The Conversation: Immigration & America

As California struggles to wrestle its budget back into balance, an ever-louder chorus of critics suggests there is an easy answer to the state's troubles: End all services to illegal immigrants.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger waved away these concerns June 5 when he told the Bee editorial board that it is a "myth" that illegal immigrants are to blame for the state's budget problems.

"Our budget is out of whack because we have self-inflicted wounds that the Legislature and this state has never really sat down and had the will to go and make the necessary changes that have to be made," he said.

But the governor's answer did not satisfy the critics, if The Bee's comment boards, letters and phone calls are any indication. Why not end those services, these people ask, before shutting down state parks, laying off public employees or cutting the safety net for U.S. citizens? (June 21, 2009)

http://www.sacbee.com/740/story/1962163.html

Posted by: Uriel Lopez

Girl who fled Honduran gangs is granted asylum

An immigration judge has granted political asylum to an 11-year-old girl who fled Honduras to join her parents in San Francisco four years ago after gang members killed three of her relatives and threatened her family.

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[posted by sosa]

Man who exposed himself may escape deportation

SAN FRANCISCO -- The crime of indecent exposure isn't always "base, vile and depraved," a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday - a conclusion that enables a Bay Area man to fight his deportation to Mexico.

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[posted by sosa]

What Fuels the Grass Roots Rage

The Tea Party has lashed out at President Obama, and has made their anger of him being elected by a "multiracial" and "multicultural" America quite clear. In a speech at the Tea Party Convention, Tom Tancredo, co chairman of the anti illegal immigration Team America PAC, stated that the only reason the President is in the White House is because of "people who cannot even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English.." The Tea Party advocates tighter control of southern borders, and is against "illegal immigration".

click here for full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021003014.html

[posted by Ana Perales]

Immigration crackdown traps illegal farmworkers

For farmers and their employees, the reform of immigration rules is a patchwork process that is causing severe pain. It needs compassionate overhaul.

Agricultural businesses seem to be the favorite target of recent efforts by federal authorities to tighten immigration procedures. No industries are immune, but the feds seem convinced, as many others are, that agriculture, especially in California, harbors the largest number of illegal immigrants.

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[Posted by Kimberly Vasquez]

Achievement Gap Hearings

Achievement Gap Hearings of Latinos and Minorities at City College of San Francisco.

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[posted by sosa]

Acusación pone en aprietos a ICE

Acusación pone en aprietos a ICE

Piden intervención del Congreso para realizar una investigación en profundidad

* Antonieta Cádiz/laopinion
* 2010-02-04


En base a los resultados de una investigación sobre la conducta de algunos agentes del ICE, varios grupos le están pidiendo al Congreso que investigue

http://www.impre.com/inmigracion/2010/2/4/acusacion-pone-en-aprietos-a-i-171697-1.html#

[Posted by Zelene Valencia]