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Immigration News Stories – April 24

– April 24, 2012Posted in: Featured Events, Weekly Migration Update

The following list of news stories was compiled by Mike Poulin, Pastoral Minister at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic 

Church in Omaha, NE on behalf OTOC’s Immigration Action Committee and is for informational purposes only. This is not an endorsement of the authors, organizations, or views expressed in any of the articles mentioned below.

 

There has been a lot to post in the past few weeks. If there are items you are encountering that you think others would like to see your submissions are welcome. You can send them to me at poulinm@svdpomaha.org.
Mike

Item #1
This ad is running in Alabama in a faith based effort to urge reconsideration of their immigration law. It is well done and worth watching.

Item #2
What happens to immigrants who are detained but can’t be deported?

Item #3
In the future more voters will have close personal ties to immigrants.

Item #4
Sojourners has set up a comment page regarding the proposed changes to the 3 & 10 year bars (see last week’s posting). You can access it here

Item #5
You can join Detention Watch Network’s “Dignity Not Detention” Campaign by visiting here.

Item #6
Here’s more on the valedictorian from Florida who was facing deportation.

Item #7
This report on border security offers compelling information, including statistics and graphics. The executive summary is 4 pages. The full report is 62 pages.

Item #8
In case you were wondering whatever happened to the Minutemen, here is an update.

Item #9
Here is what FAIR has to say in support of Alabama’s immigration law.

Item #10
Here is a report on the border patrol in northern Washington.

Item #11
I don’t usually post items that I haven’t read/viewed, but this one looks interesting and I don’t have the time today. If you watch it please let me know what you think. It is Aljazeera English with a report on the business of immigrant detention in the U.S.

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Immigration News Stories – April 13

– April 13, 2012Posted in: Weekly Migration Update

The following list of news stories was compiled by Mike Poulin, Pastoral Minister at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic 

Church in Omaha, NE on behalf OTOC’s Immigration Action Committee and is for informational purposes only. This is not an endorsement of the authors, organizations, or views expressed in any of the articles mentioned below.

 

There has been a lot to post in the past few weeks. If there are items you are encountering that you think others would like to see your submissions are welcome. You can send them to me at poulinm@svdpomaha.org.
Mike

Item #1
The Omaha World Herald has run a series of articles on LB 599 in the unicameral. This is a link to Thursday’s article and in the sidebar on that page can be found links to stories from earlier in the week. As we await Wednesday’s vote to override the governor’s veto please write your state senator, thanking those who are supporting 599 and urging other to override the veto. Also, consider contacting the governor to tell him you do want our tax dollars to be spent on prenatal care for unborn immigrant children. He keeps saying all he hears is people complaining about helping immigrants. Let’s send him a different message!

Item #2
The Immigration Policy Center has published a Q & A guide to Arizona v. United States – What You Need to Know about the Supreme Court Case Over SB 1070. It is 12 pages, but an easy, informative read.

Item #3
Thousands of immigrant parents of U.S. citizen children were deported in the first half of 2011. What has happened to their children?

Item #4
The Alabama legislature ais considering changes to the state’s immigration law.

Item #5
Many of our practices towards immigrants are human rights abuses. Read a summary of a new report presented at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Item #6
A proposed change to the 3 and 10 year ban and bar rule.

Item #7
Mississippi’s immigration legislation died in committee last week.

Item #8
A little bit different than our typical posting. Very moving. A video letter sent from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Washington, D.C. featuring testimonies by Khmer Exiled Americans.

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Immigration News Stories – April 5

– April 5, 2012Posted in: Weekly Migration Update

The following list of news stories was compiled by Mike Poulin, Pastoral Minister at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic 

Church in Omaha, NE on behalf OTOC’s Immigration Action Committee and is for informational purposes only. This is not an endorsement of the authors, organizations, or views expressed in any of the articles mentioned below.

