DREAM NOW LETTERS TO BARACK OBAMA: SAAD NABEEL
My name is Saad Nabeel and I am writing to you from Bangladesh. Prior to my arrival in this nation, I lived in the United States for 15 years. My parents brought me to America at age three. It is the only home I know. I used to attend the University of Texas at Arlington with a full scholarship in Electrical Engineering. Through no fault of my own I was forced to leave my home, friends, possessions, and most importantly, my education behind.
Justice Dept. files suit vs. junior colleges in Maricopa County
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Maricopa County Community College District on Monday, accusing it of discrimination for requiring extra paperwork from new employees who were not U.S. citizens.
Roberto Lovato: Latino Freedom Is Internet Freedom
Two separate, but intertwining trends -- the intense political activism of country's nearly 50 million Latinos and the historic fight to keep the internet as it is: free, flat and open-are fundamentally altering the meaning of freedom in the United States.
DREAM NOW LETTERS TO BARACK OBAMA: LIZBETH MATEO
My name is Lizbeth Mateo and I am undocumented. On May 17th, on the 56th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, I, along with Mohammad Abdollahi, Yahaira Carrillo and two others, became the first undocumented students to risk deportation by staging a sit-in inside Senator McCain's office in Tucson, Arizona, to demand the immediate passage of the DREAM Act. As a result of that sit-in we were arrested, turned over to ICE, and we now face deportation.
Feds sue Arizona sheriff in civil rights probe
02 September 2010
The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics. The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office's defiance "unprecedented," and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having English-only policies in his jails that discriminates against people with limited English skills. Arpaio had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents it first asked for 15 months ago.
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Janet Murguia: Latino Youths Have Their Say on Arizona and SB1070
02 September 2010
Students should be focused on getting back to school right now, not worrying about whether their parents will be targeted because they look Latino. Policies that target immigrants and their families have left Latino youth feeling anxious and frustrated, yet motivated to defend traditional American values such as fairness, freedom, and respect for diversity. Today, NCLR released A Wake-Up Call: Latino Youth Speak Out About Arizona SB 1070, the findings from a forum held in July with 150 Latino youth leaders about Arizona's anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, which is under temporary injunction but has been widely criticized by civil rights groups for attempting to legitimize and legalize racial profiling.
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Opinion: ‘Dreams in Arizona Have Been Swept Away’
02 September 2010
Imagine if an imagination was all you needed: to begin, to finish, to follow through. What if all your tomorrow consisted of was your development in thought from today? That’s where dreams come from… You think it in your head, you see it through your eyes, then show others through your action. And just like that, history repeats itself. Today is a good day to dream. If you don’t agree, try asking someone who can’t.
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When latino kids opened california´s schoolhouse doors
02 September 2010
A story lost from history books prompted an evening coffee house mix of three dozen college students and curious capital professionals — nearly all females — to listen intently as author Philippa Strum revisited the events behind Méndez v. Westminster, a California Ninth Judicial Circuit Court decision that preceded Topeka’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education by eight years. Strum’s PowerPoint presentation was a revelation for several Latino students unaware of the Mexican-American family that ended California’s schoolhouse segregation in 1946.
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Migrants say Arizona worth risk of crossing
02 September 2010
Hector Ortega stumbled across the body of a fellow migrant as he walked across Arizona's harsh desert in the searing summer heat. He tried not to look too closely. With nothing to be done for the deceased, Ortega and the others trudged on, guided by a smuggler across the U.S. border, determined to complete their illegal odyssey even as they endured record-high temperatures and fever-pitch resentment. At 64, the farm laborer with a weathered face, strong hands and silver hair protruding from his baseball cap was stoic about the body - someone's journey cut short near a stand of scrub bush and cactus.
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The administration’s cognitive dissonance on immigration
02 September 2010
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is indignant that the State Department submitted a report to the United Nations Council on Human Rights with a paragraph on her state's new immigration law. She's accusing the administration of "submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to 'review' by the United Nations" and of "internationalism run amok." And she's charging that it's hypocritical to single out the law while at the same time taking credit for "sophistication and breath of [the United States'] anti-trafficking efforts." It's a stretch to characterize the report as seeking international approval of domestic law.
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