Students walk out of UC San Diego teach-in
Los Angeles Times
The event was held in response to two recent racial incidents. But
minority students don't believe the university will take significant steps to
boost their numbers or improve conditions, one said.
February 25,
2010By Larry Gordon
Reporting from San Diego — A student walkout
Wednesday disrupted a UC San Diego teach-in that was intended to promote
tolerance in the wake of two recent racially charged incidents...link to
complete article
Showing posts with label Los Angeles Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Los Angeles Times. Show all posts
Monday, March 1, 2010
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Is there ever a right way to deport people?
The LA Times has published an editorial that is announcing there is actually such a thing as a "perfect immigration raid."
It also criticizes advocates who continue to speak against the raids: outraged immigration activists picketed ICE's downtown intake station
Like there is something wrong with being outraged.
Its a confusing environment. I had to fly to Washington, D.C. this morning. On way to the airport I saw a number of billboards in Spanish. I even saw one that was bi-lingual. Houston is full of Fiesta Stores - geared towards the Latino population. Clear Channel communications which owns many English language stations in the U.S. also owns a good share of those that broadcast in Spanish.
ICE does not check undocumented immigrants in the check out line at Walmart, Target, or Home Depot. It is ok to take in money from people that according to some, aren't supposed to be here. Yes, these same millions that are helping keep our economy afloat can drive outside the Walmart parking lot, get speeding tickets, or be fined for not making a complete stop at the red light or stop sign - and in a whiff they are on their way back to their countries of origin. In other words, the U.S. is telling them - give me your money - be a good consumer - but don't be surprised if we pick up your neighbor, or brother in law, or your wife - because it's ok for people without residency papers to spend money in the U.S. but its not ok for the same people to live here.
p.s. detaining and/or deporting people is never a humanitarian act - no matter how it is carried out. Remember the arguments that some people were "good slave owners?" - making bondage less objectionable - many people have responded to this saying bondage is never ok, even with a nice master.
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for link to LAT article click the title of this post
It also criticizes advocates who continue to speak against the raids: outraged immigration activists picketed ICE's downtown intake station
Like there is something wrong with being outraged.
Its a confusing environment. I had to fly to Washington, D.C. this morning. On way to the airport I saw a number of billboards in Spanish. I even saw one that was bi-lingual. Houston is full of Fiesta Stores - geared towards the Latino population. Clear Channel communications which owns many English language stations in the U.S. also owns a good share of those that broadcast in Spanish.
ICE does not check undocumented immigrants in the check out line at Walmart, Target, or Home Depot. It is ok to take in money from people that according to some, aren't supposed to be here. Yes, these same millions that are helping keep our economy afloat can drive outside the Walmart parking lot, get speeding tickets, or be fined for not making a complete stop at the red light or stop sign - and in a whiff they are on their way back to their countries of origin. In other words, the U.S. is telling them - give me your money - be a good consumer - but don't be surprised if we pick up your neighbor, or brother in law, or your wife - because it's ok for people without residency papers to spend money in the U.S. but its not ok for the same people to live here.
p.s. detaining and/or deporting people is never a humanitarian act - no matter how it is carried out. Remember the arguments that some people were "good slave owners?" - making bondage less objectionable - many people have responded to this saying bondage is never ok, even with a nice master.
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The right kind of immigration raid
Law enforcement and immigrant advocates are working together to make for kinder crackdowns.
April 3, 2008
Before U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took 144 men and women into custody at Micro Solutions Enterprises in Van Nuys a few weeks ago, the agency sent advance notice to civil rights groups. It put social service agencies on standby in case children whose parents were detained needed help. Once the suspected illegal immigrants were identified, ICE agents asked if they had chronic health conditions, child-care issues or other urgent personal situations. Those who did were released and given an order to appear in court at a later date. Lastly, ICE handed out a list of attorneys who would take cases pro bono.
It should have been the perfect immigration raid -- considerate, humanitarian, efficient, the agency's standard since the debacle in New Bedford, Mass., last year when children, including a breast-feeding baby, suffered when their parents were taken away for days. But the Van Nuys action still resulted in a lawsuit -- which led to progress. Lawyers waiting to assist the immigrants filed an injunction against ICE after they were stopped from accompanying the immigrants to interviews, a clear violation of the constitutional right to representation. ICE settled the suit several days ago, and since then attorney access has been smoother.
This is the reform of immigration enforcement far from the halls of Congress. It is being cobbled together bit by bit, with compromises, cooperation and confrontation by naturally opposing forces -- those charged with enforcing the law and deporting illegal immigrants and those who advocate on their behalf.
