Migra Entries

11 de Enero, 2008

Liberty in Chains

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , M , Migra , Protesta , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: borders, Gitmo, Justicia

Six years and going strong since America perverted its own sense of justice and fairness by maintaining a detention center in another country and under the banner of freedom from terror illegally detained American citizens and world citizens exposing them heavily to torture instead of legal representation and equal protection...

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 M spits hot fire at Problemchylde. This post was rhymed and ripped by the hottest blogger of all time at 3:21 PM.  | | (2)

13 de Noviembre, 2007

Bloody Kisses on la Frontera

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Frontera , Migra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: ALIENZ, borders, Environment, Format, hope, migra, resistance, The Haunted Land

I HAVE TO SAY, the cross-border Kissing Booth just about cracked me up. Though I am not often capable of such things, meeting antagonism and violence and hostility with a sense of humor and love is probably the most satisfying way to engage negativity and destructive energy. Though la migra...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 11:18 AM.  | | (3)

4 de Octubre, 2007

Armed Squads Shrugging Up Terror

Categorized under Migra , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: ALIENZ, ICE, migra, The Haunted Land

THE AGE OF TERROR unfolds its crooked legs and splays them every which way, deep sheen of justification and bloodlust radiates. Always excused by some greater purpose, the reliance upon violent means and cruelly enforced ideas of division and fear continue to perpetuate themselves... Armed squads bursting into homes...

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7 de Septiembre, 2007

2007: The Beatles Invade Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Migra | Tags: ALIENZ, borders, Change, Joshua Hoyt, migra, The Beatles, The STRIVE Act

IN REFERENCE TO THE LAST POST, here is Joshua Hoyt's (Executive Director Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights) spoken testimony to Congress concerning H.R. 1645, the "Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy"-- The STRIVE Act of 2007. It is an intelligent and informed and passionate talk (and...

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The STRIVE Act

Categorized under Frontera , Migra | Tags: familia, HR 1645, Immigration, Joshua Hoyt, migra, The STRIVE Act

For Immediate Release - Press Release September 6, 2007 ICIRR DIRECTOR AND POLISH IMMIGRANT LEADER TESTIFY AT CONGRESSIONAL IMMIGRATION HEARING Joshua Hoyt, Tony Wasilewski push for fixes to broken immigration system Washington D.C. - As part of the push for real solutions for the broken immigration system, ICIRR executive director...

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25 de Agosto, 2007

Elvira Brings the Fight to México

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Gobierno , Latin America , Medios , Migra , Oaxaca , Política México , Protesta | Tags: Elvira Arellano, migra, Oaxaca, Power to the People, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Ruiz

ELVIRA WON'T REST, and though she was prevented by men with guns from showing up in D.C. to step to what she felt was unjust persecution and law, she now speaks her peace to the government of Mexico. I have a feeling this mujer is determined to confront the...

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23 de Agosto, 2007

The Unauthorized President and His Undocumented Legacy

Categorized under Migra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: ALIENZ, hypocrisy, Language

ONCE AGAIN, Dubya represents lies, empty rhetoric, and ultimately and overwhelmingly: "hypocrisy." If President Bush is serious about getting tough on U.S. employers who hire illegal aliens, he can start with his own administration, which employs thousands of unauthorized workers, says the top Republican on the House immigration subcommittee. A...

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22 de Agosto, 2007

ICE Raid on Smithfield Foods Slaughterhouse

Categorized under Migra | Tags: migra

From seiu.org, listserv News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEIU Condemns NC Smithfield Raid Promise of America Sullied by Thug-Like Attacks WASHINGTON, DC--Eliseo Medina, Executive Vice President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement today regarding an ICE raid of a Smithfield Foods pork slaughterhouse in Bladen...

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9 de Agosto, 2007

Sorry, Citizen. You looked so...Mexican?

Categorized under Migra | Tags: ALIENZ, borders, Immigration, migra

REMEMBER PEDRO GUZMAN? The (developmentally disabled) Mexican American that ICE wrongfully deported to Mexico, while claiming no wrongdoing? He's finally back home. Though a bit worse for the wear. A U.S. citizen who had been in the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department before he disappeared in...

