NEWS
Tucson Blocking Deportation Buses
Tucson Confronts Border PatrolEmergency Press Conference TODAY at noon
at Southside Presbyterian Church (317 W. 23rd St.). WHY: Four loving members of our community were taken by Police and Border Patrol collaboration: Agustin--a loving father and organizer with Corazón de Tucson, Rosa--a wonderful mother and community leader with Corazón de Tucson, Mari--an activist with Fortin de las Flores and UA grad student, and Arturo, a worker and community member. Please come out, bring friends and family, and forward! Account of last night's events: ...last night there was spontaneous resistance after Tucson Police pulled over a community member (Augustine, an active participant in Corazon de Tucson) for not having a license plate light, and then called the Border Patrol. This took place near Southside Presbyterian, at 10th Avenue and 22nd St. Neighbors, participants from Corazon de Tucson, the Southside Workers Center, and people from a Samaritans meeting at Southside joined hands to encircle the Border Patrol vehicle with the detainees inside and chanted Ni Uno Mas! After much conferring, officers manhandled the peaceful protesters aside, shoving some to the ground, but we tried to hold our circle firm. However, BP was able to drive the vehicle away. But moments later we heard that they had detained another community member (Rosita). So everyone ran to another BP vehicle in the middle of 10th Avenue, to encircle it to resist again. After a few minutes the TPD began spraying protesters with pepper spray and one officer was firing a gun at protesters with either rubber bullets or blanks. With this onslaught, the crowd pulled back, and began responding to people who were injured from the pepper spray. This morning ... we have word that Mari Galup is being charged with assaulting a federal officer and will be arraigned today at the DeConcini Federal Courthouse at 1pm. Please post, text, and call folks to come down and support her. If you know kind-hearted Mari, you know this is b.s. Another account: The neighborhood space at the corner of 23rd and 10th was defiled again by police stopping a couple supposedly for no light on the license plate. La Migra was called. The neighborhood, Corazon de Tucson, the day laborers and many Samaritans joined in surrounding the Border Patrol vehicle and chanting “Not One More” and “Si se puede.” Eventually approximately 28 BP and TPD vehicles with flashing lights and many officers brutally forced the protesters away from the vehicle and out of the street. Pepper spray, which only burned more severely when water was used to try to rinse it away, was used and several arrests were made. |
Federal Judge Bans ICE Detainers on Immigrants
Public News Service A federal judge has ordered ICE officials to stop requesting local jails to detain some prisoners set for release to determine their immigration status. Immigration Myths vs. Facts AFL-CIO (blog) A lot of alarming myths are being spread in this campaign season by candidates like Donald Trump who want to generate fear of immigrants and ... John Stoehr: Immigration boosts the bottom line CT Post Economists, liberal and conservative, conclude time and again that refugees and immigrants boost the economic growth of states that welcome them. A reminder from Arizona Latinos: 'Immigration is not the only issue that moves us.' WGBH News This election season, issues like US immigration and the United States border with Mexico have been pushed into international headlines. To the border: American lawyers take to road to help fleeingimmigrants get to new home As Central Americans continue to stream across the Mexican border into the United States, more and more immigration attorneys from around the ... County legal defender, immigrant rights advocate Garcia retiring Arizona activists protest Israeli firms militarizing the border Hundreds call for end to detention of immigrant families in South Texas Forum examines treatment of immigrants fleeing domestic violence Deputy blames Arizona sheriff for disobeying court over immigration sweeps Study: Private prison firms spend millions to ensure steady supply of undocumented immigrants Gaza in Arizona: How Israeli High-Tech Firms Will Up-Armor the US-Mexican Border Shakedown -- How Immigration Agencies KEEP Deportees Money ACLU finds overwhelming majority of immigrant detainees eligible for release MSNBC: All in America: Southside and the Sanctuary Movement Report: Border detainees subject to food, sleep deprivation Border Patrol's use of deadly force criticized in report More youths crossing U.S.-Mexico border alone Online Movie: Bodies on the Border Newsweek: Death in the Desert Arizona Approves Law that Might Give the Death Penalty to Traffickers of Undocumented Immigrants Dying in the desert in Maricopa County, Arizona Illegal Immigrants 'Surge' on Southern Border Ahead of 2016 Election - Washington Free Beacon Sessions: Obama Finally Acknowledged Illegal Immigration Is Skyrocketing, But That's 'Only Half ... - Daily Caller Demographic Trends of Children of Immigrants Urban Institute Children of immigrants make up one-quarter of all children and account for all growth in the child population between 2006 and 2014. Below, we ... The mental-health crisis among migrants [Is there a parallel with our undocumented people here?] Nature.com The refugees and migrants surging into Europe are suffering very high levels of psychiatric disorders. Researchers are struggling to help. |