Tuesday afternoon, outraged immigration activists picketed ICE's downtown intake station, protesting the detention of about 30 suspected illegal immigrants taken in what they believed were "raids" on warehouses. Even a well-conducted raid is a hypocrisy, they said, illustrating contradictions between immigration enforcement policies and immigration law: A humane raid would not separate mothers from their young children for a long time, but the law allows the harsher separation of deportation.
It turns out, however, that the people picked up Tuesday were taken in routine port customs security inspections of freight warehouses. Those businesses have to comply with a lengthy list of security requirements, one of which is to not hire illegal immigrants, who are particular security risks because their status makes them vulnerable to coercion. All reasonable. So Wednesday morning, immigration advocates and ICE officials were on the phone together, examining and clarifying Tuesday's events -- and preparing for the next time.
for link to LAT article click the title of this post
Friday, March 28, 2008
An open letter to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times
It is reprehensible that you, as the most important newspaper media outlets in the country have not been informing the American people about the S.A.V.E. ACT (HB 4088) - that is currently being discussed in Congress.
There is no legitimate excuse for keeping this information a secret. Is your concern that if you publicize this, the nation will react with numerous protest marches (again)? Are you not wanting to receive the thousands of emails and phone calls from irate Americans who want all undocumented immigrants sent back to their home countries? Or are you worried about more death threats like the ones you received when you covered the congressional discussion on immigration last summer (2007)?
It is clear that one of the best ways to get an unethical bill passed is to keep it secret. You still have a chance to redeem yourself. Congress goes back into session in a few days - there is still time to send out your reporters. Just remember, if you let the S.A.V.E. ACT happen, you could get arrested for giving your babysitter a ride home.
Marie Theresa Hernandez
There is no legitimate excuse for keeping this information a secret. Is your concern that if you publicize this, the nation will react with numerous protest marches (again)? Are you not wanting to receive the thousands of emails and phone calls from irate Americans who want all undocumented immigrants sent back to their home countries? Or are you worried about more death threats like the ones you received when you covered the congressional discussion on immigration last summer (2007)?
It is clear that one of the best ways to get an unethical bill passed is to keep it secret. You still have a chance to redeem yourself. Congress goes back into session in a few days - there is still time to send out your reporters. Just remember, if you let the S.A.V.E. ACT happen, you could get arrested for giving your babysitter a ride home.
Marie Theresa Hernandez
Friday, December 28, 2007
A response to the LA Times editorial of December 28, 2007
Pide Los Angeles Times a aspirantes a presidencia abordar reforma migratoria
Agencias / La Jornada On Line
28 diciembre 2007
"Los indocumentados contribuyen más a EU (en forma fiscal y en asumir trabajos mal pagados y poco atractivos), que lo que le cuestan", consideró el diario.
San Diego. El diario Los Angeles Times pidió en su editorial de este viernes a los precandidatos presidenciales estadunidenses abordar la reforma migratoria como fórmula de bienestar para todos los estadunidenses.
"Los trabajadores indocumentados contribuyen más a la nación –en forma de impuestos y disposición para tomar trabajos mal pagados y poco atractivos-, que lo que le cuestan", declaró el rotativo.
Agregó que "los costos y beneficios" de esas aportaciones de los migrantes "están mal distribuidas. Los patrones y consumidores ganan por esos trabajos de bajos salarios, los gobiernos estatales y federal reciben los ingresos de sus impuestos".
Los Angeles Times opinó que sin una reforma migratoria las escuelas tienen que operar con programas especiales para niños que hablan idiomas distintos al inglés.
El cotidiano indicó que aunque muchos electores estadunidenses se expresan opuestos a otorgar servicios públicos a cerca de 12 millones de indocumentados, la mayoría desea una reforma migratoria que les permita la legalización y tener la ciudadanía estadunidense.
Por otra parte, los electores "no aceptan soluciones simplistas como una barda de la extensión de la frontera o que se tenga que usar alguna forma de identificación".
"Sólo (la pre candidata demócrata, Hillary) Clinton ha mencionado la idea de que el gobierno federal, que ha fallado en su trabajo de restringir la migración indocumentada y al mismo tiempo ha aceptado esos impuestos, pueda usar parte de ese dinero para compensar a las comunidades afectadas", agregó.
El periódico expresó que entre los pre candidatos republicanos hay una "competencia para probar quién es el más severo contra los migrantes indocumentados".
Añadió que sólo el ex alcalde de Nueva York, Rudolph Giuliani, y el senador de Arizona, John McCain, "siguen hablando de permitir a los indocumentados ganar la ciudadanía; los otros suponen que 12 millones de personas han vivido en el país y la mayoría trabajado sin aportar a su economía".
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2007/12/28/pide-los-angeles-times-a-precandidatos-presidenciales-abordar-reforma-migratoria
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