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Cold as ICE

Categorized under Migra | Tags: Immigration

Grenier said state and federal authorities will investigate the death that occurred in ICE custody, but she could not say which agencies would be involved. Officials from the Rhode Island State Police and the state attorney general's office said yesterday that they were not investigating Araujo's death because "Who...

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19 de Julio, 2007

New Haven Leads the Way With Humane Treatment of Immigrants

Categorized under Migra | Tags: Change, Hope, hypocrisy, indigenous

IT DOES MY JADED HEART GOOD: New Haven, Conn. - At a time when a rising number of states and cities are cracking down on illegal immigrants, New Haven, Conn., is reaching out to them with a unique perk: an ID card. Besides serving as identification for bank services...

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15 de Julio, 2007

A Living Force, A Buying Force, A Voting Force

Categorized under Migra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Bill Richardson, Change, familia, Farming, Immigration, John McCain, Jon Kyl, Mexicans, migra

THESE DAYS, a good way to fall out of favor with the Reich Wing is to treat Mexican Migrant Homelanders (or "ALIENZ", "Migrant Homelanders" is my papás phrase) as if they are human beings. That is just not cool, and you will be castigated and cast out for it. Guess...

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22 de Junio, 2007

Chertoff Responds to Kerry, Spares Yaderlin Jiminez

Categorized under Migra | Tags: Hope, John Kerry, migra

THE CHEESE-EATING FRANCO earns his honorary zapata-stache today for coming to the aid of an ILLEEEEEGUL. (I know that the Jiminez's are from the Dominican Republic! But you can't expect me to give up an opportunity to put a sombrero on Kerry!) Even though the only news articles out...

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Poor Poconos Plastic Plant!

Categorized under Migra | Tags: hypocrisy, migra

HERE WE GO AGAIN. Another ICE raid. But this time, the story has been somewhat edited, and the roles recast. In today's hair-raising episode, the Dirty Mescans collude with an anonymous but evil Temp Employment Agency (as well as with Dirty Invaders from Indonesia, Malaysia and Ecuador) in an effort...

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14 de Junio, 2007

Enjoy Your Fruit Cup, Melting Pot

Categorized under Migra | Tags: migra

MORE ON THE PORTLAND RAID: This morning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the Fresh Del Monte Produce fruit and vegetable processing plant in Portland following a criminal investigation. Over 165 workers were caught up in the raid. About 30 have been released on humanitarian grounds. While we are...

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13 de Junio, 2007

La Migra Stink Up Portland Oregon

Categorized under Migra | Tags: borders, Mexicans, migra

NOT SO FAR FROM NEZUA, the long war continues: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal agents on Tuesday raided the offices of a Portland food processing plant suspected of employing hundreds of illegal workers who used Social Security numbers that belonged to other people or were made up. More than 165...

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31 de Mayo, 2007

Show Them the (Whitewashed) Liberty Door

Categorized under Cultura , Frontera , Migra | Tags: assimilation, Hope, migra, racism

A FANTASTIC POST from Laurafern, about her experience married to un migrante mexicano, and some realizations and fears and hopes she's having about life in America. The sad truth is that Fermin’s attitude reflected on things I wouldn’t have believed, that my pro-immigrant views are not the mainstream, that...

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23 de Mayo, 2007

Aliens Vs. Senators

Categorized under Humor , Migra | Tags: YouTube

THE DAILY SHOW. When I first saw a clip of them testing out the Mexican humor (and it was with Gonzales) it felt off to me, I posted on it (Seedy Gonzales and such, sorry no time for linkness). But I thought this clip was good, realigns the humor against...

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A Cage of Many Purposes

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Migra , Raza | Tags: Hutto, Soul of the World

OKAY, this has got to end. My blood is boiling and I am afraid to even hear the whole truth. Listen, I know I shouldn't be surprised that there are now allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the concentration camp known as Hutto. That doesn't mean I'm not...

