20100125immigration-detention-ice-arizona.html

Study: Immigration reform will raise workers' wages

January 7, 2010
Telemundo.com

http://www.telemundo47.com/inmigracion/22173845/detail.html

(AP) New York- A study conducted by the Immigration Policy Center of Washington and the Center for American Progress states that Immigration reform would generate approximately 1.5 billion dollars in GDP during the next ten years.

The article suggests that with the legalization/naturalization of the millions of undocumented immigrants present in the United States would result in a significant amount of growth within the United States' economy.

This could well hold to be an effective argument when drafting upcoming and considered immigration reform plans.

{Posted by Jorge Hernández}

Obama's Promise

La Promesa de Obama (Obama's Promise)
Written by Jorge Ramos Avalos
January 20, 2010

http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?chid=3&schid=278&secid=12134&cid=2246597

Jorge Ramos, a very well-known Mexican news reporter and journalist lets it be known that President Barack Obama was not able to come up with an appropriate and efficient immigration reform plan within his first year of presidency as he had promised to the Latino Community, which caused him to win approximately 67 percent of the Latino vote, in an interview with Jorge Ramos on May 28, 2008.

Ramos continues to explain how it is not Obama's fault in its entirety, but how as a result of one of the worst economic crisis in eight decades everything had to be modified and the pressure went from finding an immigration reform plan to finding a solution to ease the economic situation in the US. The economic crisis was a more important issue that first had to be resolved to be able to move on to the immigration policy.

The Good News: President Barack Obama affirmed that his goal is to reach an immigration reform which he can strongly back and support within the first half of 2010. Hopefully there won't be too many obstacles on the way to that goal this time.

{Posted By Jorge Hernández}