 

There has been a lot to post in the past few weeks. If there are items you are encountering that you think others would like to see your submissions are welcome. You can send them to me at poulinm@svdpomaha.org.
Mike

Item #1
Detention Watch Network responds to last week’s Congressional hearing on immigrant detention that was titled “Holiday on ICE.”

Item #2
The Department of Justice is not changing its practice of detaining asylum seekers.

Item #3
Even with new standards from ICE there is still not enough being done to protect the rights of immigrants in detention.

Item #4
Rep. Lofgren replies to Rep. Smith about detention.

Item #5
ICE’s review of existing deportation cases is expanding to 6 more cities. So far, only 8% of cases are being found eligible for prosecutorial discretion.

Item #6
Delays in the processing of visas are causing the loss of tourism dollars.

Item #7
There was more opposition to Arizona SB 1070 than support in the form of briefs to the Supreme Court.

Item #8
Mississippi farmers and law enforcement officers are urging law makers to let HB 488 die.

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Immigration News Stories – March 26

– March 26, 2012Posted in: Featured Events, Weekly Migration Update

The following list of news stories was compiled by Mike Poulin, Pastoral Minister at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic 

Church in Omaha, NE on behalf OTOC’s Immigration Action Committee and is for informational purposes only. This is not an endorsement of the authors, organizations, or views expressed in any of the articles mentioned below.

 

There has been a lot to post in the past few weeks. If there are items you are encountering that you think others would like to see your submissions are welcome. You can send them to me at poulinm@svdpomaha.org.
Mike

Item #1
End Child Detention has launched a new campaign. Included as resources for this campaign are short video interviews with children who have been detained in the U.S and other countries.

Item #2
Detention Watch Network put out this press release in regards to immigrant detention funds in the president’s fiscal year 2013 budget.

Item #3
What are the pros and cons of a new type of detention facility in Texas?

Item #4
Another ordinance that prevents undocumented immigrants from renting housing is struck down.

Item #5
Here is an update on nativist extremist groups from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Item #6
The Catholic Bishops have sent a new request for comprehensive immigration reform to Speaker of the House John Boehner.

Item #7
Even though more states are initiating anti-immigrant legislation, other states continue to propose tuition assistance for undocumented students.

Item #8
The Campaign for the American Dream – 6 young people walking across the country in support of the Dream Act.

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Immigration News Stories – March 19

– March 19, 2012Posted in: Featured Events, Formerly Featured Events, Weekly Migration Update

The following list of news stories was compiled by Mike Poulin, Pastoral Minister at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic 

Church in Omaha, NE on behalf OTOC’s Immigration Action Committee and is for informational purposes only. This is not an endorsement of the authors, organizations, or views expressed in any of the articles mentioned below.

 

There has been a lot to post in the past few weeks. If there are items you are encountering that you think others would like to see your submissions are welcome. You can send them to me at poulinm@svdpomaha.org.
Mike

Item #1
Here is an article on the numbers of people affected by DHS’ instruction on prosecutorial discretion. It includes good information on the process that immigrants who are potentially eligible for discretion in their deportation cases must go through to make it happen.

Item #2
National Coming Out of the Shadows is an annual event in Chicago. This article includes stories from this year.

Item #3
From the New York Times comes this editorial: “Immigration Detainees Get a ‘Better’ Prison.”

Item #4
The Immigration Policy Center has released a report that explores the value of the skills that immigrants bring to the workforce and challenges the assumptions about ‘low-skilled’ immigrant workers. The report is 5 pages.

Item #5
The Mississippi House passed HB 488 last week.

Item #6
One of the main sponsors of Alabama’s immigration bill lost his race to become the state’s Republican Congressional nominee.

Item #7
Immigration advocacy groups have filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against DHS seeking the release of information on the Criminal Alien Program.

Item #8
This video workshop is entitled “Detention of Immigrants: Enforcement, Non-compliance, and Punishment” by Dr. Dan Wilsher. It is 1 hour and 45 minutes in length. I have not viewed the presentation.

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