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17 de Mayo, 2007

Yearning to Breathe Free

Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , Migra | Tags: Hope, Sanctuary Cities

OAKLAND AND SAN FRAN pull a Lady Liberty!: Oakland officials are reaffirming their city will remain a "city of refuge." Voting unanimously Tuesday night, the City Council adopted a resolution that forbids city employees or police officers from participating in immigration raids. The measure also broadens Oakland's 1986 "City...

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La Migra, Asparagus Killers

Categorized under Frontera , Migra | Tags: borders, migra, Migrant farmers

I WRITE OFTEN, and have recently, about this self-defeating dynamic America sees fit to practice in regard to brown immigrants from south of the "Border." And deeper yet, this...utterly disgusting and strange notion that America has nurtured in one form or another since the days of her Jamestown aspirations—this civilized/savage...

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16 de Mayo, 2007

Elvira and Saul Need Help - Stay of Deportation

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Migra | Tags: Elvira Arellano, migra

A CALL TO ACTION to residents of Califas, from a friend and activist LaVerdad regarding Elvira Arellano and her son Saul. If you live in California, please join with us on this. With this effort I do think we can make a difference—a huge difference—to this family, and also...

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15 de Mayo, 2007

Choppin' Off the Nose

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Migra | Tags: ALIENZ

LATINA LISTA talks about some of the first signs of how Ordinance 2903, passed Saturday in Farmer's Branch, Texas—and the first of its kind in the state—will affect similar communities: With the passage over the weekend of Ordinance 2903 that starting May 22 will fine landlords $500 a day for...

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5 de Mayo, 2007

Homeland Insecurity: Psychological Migra

Categorized under Migra , Raza , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: racism

MORE on the continuing double bind that today's Mexican Americans face. Appeal to us for our spending dollars, appeal to us for our votes while you exploit immigrants for the cheap labor and knowing they won't appeal to anyone when abused, use excessive police force both on the everyday...

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4 de Mayo, 2007

Aliens

Categorized under Migra , Poesía , Raza | Tags: ALIENZ, Mexicans, Mexico, migra

ALIENS they say pointing toward an imaginary fungal faultline perhaps riven across the glossy belly of a taco-shaped space ship on the horizon perhaps propped up by 4,437 spindly legs and most definitely painted with a black, curling mustachio somewhere somewhat shattered in the land of colonial hangover and vague...

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23 de Marzo, 2007

To Some, Hate is a Game

Categorized under Acción , Medios , Migra , Raza | Tags: borders, indigenous, Mexicans, racism

THE LINE BLURS between "Illegal Immigrant" and "Hispanic" because those who hate need no reason nor well-defined boundary for their hate. In fact, the nature of hate inherently resists as much. All that is needed are thinly-veiled justifications and mainstreamed channels through which the haters can ooze their spiritual...

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17 de Marzo, 2007

Please Help the Stranded Bedford Immigrant Children

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Migra , Raza | Tags: activism, borders, Child Abuse, Hope, Mexicans, migra, Soul of the World

FROM THE MIRA COALITION: There are between 150 and 200 niños (children) separated from their parents as a result of the March 6, 2007 Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raid on workers at a defense contractor in New Bedford, Massachusetts. MIRA members, staff, allies, families, neighbors and friends are doing...

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8 de Marzo, 2007

Babysitters Support the Troops

Categorized under Migra | Tags: Child Abuse, Hutto, Mexicans, migra

BUT WHEN MEXICANS TRY, they get busted. Another ICE raid on yet another factory being operated, in part, by Mexicans. Good, because our economy is so damn robust, we really need to slow it down. About 100 children were left stranded at schools and day care centres after their parents...

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1 de Marzo, 2007

anything is better than alien fruit salad

Categorized under Migra | Tags: Antepasados, borders, Criminal Justice System, Farming, indigenous, migra, Migrant farmers

SO WE BEGIN TO SEE the effects of persecuting and criminalizing migrant/immigrant farmers. Now that the crops are dying because we've imprisoned the hand that tends it, the State decides to pay prisoners to farm it. Thus bringin' tha Kaching in on the Mex from two directions at once....

