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November-December
2008 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly Digest
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November-December
2008 U.S.
Immigrant Alert! Newsletter
Published
by National Immigrant Solidarity Network
Please read the Newsletter:
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Newsletter/Nov-Dec08.pdf
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2008
Election and Beyond…. New Hope for Immigrant Rights Movement?
In This Issue:
1) 4/10-12 NISN National Grassroots Immigrant
Strategy Conference
2) Comprehensive Immigration Law Not Likely Before 2011
3) The Obama-Biden Plan on Immigration
4) U.S. Immigration News Briefs
5) Please Support NISN! Subscribe the Newsletter!
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Comprehensive Immigration Law Not Likely
Before 2011, but Other Changes Expected
Thursday, November 20, 2008
BNA DAILY REPORT FOR EXECUTIVES
Comprehensive immigration legislation is unlikely to pass before
2011, but changes in immigration policy are expected soon after
President-elect Obama takes office, speakers said at a Nov. 19 forum
sponsored by Cornell Law School.
Doris Meissner, senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute and
former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
said the presidential election provided Obama with a "mandate to
take action and make changes," including immigration reforms.
For the past eight years, the Bush administration has set out
general principles for immigration legislation and waited for Congress
to take action, Meissner said. An Obama administration will be
different, she said.
Obama's administration will lead an immigration legislation effort
by developing solutions and vetting ideas, Meissner said.
Due to the current state of the economy, when comprehensive
legislation is adopted it is unlikely the bill will include increased
levels of temporary worker visas, according to Meissner, Frank Sharry,
executive director of America's Voice, an immigrant rights
organization, and Jeanne Butterfield, executive director of the
American Immigration Lawyers Association.
According to the speakers, an immigration bill may be introduced in
the fall of 2009, but if it does not pass it is extremely unlikely
immigration will be addressed during the 2010 election year. At that
point, comprehensive immigration legislation will likely be taken up
again in 2011.
In the meantime, Obama is expected to set the tone of the
immigration debate, curtail worksite enforcement raids, and step up
the Labor Department's enforcement of worker protections.
Read the rest: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/cgi-bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=Issues&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=1033
11/20:
Comprehensive Immigration Law Not Likely Before 2011, but
Other Changes Expected
By BNA DAILY REPORT FOR EXECUTIVES
Comprehensive immigration legislation is
unlikely to pass before 2011, but changes in immigration
policy are expected soon after President-elect Obama takes
office, speakers said at a Nov. 19 forum sponsored by Cornell
Law School....
11/20:
Transition Team Names Members Of Immigration Policy Working
Group
By BNA DAILY REPORT FOR EXECUTIVES
T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Mariano-Florentino
"Tino" Cuellar were named to the immigration
"policy working group" to develop immigration policy
proposals and plans for the new administration,
President-elect Obama's transition team announced Nov. 19....
The
Obama-Biden Plan on Immigration
By From the official Barack Obama's
Presidential transition website - Change.gov
Create Secure Borders, Improve Our
Immigration System, Remove Incentives to Enter Illegally,
Bring People Out of the Shadows, Work with Mexico....
11/20:
Anti-Immigration Forces Ready to Challenge Obama
By Tom Barry - Americas Policy Program,
Center for International Policy
While pro-immigration groups are hailing
the Obama victory and the Latino turnout as a victory for
liberal immigration reform, immigration restrictionists are
reshaping their messaging for the Obama era....
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11/20:
L.A. to pay nearly $13 million over May Day Police Attack
Immigrants, sources say
By Joel Rubin - Los Angeles Times
The settlement would mark one of the
largest payouts ever made to resolve LAPD misconduct.
Department has sanctioned officers and trained force to
prevent another such incident....
11/19
Boston, MA: Settlement reached in Bianco case
By southcoasttoday.com
In its second major settlement in two
weeks, Michael Bianco Inc. has agreed to pay $850,000 in
unpaid overtime and wages to more than 750 workers, including
some who were arrested and deported following a massive
immigration raid at the former New Bedford military gear
factory....
11/19:
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano will head Homeland Security
By MIKE ALLEN - politico.com
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) has been
chosen to serve as secretary of the vast and troubled
Department of Homeland Security for President-elect Obama,
Democratic officials said. Napolitano is a border governor who
will now be responsible for immigration policy and border
security, which are part of Homeland Security's myriad
functions....
