Staff, RestoreFairness.org AlterNet: Immigration. November 12, 2009. Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced back home.
Isabel Macdonald, AlterNet. October 20, 2009. Local community organizers are calling on the DHS to go further in stripping rogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s powers.
AlterNet AlterNet: ImmigrationAugust 27, 2009. ICE increased its presence in jails and prisons after 2001 as part of a plan to improve cooperation between federal, state and local authorities.
Aura Bogado, AlterNet. August 7, 2009. The South Louisiana Correctional Center has seen five hunger strikes in one month, as detainees are denied medical care and access to legal libraries.
New America MediaJuly 31, 2009. The federal government has not addressed the fact that there's a lack of immigration judges to hear the cases it's prosecuting.
Laura Flanders, AlterNet. July 30, 2009. While the media covers Obama, Crowley and Gates making up, sipping beer, the real issue is: Police who abuse power need to be reined in at once.
Richard Pates, AlterNet. May 12, 2009. Today is the first anniversary of the ICE raid on Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville. It's not the kind of anniversary you would want to celebrate
Marcelo Ballve, Mother Jones. April 2, 2009. Undocumented workers were the economic lifeblood of small towns like Postville, Iowa -- until the immigration cops showed up.
Paco Fabian, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 1, 2009. The Bush Administration focused its resources on undocumented workers rather than unscrupulous employers and dangerous criminals.
Marcelo Ballvé, New America Media. March 7, 2009. The hidden costs and other downsides of the program are not understood or are ignored by elected officials seeking to reap political dividends.
Nezua, Media Consortium AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 19, 2009. ICE's reach is growing and filling quotas has corrupted their purpose.
Marcelo Ballvé, New America Media. January 21, 2009. Immigrant advocates wasted no time in pressing their agenda of reform, organizing a march the day after President Obama's inauguration.
George Ciccariello-Maher, CounterPunch. December 26, 2008. Recently released statistics show violence against Latinos to be the fastest growing of all hate crimes.
Caitlin Price, Jurist Legal News and Research AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 4, 2008. The order denies collective bargaining rights to about 8,600 federal employees who work in agencies responsible for national security.
Suman Raghunathan, Feet in 2 Worlds AlterNet: PEEK. November 11, 2008. Myers leaves amid speculation that she was the source of the leak about the status of Obama's undocumented Kenyan aunt.
Staff, National Immigration Forum AlterNet: PEEK. November 11, 2008. The promise from Obama's transition team to strip away agency practices inconsistent with his vision of change comes not a moment too soon.
Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. October 30, 2008. Pastor Roberto Velez became a leader of an emerging Hispanic community in Mississippi after ICE arrested 595 workers at a local transformer plant.