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3 de Febrero, 2007

Palestinian Family Released from Hutto

Categorized under Migra | Tags: Hope, Hutto, migra

I'VE TALKED ABOUT the DHS/Swift/Hutto/Labor-busting raids that landed many Mexican families and their children in the Hutto Residential Prison or whatever cute nickname it's going by today. Many peeps in these parts of the cybergeography have been following these events. It was very emotional watching it all go down....

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5 de Enero, 2007

National Guard Runs From Unseen Mexicans

Categorized under Hipnotismo , Migra , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: border, Fear, hype, Mexicans, migra, national guard, propaganda

O, WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED that there is a bug-eyed fearcaster on the tube telling us that "according to the Border Patrol," a group of Dirtyboldcowardlymexicans forced US National Guardsmen to "retreat" from their post? Why am I not surprised that there is a link claiming the "Border...

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3 de Enero, 2007

White Fright

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Indígena , Migra , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: borders, Capitalism, False History, historia, hypocrisy, Imperialism, indigenous, Mexicans, Mexico, nafta, Obrador, pundits, Quintosol, racism, satire, The Haunted Land, The White Lens

IF THE SCARED EUROINVADER NATIVIST FREAK cannot kill more Indians (aka "Mexicans," etc) to make himself feel as if this "pristine" land his ancestors stole is a secure wedge of the European Manifested Destilicious Pie, he threatens to kill the other European Americans who may not share his same...

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25 de Diciembre, 2006

Building the TIA database: one baby at a time.

Categorized under Migra | Tags: Hutto, Police State

I CAN SEE WHY Hutto Prison would be fingerprinting Mexican babies. After all, it's a given that these children will at some point be drug dealers on our streets (...or the parents of a future Alberto Gonzales type of US employee), so we should make sure that we have...

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24 de Diciembre, 2006

Merry Christmas, Mexican Macacas

Categorized under Arte , Derechos Humanos , Migra , día festivo | Tags: fotoshop, Hutto, migra, Soul of the World

IT IS NO ACCIDENT that I have combined fotos/images/concepts from four different attacks on the Brown. It is in these "multiple theater" anti-brown moments that we can find cause to celebrate such a joyous Murkan Xmas. Merry Christ'sMask, little Macacas all over the world; you who have fallen under...

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23 de Diciembre, 2006

Christmas Eve Vigil for Prison Camp Children

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Migra , Raza | Tags:

THIS IS VERY SHORT NOTICE—I first saw it just moments ago in a comment thread at XP's jernt. But people are organizing a Christmas Eve Vigil for the inmate Mexican children being incarcerated right now at the Hutto Prison Camp in Texis. They are bringing strength, love, candles, and...

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22 de Diciembre, 2006

The Long War on Mexico

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Gobierno , Historia , Latin America , Migra , Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: assimilation, borders, gonzales, halliburton, Hutto, India, indigenous, Lou Dobbs, Mexicans, migra, NAFTA, Outsourcing, Police State, The White Lens

I'M FINDING these anti-Immigrant Detention and Terror Tactics very upsetting. Deeply disturbing. In a way I'm not sure Mr. Bush or perhaps many citizens even understand. Perhaps in a way not even some of my friends know. I know there are probably some American Mexican@s who don't feel as...

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15 de Diciembre, 2006

Dis-solutions to Unions

Categorized under Gobierno , Migra | Tags: Capitalism, hype, migra, workers

BETTER BELIEVE THAT people uniting is one story that el gobierno is not fond of. (They prefer tragedies)....

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I Pack the Meat That Todo el Mundo Eat

Categorized under Frontera , Humor , Migra , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: borders, migra, satire

SO THERE I WAS, doing what all the top-rated Mexican Americans do on a Wednesday, por supuesto. Just sort of lazily, self-indulgently and unproductively massaging my seductively oily forehead and leaning against a choice telephone pole on the corner. I thought to myself, "It sure would be nice if...

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14 de Diciembre, 2006

Rights to the Left of me, Torture to the Right

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Gobierno , Guerra