11/17:
SPLC Wins $2.5 Million Verdict Against Imperial Klans of
America
By Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
The Southern Poverty Law Center won a
crushing jury verdict against one of the nation's largest Klan
groups for its role in the brutal beating of a teenager at a
county fair in rural Kentucky....
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Recent Immigration News.. |
11/20: Anti-Immigration Forces
Ready to Challenge Obama
Tom Barry
Americas Policy Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
americas.irc-online.org
November 20, 2008
americas.irc-online.org Editor's note: This is
the third article in a three-part series on the post-election debate
on immigration reform. The first part is Both Sides of Immigration
Debate Retrench, the second is Identity Politics and the Latino
Payback on Immigration.
While pro-immigration groups are hailing the Obama victory and the
Latino turnout as a victory for liberal immigration reform,
immigration restrictionists are reshaping their messaging for the
Obama era. Although not thrilled with the prospect of an Obama
presidency, the restrictionists don't necessarily fear it. Some,
including NumbersUSA and the Federation for American Immigration
Reform (FAIR), already are trying to leverage Obama's promises to
protect workers and create jobs.
Given how successfully the restrictionist institutes in Washington
have tweaked their anti-immigration message in the Bush era to reflect
new citizen concerns about national security and the "rule of
law," it would behoove immigrant advocates and other supporters
of comprehensive immigration reform to pay more attention to what the
leading restrictionists are now saying.
During the campaign the anti-immigration groups despaired over the
prospect of either McCain or Obama. But now the two leading
restrictionist policy institutes, NumbersUSA and the Federation for
American Immigration Reform, point encouragingly to Obama's strong
positions in favor of employee verification and employer enforcement.
They have also been confident that the aggressive enforcement regime
instituted by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will
persist into the next administration, especially given the way that
many Democratic congressional representatives have supported increases
in the department's immigration-enforcement and border-control
budget.....
Read the rest: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/cgi-bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=Issues&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=1030
Please read the Nov-Dec 2008 Immigration
Newsletter: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Newsletter/Nov-Dec08.pdf
National Immigrant
Solidarity Network
4th National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference
April 10-12, 2009 UIC College of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Stop Immigrant Raids!
Support Immigrant Workers Rights!
Together We Build A New Immigrant Rights Movement!
Registration
Open! Student/Low-Income Specials!
Mark Your Calendar!
National Immigrant Solidarity
Network (NISN), the leading national immigrant activist
network, is calling for 4th National Grassroots Immigrant
Strategy Conference the weekend of April 10-12, 2009 at
Chicago, IL!
The conference will be our
strategy planning meeting for grassroots immigrant activists
looking 2009 and beyond. We want to send a clear
message to the Congress and our new President: Stop
Immigrant Raids! Support Immigrant Workers Rights!
- 2008 Elections and How It'll
Impact Immigrant Rights Movement
- Linking Immigrant Rights Movements with Other
Struggles
- Immigrant Raids, Detention & Deportation
- Immigrant Labor Campaigns and Day Labor Centers
- Housing, Education and Healthcare Rights for the
Immigrants
- No to the Border Wall and Militization of the
Border
- Strategic Resources for the Immigrant Activists
- Support Local Chicago Grassroots Immigrant Campaigns
- Building a Multi-ethnic, Multi-Constituents-Based
Immigrant Rights Movement
- Congressional Immigrant Legislation
- International Immigrant Rights Campaigns
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org/2009Conference/
e-mail: info@ImmigrantSolidarity.org
Phone: (202)595-8990
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Useful Immigrant Resources on
Detention and Deportation
Thanks for GREAT works from Detention Watch Network (DWN) to compiled
the following information, please visit DWN website: http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org
Tracking
ICE's Enforcement Agenda
Real
Deal fact sheet on detention
Real
Deal fact sheet on border
- From
Raids to Deportation-A Community Resource Kit
- Know Your Rights in the Community (English,
Spanish)
- Know
Your Rights in Detention
- Pre-Raid
Community Safety Plan
- Raids
to Deportation Map
- Raids
to Deportation Policy Map
More on
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http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/resource.htm
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